Night trains
Night trains from Moscow
4 sleeper routes · Russia
4 night trains serve Moscow in the TrainRouter atlas — sleeper routes to Vladivostok, Murmansk, Kazan, Saint Petersburg. The longest is the Trans-Siberian Railway at 9,289 km (≈ 7 days); the oldest service on this list has run since 1916. Board in the evening, wake up 9,289 km closer — every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
Trans-Siberian Railway
Moscow → Vladivostok · 9,289 km · ≈ 7 days · RZD · Rossiya № 1/2
The longest railway on Earth: 9,289 km, eight time zones and seven nights between Moscow and the Pacific.
Arktika
Moscow → Murmansk · 1,940 km · ≈ 35 h · RZD · Arktika № 16/15
Russia’s polar flagship crosses the Arctic Circle on the 1916 Murman railway — 35 hours north to a port where winter trains arrive in round-the-clock night.
Moscow–Kazan Double-Decker
Moscow → Kazan · 793 km · ≈ 11 h 30 min · RZD · Double-deck sleeper № 23/24
Two storeys of berths slip out of Kazansky station at 23:08 and pull in beneath the Tatar kremlin by breakfast — Russia’s double-deck night-train boom, eastbound.
Red Arrow
Moscow → Saint Petersburg · 650 km · ≈ 8 h · RZD · Krasnaya Strela № 1/2
Departing at 23:55 nightly since 1931 to the strains of ‘Hymn to the Great City’ — the crimson Soviet flagship that outlived the state that built it.
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