How to buy tickets for K3 international train? What are the stops passing by?

The K3 train departing from Beijing, crossing the Siberian Plain, and heading to Moscow has always been very popular. It opened on June 4, 1959 and has never stopped running for half a century.

The K3 train runs through the Eurasian continent, passing through China, Mongolia, and Russia, with a total distance of 7,692 kilometers. It is the longest passenger train in the history of Chinese railways.

The train from Beijing to Moscow departs from Beijing Station every Wednesday, passes through Mongolia, runs for 131 hours and 31 minutes, and arrives at Moscow Yaroslavl Station on Monday.

The train from Moscow to Beijing departs from Moscow Yaroslavl Station every Tuesday, runs for 129 hours and 40 minutes, and arrives at Beijing Station on Monday.

Passport and visa

Russian visa

The Taobao price of Russian visa is about 688 yuan, nine The visa is issued on working days (note that it is a working day). For expedited processing, an additional 300 yuan is required, and the visa is issued in 3-4 working days. If you apply by yourself, you need an invitation letter. You can ask for the invitation letter from the hotel you have booked.

Required materials: Original passport, 2 recent 2-inch color photos with white background in the past six months (35mm*45mm), copy of ID card, and personal information form.

Since you are entering the country by train, you need to calculate the entry time. The entry time is actually the arrival time, so you need to pay attention to it.

Mongolia visa

250 yuan, expedited application 315 yuan (the price is adjusted up or down according to the exchange rate) 3 working days to issue the visa

Processed every day The visa application time can only be in the morning, and the visa collection time can only be in the afternoon.

The Mongolian visa takes effect on the date of issuance, is valid for three months, and can stay up to ten days.

Application address:

No. 2, Xiushui North Street, Jianguomenwai, Beijing, China (get off at Yonganli, Metro Line 1)

Ticket price

From Beijing to Moscow, the high package price is 5604 yuan, the hard sleeper ticket is 3496 yuan, the high package group ticket is 4460 yuan, and the hard sleeper group ticket is 2728 yuan. If you gather six people, you can buy a group ticket.

Purchase address

China International Travel Service International Railway Transport Center

Address: 1st Floor, Beijing International Hotel, No. 9 Jianguomennei Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing

Tel: 010-65120507

Fax: 010-65120503

Sina Weibo: China CITS Railway Transport

Working hours:

< p> Monday---Friday 09:00-12:00 13:30-17:00

Saturday 09:00-12:00 closed in the afternoon

Closed all day on Sunday

Passing stations

Jining, Erenhot, Zamyn-Uud, Ulaanbaatar, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and other stations.

For the train timetable, please refer to the following website: cn.com/64870/n567646

Train formation:

High-class cabin (two-person private room), soft sleeper (private room for four people), hard sleeper (private room for four people)

Starting from Ulan-Ude on Friday, the calculation is based on Moscow time. Since Moscow time is five hours earlier than Beijing time, So although the timetable says we arrived at 02:14, we actually didn’t arrive until after 7am.

But there is no time difference between places like Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk and Beijing.