Sobyanin announced a 5-fold increase in the number of passengers between Moscow and St. Petersburg with the opening of the High-Speed Railway

The number of passengers between Moscow and St. Petersburg will increase 4-5 times after the construction of a high-speed railroad (HSR). This was announced by the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin on December 4.

"The time to get from Moscow to St. Petersburg is halved. And the number of passengers that the line is expected to carry, compared to what we have today, should increase by 4-5 times, that is, it is a completely different volume of transportation," he said on air of TV channel Moscow 24.

According to Sobyanin, the increase in the flow of passengers is natural, since the Moscow and St. Petersburg union of cities includes about 40 million residents.

The High-Speed Railway is an electrified double-track railway line for operation of trains with speeds from 200 to 400 km/h.

On November 8, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev said that the high-speed rail line between Moscow and St. Petersburg is planned to run 41 trains manufactured in Russia in 2028.

Earlier, on September 24, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Dmitry Zverev said that the price of a ticket for the Moscow - St. Petersburg High-Speed Railway is expected to be 8.9 thousand rubles at the start of the movement in the third quarter of 2028.

Theidea of building an HSM between Moscow and St. Petersburg was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin last August at the opening ceremony of the capital's MCD-3. He pointed out that the travel time along such a highway would be 2 hours and 15 minutes instead of the current four hours.