The Aurora train set off with a record number of passengers.

Double-decker high-speed train No. 744 Aurora with an 18-car train set off for St. Petersburg from Leningradsky Railway Station in Moscow.

As noted in the press service of Russian Railways TASS, the train will carry more than 1.5 thousand passengers. It can get into the Russian Book of records in the category of "Regular train with the largest number of passenger seats."

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On May 23, Oleg Belozerov, CEO of Russian Railways holding, at a meeting with Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said that last year the maximum passenger traffic was reached - more than 1.2 billion people, of which 124 million were domestic passengers. According to him, the volume of container traffic increased by almost 6% and amounted to 7.88 million units, and transit shipments in the West—East direction take place on average in 7.7 days.