The first passenger train from North Korea arrived at Yaroslavsky railway station in five years

The Pyongyang—Moscow train, which resumed running after a five-year hiatus, arrived on Wednesday, June 25, at Yaroslavsky Railway Station in the capital.

It is specified that the train will run twice a month, the travel time is just over 8 days.

Non-stop carriages run with stops at Khasan, Ussuriysk, Khabarovsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk stations. The cost of travel along the full route is over 44 thousand rubles.

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Earlier, on June 9, the press service of the Russian Railways (RZD) announced the restoration of direct railway links Pyongyang — Moscow and Pyongyang — Khabarovsk. At that time, Russian Railways stressed that train services from Russia to the DPRK were suspended due to COVID-19 in February 2020.