After a four-year break, the passenger train service on the Tashkent-Moscow-Tashkent route has resumed.
The service reopened this week, with passenger trains now departing from Tashkent and back from Moscow once a week.
The first Tashkent-Moscow train departed from Tashkent’s central railway station on September 24, and is scheduled to arrive at the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow on September 27.
Passenger train service on the Bishkek-Moscow route will resume in 2025.
The passenger train between Bishkek and Moscow has been out of operation since the COVID-19 pandemic. After the pandemic, trains from Bishkek and the Russian city of Samara resumed.
Passenger trains to Moscow were temporarily suspended from Bishkek and other Eurasian countries due to a large-scale reconstruction of the Moscow railway junction that began after the pandemic.
Relatively cheap railway service to Moscow (compared to air transport) is essential for Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, as hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz and Uzbek labor migrants work in Russia.
