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Technical data

In 2005, 192,000 passengers were transported by train.

In 2011, eight reserved seat cars of the train were upgraded. The new cars have double-glazed windows, a modern air conditioning system, dry closets and electronic displays with information about the time, temperature in the car, and the operation of the toilet. The cost of new cars was about 239 million rubles. . From January 11 of the same year, the route route was significantly updated (the train was redirected through Gryazi-Voronezh, Povorino and Volgograd instead of Tambov and Saratov to replace the canceled trains Moscow - Volgograd and Volgograd - Astrakhan).

On January 15, 2013, due to the cancellation of fast train No. 93/94, the train was returned to its original route and put on the schedule of the canceled train in general circulation with passenger train No. Astrakhan", the composition of the train was transferred to the formation in Volgograd and linked to the general circulation with the train No. 1/2 "Volgograd" in the message Volgograd - Moscow.

Train layout

Ordinal wagon number	Wagon type	Points of contact wagon	Number of places	Note
1f	PL	Moscow - Saratov	52/2	In circulation four trailer groups LHF-15 Volgograd Prev. FPC branch
2f	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
3	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
4	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
5	TO	-»-	34/4	-»-
6	TO	-»-	34/4	-»-
7f	TO	-»-	34/4	-»-
8f	TO	-»-	34/4	-»-
9f	TO	-»-	34/4	-»-
10f	PL	Moscow - Astrakhan	52/2	In circulation four trains LVCh-15 Volgograd Pref. FPC branch. In general turnover with by train No. 1/2 Volgograd - Moscow
11f	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
12f	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
13f	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
14f	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
15f	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
16	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
17	PL	-»-	52/2	-»-
41	VR	-»-	-	-»-
18	KRI	-»-	14/12	-»-
19e	TO	-»-	34/4	-»-
20fb	SW	-»-	18	-»-
21f	TO	-»-	34/4	-»-

Itinerary

For more than forty years of the history of the train, its route has changed several times. Only the final points of the route remained unchanged. The modern route passes through Saratov.

Departure from Astrakhan 1 station at 14:45 - Arrival at Paveletsky railway station at 19:10.

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- These are stupid orders; they don’t know what they are doing,” the officer said and drove off.
Then a general drove by and angrily shouted something not in Russian.
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- At the ninth hour it was ordered to be on the spot, but we didn’t get even half. Here are the orders! – repeated from different sides.
And the feeling of energy with which the troops went into action began to turn into annoyance and anger at the stupid orders and at the Germans.
The reason for the confusion was that during the movement of the Austrian cavalry, marching on the left flank, the higher authorities found that our center was too far from the right flank, and the entire cavalry was ordered to move to the right side. Several thousand cavalry advanced ahead of the infantry, and the infantry had to wait.
Ahead there was a clash between an Austrian column leader and a Russian general. The Russian general shouted, demanding that the cavalry be stopped; the Austrian argued that it was not he who was to blame, but the higher authorities. Meanwhile, the troops stood, bored and discouraged. After an hour's delay, the troops finally moved on and began to descend downhill. The mist that dispersed on the mountain only spread thicker in the lower parts, where the troops descended. Ahead, in the fog, one shot, another shot rang out, at first awkwardly at different intervals: a draft ... tat, and then more and more smoothly and more often, and the affair over the Goldbach River began.
Not expecting to meet the enemy below over the river and accidentally stumbling upon him in the fog, not hearing a word of inspiration from the highest commanders, with the consciousness spreading through the troops that it was too late, and, most importantly, in thick fog not seeing anything ahead and around them, the Russians lazily and slowly exchanged fire with the enemy, moved forward and stopped again, not receiving orders during the time from the commanders and adjutants, who wandered through the fog in an unfamiliar area, not finding their troops. Thus began the case for the first, second and third columns, which went down. The fourth column, with which Kutuzov himself was, stood on the Pratsen Heights.
There was still thick fog downstairs, where the action had begun, and it cleared up above, but nothing of what was going on ahead could be seen. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we assumed, ten miles away from us, or whether he was here, in this line of fog, no one knew until the ninth hour.
It was 9 o'clock in the morning. Fog spread like a continuous sea along the bottom, but near the village of Shlapanitsa, at the height on which Napoleon stood, surrounded by his marshals, it was completely light. Above him was a clear, blue sky, and a huge ball of the sun, like a huge hollow crimson float, swayed on the surface of a milky sea of fog. Not only all the French troops, but Napoleon himself with his headquarters were not on the other side of the streams and the lower villages of Sokolnits and Shlapanits, behind which we intended to take a position and start business, but on this side, so close to our troops that Napoleon with a simple eye could in our army to distinguish horse from foot. Napoleon stood a little ahead of his marshals on a small gray Arabian horse, in a blue greatcoat, in the same one in which he made the Italian campaign. He silently peered into the hills, which seemed to emerge from a sea of fog, and along which Russian troops were moving in the distance, and listened to the sounds of shooting in the hollow. At that time, his still thin face did not move a single muscle; shining eyes were fixed fixedly on one place. His guesses turned out to be correct. Part of the Russian troops had already descended into the hollow to the ponds and lakes, partly they were clearing those Pratsensky heights, which he intended to attack and considered the key to the position. In the midst of the fog, in the deepening made up of two mountains near the village of Prats, Russian columns were moving all in the same direction towards the hollows, flashing their bayonets, and one after another they were hiding in a sea of fog. According to the information he had received in the evening, from the sounds of wheels and steps heard at night at outposts, from the disorderly movement of Russian columns, according to all assumptions, he clearly saw that the Allies considered him far ahead of them, that the columns moving near Pratsen constituted the center of the Russian army, and that the center is already sufficiently weakened to successfully attack it. But he still hasn't started the business.

I use this Lotus train every year, for more than 30 years, to visit my grandmother. In my "town" the train stops only 3 minutes - just have time to jump in and out with bags when the platform is very low from the snow, but the train is not to blame for this.

Lotus is one of the oldest branded trains that ran in the direction of Astrakhan - Moscow and back in the Soviet Union, and continues to do so today. It is named after the Astrakhan lotus water lilies.

Now I have come home to Moscow and I am writing to you, this time having been in a reserved seat car on the way there, and in a compartment on the way back.

Very lucky there - it's winter now south direction not popular econom-class train was almost empty, only the lower seats were occupied, not a single upper and not a single side. Despite regular reserved seat, amazing new clean bio-toilets, new elastic gray mattresses, still friendly guides and the same "samovar" with boiling water. The toilet is only at the end of the car, in front there was only a pantry. The fire was good, but not hot. New seats - Lotus lived up to its "brand name", but I liked it less in the coupe.

Despite the fact that it is a compartment - for example, a huge toilet at the end of the car instead of a whole compartment, as well as a compartment for the disabled, the car itself is less new. This was evident in the state of the toilet, in the strokes of the handle from someone's children, who do not buy an easel, and also by the smell. We were fed in a compartment to choose from, either chicken with rice, or meat with buckwheat. At first they brought just a box with water and cutlery, then hot - a little, but tasty, I chose chicken with rice. Previously, they fed better on Lotus - they even gave yogurt and 2 buns for breakfast.

The train is good, but still long - for example, in Saratov it costs 48 minutes, and in Michurinsk - 32. In Michurinsk, the train is changing the locomotive - the electric locomotive from Moscow can no longer be powered by electricity in Russia, it is replaced by an ordinary diesel locomotive. And the train starts moving in the opposite direction. But why in Saratov to stand for almost an hour, I don’t know, only 2 cars were attached, nothing special happens there, Saratov is not Moscow, people don’t stand in traffic jams for 2 hours and come to the beginning of boarding.

It is always interesting in Tambov - the parking lot is short, but there are scenes - because of the village of Zeleny with a prison, you can often see both prisoners and escorts who get off at the Tambov station. We build, not looking anywhere. The picture is terrible, but this is life.

The beds are excellent both in the compartment and in the reserved seat, white, starched linen. At the same time, in the reserved seat there was just a second sheet and checkered woolen blankets, and in the compartment - quilted gray blankets and a duvet cover. You don’t have to hand over anything, there are no these races with counting towels. I usually take the first compartment and 1 seat downstairs near the conductor - closer to the conductor - fewer scandals, requests to give in, because they have children, away from the vestibule and a distant toilet.

The glasses are now in the Russian Railways cup holder, but thin, tea and coffee at the conductor for 30 rubles, although, for example, in others I met 50.

Now they don’t wear anything, except for a basket from the dining car, but before they wore scarves and socks - now they drive.

Very efficient communication "with the ground" - we had only passengers drinking beer and always occupying the toilet, at the Saratov station 3 employees approached the car straight to the car asking if everything was in order in our car and if we needed a doctor. The police walk around the carriages at night quietly and with a flashlight.

Now the schedule has been changed for the train, it arrives in Moscow from Astrakhan at 14:37, it became uncomfortable for many, the middle of the day, and not in the morning, and not at night to the hotel, but to Moscow the train is just packed - everyone goes to work, and someone then just through Moscow on a watch.

So far, there is no replacement for this particular train, since not everywhere there is an airport, so with pricing policy I have to agree - 3300 for a reserved seat for more than 900 kilometers - it's not expensive.

"Lotos" - fast branded passenger train, owned by JSC "Federal Passenger Company". It runs on the route Astrakhan - Moscow - Astrakhan. The train was first launched in 1970, but only 22 years later Lotos received the honorary status of a Russian Railways branded train.

The route of the branded train "Lotos"

During its long period of operation, the train changed its route several times. The most popular were two directions: through Tambov and Saratov, as well as through Povorino and Volgograd, which diverged within the Michurinsky junction and joined in Upper Baskunchak.

Today, the train runs daily on the route Astrakhan - Moscow and back. The train number 005G departs from Paveletsky railway station capital, and arrives at the Astrakhan-1 station. In the opposite direction, the composition changes the number to 005Ж.

"Lotos" train: timetable

Signature train Lotus No. 005G leaves Moscow at 23:59 and arrives in Astrakhan at 05:30. On the way, the train stops at 29 stations. The longest stop at the Saratov-1 Passenger station is 48 minutes. In the opposite direction, train No. 005Ж leaves Astrakhan at 10:40 and arrives in Moscow at 14:37.

Travel time:

from Moscow to Astrakhan - 28 hours 15 minutes;
from Astrakhan to Moscow - 30 hours 3 minutes.

The table shows the current schedule of the Lotos branded train (Moscow time):

Train "Lotos" Astrakhan - Moscow: rolling stock scheme

Branded train "Lotus" includes:

compartment wagons;
staff car (with a seat for a passenger with disabilities);
econom-class train;
dining car.

The current train was formed by combining Lotos with one of the modern trains that previously ran on the Saratov - Moscow route. Since December 2017, its part has been hitched in Saratov to the tail, and in Moscow - to head part composition of "Lotus". Astrakhan reaches 6-9 passenger cars and 1 dining car.

Signature train "Lotus": class of service

Train "Lotus" offers passengers high level comfort and service. Each wagon will delight you with a modern interior, and the dining car with a varied menu. They are equipped with:

air conditioners;
dry closets;
energy-saving lamps;
information boards;
electrical outlets.

Passengers of compartment cars are also provided with snow-white bed linen, fresh press and travel hygiene kit.

The cost of a ticket for the branded train "Lotos"

The train on the route Astrakhan - Moscow - Astrakhan participates in the dynamic pricing program: the higher the demand for the flight, the more expensive ticket. The price also depends on the season of the year: in winter - lower, in summer - higher. If you book your ticket in advance, you can save up to half of the ticket price.

Tickets are sold 90 days before the departure of the branded train. The price of a ticket for the train 005Ж "Lotos" in a reserved seat car is from 3598 rubles, in a compartment - from 5096 rubles.

You can buy a ticket for the Lotos branded train at the railway station ticket office or online on our website - the official partner of Russian Railways.

Branded train "Lotus". Corridor.

Branded train "Lotus". Wagon restaurant

About the Lotos train

The train "Lotos" runs on the route Moscow - Astrakhan.

The average cost of a ticket for the Lotos train is 2,884 rubles, of which:

a ticket for a compartment car costs an average of 2,884 rubles.

Train history and interesting facts

Fast branded train "Lotus"

"Lotus"(No. 005G / 005Zh) - fast branded train of Russian Railways, which has been running on the route Moscow - Astrakhan daily since 1970. It is one of the oldest in the Russian railway and in 2010 celebrated its 40th anniversary.
The train "Lotos" received the brand name category in 1992 and since then it has absolutely met all the requirements for branded trains. The train includes new modern wagons equipped with more comfortable shelves, dry closets, air conditioners and other important comfortable travel innovations.

The Lotos train runs according to the schedule, which you will find below.
The train goes through the following stations: Upper Baskunchak, Pallasovka, Krasny Kut, Urbakh, Saratov, Rtishchevo, Tambov, Michurinsk, Pavelets, Uzunovo.

Composition of the train "Lotus":

reserved seat cars;
CB cars;
compartment cars (business class and economy class);
command car;
dining car.

Train tickets "Lotos":

Train tickets go on sale 45 days before the train's departure.
This train can be issued electronic registration, which makes it possible to board a train without a paper ticket.
Tickets are subject to all discounts and seasonal coefficients.
When buying a ticket, you can choose between "male" and "female" compartments.
Since March 1, 2011, the "brand name" category has been removed for tickets in compartments for the disabled on branded trains, which means that you can buy a ticket cheaper!

Interesting Facts:

The train is named after the flower of the same name, which grows in abundance in the Volga River Delta, in the Astrakhan Reserve and is the pride of this region.
The lotus symbolizes the desire for light - and this is perfectly reflected in the interior of the train - calm lights and colors of decoration, light curtains, patterns as decoration.
In 2005, the new form of train conductors was recognized as the best at the All-Russian competition of Russian Railways conductors.

Why choose the Lotos train:

Traveling on branded trains is much more comfortable than on regular ones, because the level of noise and vibrations is somewhat lower here, which is especially important on night trains. In addition, there are double-glazed windows on the windows, which not only maintain the internal climate, but also do not let in excess noise.
The interiors of the train have a common color scheme - these are delicate blue, purple, turquoise tones. Interior decoration is made using only environmentally friendly materials.
On the Lotos train, professional conductors are always waiting for you, having a solid work experience not only on the railway, but also directly in branded trains.
All train cars are new, so modern climate systems are installed here, which can both heat and cool the room to a comfortable temperature. According to the standards of branded trains, the temperature in the car interior in winter is 18-22 degrees, in summer - 22-26 degrees.
Each carriage of the branded train "Lotos" has new dual vacuum-type dry closets, which are open throughout the trip, including at stops. There are always paper towels and toilet paper, liquid soap and air freshener.
At the end of each car there is an information board, which broadcasts travel information around the clock.
Also in the staff car there is a household compartment, which has everything you need to put your personal belongings in order - for example, to clean shoes and iron clothes, there is also a set with threads and needles.
The cars are characterized by a special level of comfort: there are sofas with a pile coating, and the lower shelves are transformers. Each compartment has a button to call the conductor. In addition, passengers of compartment cars have the opportunity to use the refrigerator and microwave oven located in the compartment of the conductors.
There is also a shower!
The train "Lotos" has a baggage car for the transportation of bulky items.

Safety:

The carriages are equipped with fire alarms and fire extinguishing systems.
The train "Lotus" is accompanied by transport guards.
There is 24-hour video surveillance in the carriage corridors.

Free services for passengers of the train "Lotos":

delivery of tea or coffee at any time of the day;
cold boiled water in any quantity;
a set of bed linen (for SV passengers);
a set of essentials (for passengers in the van): soap, handkerchiefs, a toothbrush in an individual package, a sachet with toothpaste, a toothpick with a thread, a shoehorn and a napkin for shoes, wet and paper napkins, a comb, a cosmetic bag;
making and cleaning beds;
providing seat belts for those traveling on the upper berths;
board games and newspapers (for passengers in the ST).

Paid services of the branded train "Lotos":

tea, coffee, honey, confectionery, soft drinks;
use of a household compartment (shower, ironing facilities);
press and goods for children.

Dining car:
The dining car is decorated in modern fashion, everything here serves the comfort of passengers. In the restaurant you can dine and just have a good time with a cup of coffee and casual conversations.
During Lent, there is a separate lenten menu. Well, on a separate order, the train chefs will prepare vegetarian or children's meals for you.
Passengers of SV and business class carriages have the opportunity to order dinner in a compartment.

For passengers with disabilities:

The lift will help wheelchairs to climb into the car.
The staff car has a spacious two-seat compartment.
Special belts in the compartment help to change without assistance.
Shelves-transformers are installed in any inclined position.
Special tables are allocated in the salon of the dining car to serve passengers with disabilities.
All switches and outlets are low-lying and signed with embossed finger-readable text. You can also listen to the necessary information by pressing the button.
In the compartment, a "passenger - conductor" connection is established.

We wish you pleasant travels on the branded train "Lotos"!