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Staying with friends, late flight or train leaving at three in the morning? We tell you how to get from one end of the city to the other at night using public transport.

Every night - from 00:00 to 05:30 - buses and trams take to the streets on 10 routes: nine buses and one tram. There are also 24-hour routes. Usually the service interval is half an hour, only bus B runs every 15 minutes at night.

They all intersect with each other in convenient places and run along main roads and metro lines. Thus, late passengers can get to their home at the other end of the city, train stations or airports.

How to get there, where to change trains?

The common interchange hub for night buses H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 and M7 is located on Slavyanskaya Square near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. Other routes intersect with them along the way.

You can take the H1 bus, which runs from 00:00 to 05:00, from Ozernaya Street in the south of Moscow to Sheremetyevo Airport. Along the way, you can get off at the Yugo-Zapadnaya, Leninsky Prospekt, Lubyanka, Kitay-Gorod, Tverskaya, Mayakovskaya and Belorusskaya metro stations. Further the route goes along Leningradsky Prospekt parallel to the green metro line.

Route H2 (00:00-05:30) connects the center with Kutuzovsky Prospekt and Mozhaisk Highway, and bus route H3 (00:00-05:30) runs from the Kitay-Gorod station to Ussuriyskaya Street parallel to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya metro line .

By bus H4 (00:00-05:30) you can travel from the center to the Novokosino district in the east of the capital.

Buses N5 (23:35-06:00) run from the Kitay-Gorod metro station to the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Kashirskoye Shosse. Along the way there are the Taganskaya, Kuzminki and Tekstilshchiki stations, and then the bus turns south to Maryin and Domodedovskaya.

By bus N6 you can get from the Kitai-gorod metro station to the northern stations of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line and Ostashkovskaya street. There is also a 24-hour bus number 15 in Moscow. It runs from the VDNH metro station through the center to the Novodevichy Convent.

Bus B runs around the clock on the outer and inner sides of the Garden Ring, and bus M7 runs from Lubyanka through Kitay-Gorod to Vykhino.

Night tram number 3 can be used from 01:00 to 05:30. It runs from the Chistye Prudy metro station past Paveletsky station, "Tulskaya" and the ZIL platform to Akademika Yangelya Street in South Chertanovo. During the daytime, tram No. 3 runs from the Chistye Prudy metro station to Balaklavsky Prospekt.

Simple and convenient

Travel on night transport in the capital is paid for with regular city tickets “United”, “90 minutes”, “TAT”, and a “Troika” card. Cost - from 55 to 65 rubles. All established benefits apply on buses, trolleybuses and trams.

By the way, since the beginning of summer, the number of passengers on night flights has increased by 20 percent compared to the spring months. Since June, about 250 thousand people have already used night routes.

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For several years, a meme picture has been circulating on the Internet - the emotional, obscene impressions of a provincial from Moscow. Among them is the phrase: “Bus 483, what a number!” The logic behind the numbering of urban transport is indeed not always obvious. The Village found out on what basis numbers are assigned to buses, trolleybuses and trams.

Press service of State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans"

All routes of urban passenger transport in the capital have single-digit, two-digit and three-digit numbers. This numbering has developed historically and does not change. On new routes, vehicles are assigned new numbers or numbers of previously canceled routes. All numbering is individual, but there are also coincidences: routes of different modes of transport can be designated the same way. So, tram No. 3, trolleybus No. 3 and bus No. 3 travel around the city, but they all follow different routes.

There is no need to assign four-digit numbers to new routes yet. There are, however, bus routes No. 1001, 1002 and 1004, which previously belonged to commercial carriers. In 2013, they were transferred to the management of Mosgortrans; for the convenience of passengers, the numbers were not changed.

Sometimes the specifics of a particular route are taken into account when numbering. For example, in Moscow there are several “social” directions of movement; they cover institutions of education, medicine, and social protection. The numbers of such routes begin with the letter C: C1, C2 and so on. There are also night routes of ground urban transport, these are buses No. H1, H2, H3. Letters are also used for shortened flights: they duplicate the busiest sections of the route. To make it easier for passengers to navigate, when entering such a route, the letter “k” (short) is added to the main number. There are, for example, bus route No. 709, which goes from the Orekhovo metro station to the Kashirskaya metro station, and there is No. 709k, which goes from the Orekhovo metro station to the Moskvorechye platform.

Konstantin Trofimenko

Director of the Center for Research on Transport Problems of Megacities at the Higher School of Economics

There is no special transport numbering system in Moscow - it is a wild mixture between route numbers from a hundred years ago, Stalin's, Brezhnev's and numbers from the 1990s. They all layered on top of each other.

There are also routes that are designated using letters. This may be a consequence of the fact that the transport route was once divided into two parts. It also happens that the route branches: the vehicle follows the route, and then its version, with the letter A added to its numbering, turns right. The option without such a letter continues to follow straight. All this, of course, causes confusion. City navigation is absolutely not user-friendly. If a person does not specialize in this topic, he is unlikely to know about any routes other than those that he needs.

IN Soviet times regularly carried out work to optimize the urban transport system. They stopped doing this in the 90s, but now attempts are being resumed. Last year, not only the problem of transport numbering was raised, but also the question of the need for certain routes. It happens that they lose relevance: for example, there was a bus that took people to the factory. The enterprise was closed and people stopped going there, but the route continues to function. Does the city need it? But, unfortunately, so far this work has not led to a positive result.

Illustration: Nastya Grigorieva

You can also plot the route manually, armed with a map, pencil and ruler. But if you find yourself on the route planner page, then another, often more convenient option– online route planning, one of which is offered to you on our site.

There are two types of route planning: manual and automatic.

• When laying manually, you put a number of points on the map that form an arbitrary route.
• With automatic compilation, you need to specify the starting and ending points, and our service itself will plot the optimal route, calculating the shortest path taking into account the rules traffic and the current traffic situation.

On the compiled route you will see everything car roads and nearby intersections, which will be very useful for motorists and travelers. A map with a route in the city of Moscow will allow you to plan your route and prevent you from getting lost in an unfamiliar place.

To create a route on a map of the city of Moscow, enter the starting point in the first field of the form presented below and the ending point in the third field. Then indicate how you will move to the final goal by clicking on the appropriate button - “Car”, “On Foot” By public transport". After that, click on the "Show route" button.