How to get to Eagle?

Eagle - proud with an interesting name in the Europeanpart of Russia. There are several versions of the appearance of the name of this city. According to one of the versions, the city was so named after the name of the Orel River, which in 1784 was renamed Orlik.

Despite the fact that there are earliermention of the presence of a certain village, the official date of the founding of the city is considered to be 1566, when Ivan the Terrible ordered to build a fortress near the southern borders of his kingdom.

At the moment, there are just over 300thousands of people. Many famous Russian writers are associated with the city, such as AA Fet, IA Bunin and MM Prishvin. A large number of museums are located here, including a very interesting military-historical museum.

In this article we will tell you how to get to Eagle by train, bus and car.

By Train

1. The city has two railway stations (Orel and Luzhki-Ostrovsky), through which about 60 long-distance trains pass.
2. Direct suburban trains go to Oryol from Bryansk(21: 14-00: 10, 09: 10-12: 10), Kursk (08: 52-11: 42, 16: 30-19: 20, 18: 30-21: 20), Lgov (10:35 -14: 17, 13: 46-18: 22), Tula (15: 15-18: 38) and some other cities.
3. A direct train from Moscow departs from Kursk08.30 and arrives at the Eagle 12:40. In addition to it, you can get from Moscow on a very large number of passing trains going, for example, to Belgorod, Kursk, Lgov, and others.
4. By train to Orel you can get from Smolensk (18:25), Bryansk (departure at 11:15, 13:11, 18:05, 15:58, 16:30, 18:45, 13:05), Kaluga (12:40, 21:05), Tula (9 : 06,18: 10,19: 10,20: 20), Ryazan (16:22), Voronezh (11: 10,18: 15), Kharkov (16:55), Kiev (every other day at 21:25) , Kursk (8:27, 13: 00,17: 10) and other cities.

By bus

From Moscow, the bus to the Eagle leaves from the station Krasnogvardeiskaya at 11:15, 14:25, 22:50. The journey takes 7 hours. The fare is 700 rubles.

By car

To get to Orel by car, it is necessary to move along the highway E105, Simferopol highway M2, away from Moscow towards Kursk. The distance from Moscow is 362 km.

Also in Orel you can get on the highway route A141 or drive from Bryansk on the road of local significance P120.

By airplane

By plane, you can not get to Orel. South Airport, located 5 km from the city center, since 2010 does not function. In the local control room only control over flights over the city and the procedure for performing aerial work.

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