How to get to Baikal from Moscow, Irkutsk, Klan-Ude and other cities of the Russian Federation? Consider up-to-date information on how to get there by train and car, fly by plane. We will find out ticket prices, schedule and other aspects of planning a vacation on the coast, as a bonus, we will tell you about several recreation centers where it is worth becoming the best.
The pride of the Russian land - Lake Baikal - is located in the depths of the forests of Eastern Siberia between the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia, a fusion of cultures that gives this area a special flavor. The most ancient and deepest lake on the planet, unique in the variety of unique flora and fauna, attracts the attention of scientists and travelers. Baikal has incredibly clear water, the pristine nature has been preserved here, and there is no civilization. This place is shrouded in an aura of secrets, customs and traditions. Millions of tourists from all over the world dream of getting here to enjoy peace and quiet, or find adventure and extreme relaxation. It is not easy to get to Baikal, which is why this place attracts millions of people.
The appeal! We have already repeatedly published photos from vacation spots where mountains of garbage leave seemingly decent tourists at first glance. Respect yourself first of all, it is not so difficult to bring waste products to specially designated places.
How to get to Baikal from Moscow?
There are three large cities on the coast of the lake that can be reached by train or plane - Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude and Severobaikalsk. You can also get there by car, as many independent travelers do, we will also touch on this point.
- Depending on the place of rest on Lake Baikal, you have to choose the city of arrival. Irkutsk ideal for a trip to the Maloye More, Olkhon, Arshan, Listvyanka and other places.
- Ulan-Ude ideal for relaxing in wild places (for example Enkhaluk), where tourism is not yet fully developed as from Irkutsk.
- Severobaikalsk perfect for visiting hot springs.
The cost of the flight to Irkutsk
Since there are airports in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, most tourists prefer to fly to the city closest to the lake - Irkutsk, besides, the flight here will become even cheaper thanks to the return of Pobeda in the near future.
- In Ulan-Ude, plane tickets are cheap, and there are regular flights.
We will show you how to get to Baikal from Moscow by plane. Everything is very simple: from any airport in the capital by air companies:
- Aeroflot,
- S7,
- UTair,
- Ural Airlines,
- Transaero.
The flight time is 5 hours. 45 minutes Ticket price from 10 to 13 thousand rubles round trip. The lowest prices for air tickets to Irkutsk are from December to March, the highest - in July, August and September. In order to plan the loading of the aircraft, the air carrier arranges a preliminary discount on tickets and their sale, and thus monitors the filling of the aircraft. If you are persistent and monitor prices frequently well in advance of your trip, in the end, you will be lucky and you will become the owner of a ticket at a reduced price.
We advise you to definitely use the calendar below, it saves time and shows all the results in the right period of time. Sometimes adjacent dates are half the price.
- Price calendar for tickets to Irkutsk:
- Flights from Moscow to Ulan-Ude:
How to get there by train?
If you don't know how to get to Lake Baikal cheaply, choose a train. You will drive along the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway, see the beauty of the European part of Russia, the Urals, Siberia.
- Kazansky and Yaroslavsky railway stations of the capital offer several regular direct or transit trains to Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude... Travel time will be more than three days. For a ticket in a reserved seat carriage, you need to pay from 6 thousand rubles.
- Before Severobaikalsk 1-2 direct trains run from the same stations per day. Travel time is about 4 days, the cost of a reserved seat is from 6400 rubles.
Advice! When choosing a train ride, you should buy tickets in advance; during the holiday season, many tourists buy up offers 2 months in advance.
Get there by your car?
Surely, there are such desperate heads who dream of traveling to Lake Baikal in their own car. The idea is quite feasible, considering that you are a lover of serious adventure and the price of gasoline does not scare you at all. Calculate for yourself how many days it will take to overcome 5200 km. It is worth noting that you will have to travel through Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Omsk along the federal highways M-7 (since 2013 Volga) and M-53 (since 2013 Siberia), asphalt concrete, 7 m wide, recently renovated ...
On our own note:
- You can get to Lake Baikal on your own from Moscow in a week, driving about 800-1000 km a day.
- Be sure to take a spare tire, many sections of the gravel road do not spare rubber.
- Mountain sections of roads in the form of a serpentine (especially in the area of Kultuk), here we advise you to be extremely careful, many trucks fail with brakes.
A number of sections of the route have dangerous factors: steep descents and ascents, turns, limited visibility. Every 50-60 km of the route there are food points, food is tasty and inexpensive, focus on heavy trucks. The price of AI95 gasoline in Kazan is 43.04 rubles, in Chelyabinsk - 44.05 rubles, in Omsk - 45.10 rubles, in Irkutsk - 44.02 rubles, (AI92 - 41.60 rubles, at the time of publication).
How to get to Baikal from Irkutsk?
And now you got to Irkutsk. But from it to the nearest village on the lake another 70 km, which also need to be overcome somehow. You have several options on how to get to Lake Baikal from Irkutsk: take a minibus or bus, take a car or boat, or train.
Buses and minibuses to Baikal
- The first car option - bus.
Therefore, we are looking for the bus station, which is located on October Revolution Street, 11 (15 minutes walk from the city center). From it in the direction of Lake Baikal every day from 8 to 16 hours. buses leave every 50 minutes. Ticket price from 130 rubles. to Listvyanka, to Olkhon - 510 rubles. We buy tickets at the box office, there are no queues. The official website of the bus station with a timetable.
- The second option is route taxi.
The parking lot is located in the Central Market (near the Shopping Center), the cost of transportation to Listvyanka will cost 150 rubles, and to Olkhon - 800 rubles. Minibuses leave when they are full. If suddenly there are no places (which is unlikely), then we walk along Timiryazev Street towards City Hospital No. 3, next to the photo of the Original salon there is a pavilion where you can buy tickets to Olkhon Island.
In 1 hour, along the Baikal tract (65 km), you will get off at the stop "Baikal Museum" in Listvyanka. Here, from the pier "Rogatka" to the pier of Port Baikal, there is a ferry that takes on board up to 30 passengers. The cost of a ferry ticket for an adult is 71 rubles, for children from 5 to 10 years old - 36 rubles.
Private minibuses await passengers 100 meters from the bus station, which will take you anywhere on the Baikal coast at a bargain price.
How to get there by train?
Along the Baikal coast, you can get to the necessary station by train along the Circum-Baikal railway, which connects the southern village of Kultuk with the eastern station Mysovaya and makes stops at several stations and stopping points.
First, they get to Kultuk or Slyudyanka by train for 150 rubles and change to a train to the desired station. To board at the Port Baikal railway station, tourists get to it on the Voskhod motor ship, and to Listvyanka by bus.
In summer, the tourist train “Circum-Baikal Express” runs between the stations of Irkutsk and the port of Baikal. Trains run to Severobaikalsk and Nizhneangarsk every other day. The official website of the railway station with the timetable.
How to get there by car?
By car to the coast, you need to get about 100 km along the M-55 highway to Baikalsk, Tankhoy, Vydrino, or 60 km to the village of Listvyanka along the Baikalsky tract. It all depends on your place of rest and desires, Baikal is different everywhere, so we are waiting for questions in the comments.
And one more way: from Irkutsk, take the Yakutsk highway to Bayandai, turn right and after a short time you will reach the ferry crossing to Olkhon Island or turn off earlier from the highway to the MRS.
Map with routes and main places
How to get there by water?
Very simply, we go to the VSRP website and look at the schedule of the ship to different parts of the lake, and here we buy tickets. Tourists mainly use the transfer to Bolshie Koty and Peschanaya Bay.
Departure takes place from the pier "Raketa" in the microdistrict. Solar. The bus stop with the same name is located nearby, there is a minibus number 16 from the railway station through the city center. (By the way, you can also buy tickets at the pier, the ticket office is open from Monday to Saturday)
How to get to Baikal from Ulan-Ude?
If you have planned to visit the eastern coast of Lake Baikal - Bezymyannaya Bay, Zmeinaya, Ust-Barguzin, Zabaikalsky National Park, Vydrino, Tankhoi, Baikalsky Reserve, Enkhaluk, then it is better to buy a ticket to the capital of Buryatia Ulan-Ude right away.
From this city you can get to many places on the lake, both by public transport and by your own car. At your service are buses, electric trains, fixed-route taxis. The transport schedule is constantly changing, so it is better to look more often at the official website of the city railway and bus station.
To villages Vydrino, Tankhoy, Kultushnaya, Baikal surf, which are located in one direction from Ulan-Ude, can be reached by minibus from the railway station on the street. Revolution of 1905, 35. Travel time - 5 hours, ticket price - 1300 rubles. The schedule of minibuses is changing, so the information must be specified in the contact center of the station.
To villages Ust-Barguzin, Gremyachinsk, Turk, Goryachinsklocated along the Barguzinsky tract, can be reached by minibuses №№ 301, 302, 344, 345, 346 from the bus station "Selenga", which is located almost in the city center on the street. Soviet, 1. In the summer, it makes sense to book tickets in advance, as there is a very large influx of tourists. Ust-Barguzin is further away, the travel time to it is about 4-5 hours. The cost of tickets for the above stations is from 270 (Gremyachinsk) to 540 (Ust-Barguzin) rubles.
There is another option - to rent a car, but it is very expensive, about 1000 rubles per day for an old car, and even with a deposit of 5 to 40 thousand rubles.
How to get to Peschanaya Bay?
This place is considered the most beautiful on the lake. People come here to take a break from civilization, retire and be alone with their thoughts. Since the bay is very far from the roads, people get to it on the "Barguzin" motor ship from the Irkutsk river station at Solnechny microdistrict, Zhukova ave., 98 (see the website for tickets HSWP (see the link above).
The motor ship runs only in the summer, and the rest of the time it is fashionable to order a private boat, especially during the Indian summer. The trip by motor ship takes 4 hours and 2800 rubles for a ticket. Daredevils in winter can get to the Bay along the frozen lake by car. This route will take 35 minutes at a speed of 40-60 km per hour.
Another option for the hardy is a minibus to the village of Bolshoye Goloustnoye and on foot along the Baikal trail, 35 km long.
The bus schedule from Irkutsk to Bolshoy Goloustnoye is variable, as are the prices. Therefore, the information needs to be clarified.
In connection with the constantly growing interest of tourists to the lake in Buryatia and Irkutsk, more and more travel companies appear that solve the problems of delivering tourists to different places of Lake Baikal. Both long tours and day trips allow you to get in the right direction and see the untouched edge of the sacred Lake Baikal, but remember the call at the beginning of the material.
How to get to Olkhon and Maloye More?
- To get to Khuzhira choose the Yakutsk tract and move along the highway to Bayandai (distance 134 km). The road is of good quality, mostly straight, sometimes there are traffic police posts. You can have a bite to eat at the Cozy Cafe in Gulun Tumur.
- There are gas stations along the way, we advise you to refuel at Rosneft.
- At Bayandai, you need to turn right, from here another 130 km. before the ferry to Olkhon Island (Khuzhir). The crossing is free, during the holiday season we recommend traveling on weekdays, at peak times the queue reaches up to 5 hours of waiting.
- The last 37 km after the ferry crossing there is a gravel road, here you should observe the speed limit and stay away from the oncoming flow. This way you can extend the life of your suspension and tires.
How to get to the Small Sea? Moving towards Olkhon along the Yakutsk tract, we reach the Kraisneft gas station, the Chernorud sign. We turn left and move further along the gravel road, it will lead you to the tourist centers on the coast and the village of Sarma.
How to get to Listvyanka?
You can get to Listvnyaki from Irkutsk by your own car, bus or minibus. The distance from the center to the village is 67 km. You can take a minibus or bus from the Central Market or the bus station, as already mentioned in more detail above.
The Baikal tract, leading to the destination, is constantly being reconstructed and the route is expanding, the first 25 km of the road are of excellent quality, then there is asphalt with cracks and sealed pits, there are places with cameras. The journey takes approximately 1 hour. The bus fare is 150 rubles, the bus is cheaper.
