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"Sapsan" will stop operating on the route Moscow - St. Petersburg
The Ministry of Transport has announced the time frame within which Russian Railways plans to remove the Sapsan high-speed trains from the Moscow-St. Petersburg route. The head of the department, Roman Starovoit, said in an interview with TASS that this will happen in the second quarter of 2028.
The service life of the Sapsan electric traction trains, which were supplied to Russia by the German Siemens corporation until 2022, is 30 years, the minister said. However, starting from 2028, all rolling stock is planned to be launched on routes from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Belgorod “and others.”
On the Moscow-St. Petersburg route, the Spasan will be replaced by a “more modern, high-speed” train of Russian design, the official promised. “Sapsan” will have to be completely removed from the route in order to “free up” the road infrastructure for this new train, Starovoit clarified.
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The road infrastructure is going to be used to create “Russia’s first high-speed railway,” the minister said. Its construction began in 2024 and should be completed in 2028, Starovoit said, citing a government order .
According to this order, the commissioning of the highway should take place in April - June 2028. According to the Ministry of Transport, thanks to the new trains, the flow of passengers between Moscow and St. Petersburg will increase by 2030 from five million to 23 million passengers per year.
The current Russian road infrastructure allows the Spasan to accelerate to 200-250 kilometers per hour, while the German equivalent, the Velaro family of trains, is capable of speeds of up to 400 kilometers per hour on European routes.
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At the beginning of 2022, 20 Sapsan trains were in operation in Russia. Of these, eight are the oldest trains, built in 2009, another eight were built in 2013-2014 and four in 2021. The deliveries were carried out by the Russian division of Siemens and the Ural Locomotives company of the Sinara group.
It is Sinara that is developing an import-substituted Russian train for high-speed roads. In October, the holding announced that work on the train had “already begun,” and its speed would exceed 250 kilometers per hour.
Sapsan aircraft have been operating on the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod route since 2010. However, from June 2022, Russian Railways replaced Sapsan trains with Lastochka trains, since it was necessary to replace the rolling stock on the route from the capital to St. Petersburg.
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