Uzbekistan resumed regular bus communication with Russia on the Tashkent-Moscow route which was interrupted because of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020. The bus left the Tashkent bus station at 12:00 p.m. local time on July 18. This was reported to a TASS correspondent on Monday in the administration of the bus station.
"Today at 12:30 local time (10:30 Moscow time) the first regular bus on the Tashkent-Moscow route after more than two years of interruption was departed from the capital's bus station," a representative of the administration said. According to him, each passenger had the opportunity to take luggage weighing up to 30 kg, according to the schedule, the bus should arrive to the terminal point of the route in 67 hours.
Earlier, the press service of the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan said that buses will operate twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays on the Tashkent-Moscow route at a cost of 1 million soums (about 5,280 rubles - TASS . The Tashkent - Kazan flight will be carried out on Tuesdays and Fridays with the ticket price of 800 thousand soums (about 4,224 rubles - TASS). Twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays a flight on the Tashkent - St. Petersburg route will also be carried out, the ticket for this direction costs 1.25 million soums (about 6,600 rubles - TASS).
Buses (Yutong buses of the Uzavtotrans Service Company) to Russian cities will be departed from the Tashkent bus station.
Last October and April, Uzbekistan resumed bus services to Tajikistan, as well as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, interrupted by the pandemic. On July 15, Russia lifted sanitary and epidemiological restrictions on crossing its border, which were imposed in 2020 due to the spread of COVID-19, but maintained the requirement to provide the results of PCR testing for all entrants, except citizens of Belarus.
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Based on materials from TASS