TRANS-SIBERIAN CHANGES: From July 9, Moscow-Vladivostok train 2, the famous "Rossiya" goes daily (prev. every 2 days) & gets new rolling stock with USB ports, personal combination-safes & hot shower in every car - but is slowed down from 6d0h22m (7 nights) to 6d22h39m (8 nights).

Rossiya& #39;s slower schedule is the one formerly used by train 100, which is discontinued. The Rossiya will have platskartny & kupé (2nd class 4-berth) only, losing spalny vagon (1st class 2-berth), poss. temporarily (but can buy 4 tickets for sole occupancy for 1, 2 or 3 people).

A new Moscow-Vladivostok train is introduced, train 62, unnamed, still good rolling stock, every 2 days, adopting the faster 6d0h (7 night) schedule formerly used by Rossiya.

This leaves Trans-Siberian travellers with a quandry: Take the famous "Rossiya", train 1 westbound, train 2 eastbound, best facilities, daily, but now takes an extra night & day? Or take nameless train 61/62, older cars, but faster, saving a day & night?

To my knowledge, this is the first time in history that the famous Rossiya (the "Russia") hasn& #39;t been the fastest train between Moscow and the Pacific. I& #39;ll update schedules & info at https://www.seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm">https://www.seat61.com/Trans-Sib... when the RZD website stops being & #39;down& #39;.

Here are (I believe) the new type of sleeping-cars which will run from July on the "Rossiya": http://www.tvz.ru/catalog/passenger/item_detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=1374">https://www.tvz.ru/catalog/p...