If the metro is closed: How to move around the city at night

Every night, from midnight to 5.30 am, 10 night routes operate in Moscow: nine bus routes

and one tram route. There are also 24-hour-a-day routes. The usual frequency is every 30

minutes; only the B bus runs every 15 minutes.

All the night routes intersect at convenient locations and follow main roads and metro lines.

Thus, night passengers can get home to the other side of the city, to railway stations or

airports.

How to get there, and where to change?

The common interchange hub for the night buses H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 and M7 is at

Slavyanskaya Square near Kitai-Gorod metro station. Other routes cross with them along the

way.

Using the H1 bus (midnight–5 am), passengers can get from Ozyornaya Street in the south

of Moscow to Sheremetyevo Airport. Along the way, passengers can get off near Yugo-

Zapadnaya, Leninsky Prospekt, Lubyanka, Kitai-Gorod, Tverskaya, Mayakovskaya and

Belorusskaya metro stations. Later, the bus runs along Leningradsky Prospekt parallel to the

metro’s green line (Line 2).

The H2 bus (midnight–5.30 am) connects the city centre with Kutuzovsky Prospekt and

Mozhaiskoye Motorway, and the H3 bus (midnight–5.30 am) goes from Kitai-Gorod metro

station to Ussuriyskaya Street parallel to the metro’s Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line (Line 3).

The H4 bus runs from the city centre to the Novokosino District in the east of Moscow.

The H5 bus (11.35pm–6 am) goes from Kitai-Gorod metro station to the intersection of the

Moscow Ring Road with Kashirskoye Motorway. It stops near Taganskaya, Kuzminki and

Tekstilshchiki stations and then turns southward and heads to Maryino and Domodedovskaya

metro stations.

The H6 bus takes passengers from Kitai-Gorod metro station to the north stations of the

Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line (Line 6) and Ostashkovskaya Street. Also, 24-hour-a-day buses

run on route 15 going from VDNKh metro station via the city centre to the Novodevichy

Convent.

The B bus operates round the clock along the clockwise and anticlockwise sides of the

Garden Ring, and the M7 bus goes from Lubyanka metro station via Kitai-Gorod to Vykhino.

The night tram on route 3 only runs from 1 am to 5.30am from Chistye Prudy metro station

past Paveletsky Railway Station, Tulskaya metro station and the ZIL platform to Akademika

Yangelya Street in the Yuzhnoye Chertanovo District. During the day, this tram runs from

Chistye Prudy metro station to Balaklavsky Prospekt.

Simple and comfortable

Night fares can be paid with the usual public transit tickets: Unified Travelcard, 90 Minute

ticket, TAT ticket, and Troika Card. It costs 55–65 roubles. Those entitled to discounts on

public transport enjoy the same benefits on the night routes.

Use of all-night buses and trams is up by 20 percent this summer compared with the spring.

Around 250,000 people have used all-night transport since June.