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On 13 December 2015, after a year-long interruption, train No. 009Shch resumes service between Moscow and Sofia. It departs Moscow’s Belorussky station at 16:27 and arrives in Sofia on 15 December at 18:15. The route passes through Smolensk, Minsk, Brest, Warsaw, Budapest and Sofia.
Tickets for a compartment carriage will cost an average of 17,000 rubles. A higher-comfort sleeper carriage, known as SV, will cost 25,500–28,100 rubles. The ticket price from the Bulgarian capital will be €250.
State railway company RZD announced a train from Moscow to Varna and Burgas, scheduled to begin in summer 2016. The timetable and ticket prices will be announced in the spring of the following year.
