AIR
The international level airport “Tunoshna” is situated 17 kilometers to the south-east from Yaroslavl, 40 kilometers from Kostroma and 100 kilometers from Ivanovo, in the immediate proximity to the Yaroslavl river port, giving it the potential to carry out multimodal transportation that will serve the demands of the neighbouring regions. The state road Moscow-Kostroma-Kirov-Ekaterinburg passes near the airport.
Currently, the airport can service up to 15 airplanes a day. The airport provides the most modern ground-based and navigation equipment, it has a 300 meter takeoff and landing strip, a circling road for taxi and truck transport, loading areas, and a terminal building with handling capacity of 200 passengers an hour. A control point for entering the Russian Federation territory, an equipped customs station, and a custom and operation center with temporary storage warehouses are situated on the territory of the airport. The freight terminal lets handle 150 tons of international cargo daily.
The airport is ready for reception and take-off of aircrafts in accordance with ICAO requirements. According to the functioning classification “Norms of operational suitability of airport use” (NGEA), the airport belongs to the “В” class. The existing length of the landing strip is enough for take-off and landing of airplanes currently in use or planned for use of the types Tu-154, Tu-134, Yak-42, An-124 “Ruslan”, An-12, An-74, An-72, An-26, An-24, Il-114, Il-76, L-410 and below, as well as their foreign analogues and helicopters of all types.
TRAIN
Around 20 trains a day run between Yaroslavl and the Moscow’s Railway station “Yaroslavskiy” (underground railway station “Komsomolskaya”), a trip takes about 3,5 hours. Suburban trains go to Rostov the Great daily. Three or four suburban trains run daily to Kostroma. Yaroslavl is a starting point for those who want to head on past the Ural Mountains from the Golden Ring. There are also trains traveling to/from the north or east via Yaroslavl (Arkhangelsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Beijing in China, etc.).
CAR
You can take the northeastern direction of the federal motor road Moscow-Kholmogory (M-8) to travel from Yaroslavl to Moscow. The distance of 280 kilometers will take about 3,5 hours of travel. The road passes through the ancient Russian towns of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy and Rostov.
BUS
There are bus trips daily to/from Moscow’s Shchyolkovsky bus station (underground railway station “Shchyolkovskaya” ), plus you can take buses stopping in transit. Most of these stop at Pereslavl-Zalessky. Buses depart at 7:00, 8:00, and 9:00 a.m. and at 8:00 p.m.
BOAT
In summer from the river station there is a range of passenger services on the Volga to places as distant as Astrakhan. The hydrofoils to downstream destinations will take you to Kostroma (1,5 hours, two trips daily) or to Plyos (3 hours). From about early June to early October, long–distance Volga passenger ships stop in Yaroslavl every couple of days on their way between Moscow and cities like Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Astrakhan.