Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr. 21
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
Azerbaijan Railways CJSC considers the possibility of restoration of Baku-Rostov train route, the head of the press service of CJSC Nadir Azmammadov said.
"Direct routes from Baku to Moscow and Kharkiv currently operate on international destinations," said Azmammadov. "Train routes to Rostov have been temporarily suspended, but now we are considering the possibility of resuming communication on this route."
Russian Railways JSC said earlier that it stopped implementing train routes in the directions of Moscow-Baku, Rostov-Baku and Tyumen-Baku starting from December 2014 due to economic inexpediency. Starting from Dec. 16, the implementation of Rostov-Baku train route has been stopped, Tyumen-Baku train route stopped since Dec. 18, and the passenger Moscow-Baku train route stopped since Dec. 20.
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