Grand Service Express was established in 2002 and specializes in railway passenger transportation of increased comfort, including one of the most popular Moscow-St. Petersburg routes. It meets all the requirements for companies of a similar profile, ”the ministry’s website says.

The Transport Ministry also announced that the first passengers will travel by train to the Crimea from Moscow and St. Petersburg before the end of 2019, after the commissioning of the railway part of the bridge across the Kerch Strait.

October 23, it was reported that on the railway part of the Crimean bridge began testing with heavy trains.