Novgorod has connections to Moscow (531
km) and St. Petersburg (189 km) by the federal highway M10. There are
public buses to Saint Petersburg and other destinations.
The city has
direct railway passenger connections with Moscow (Leningradsky Rail
Terminal, by night trains), St. Petersburg (Moscow Rail Terminal and
Vitebsk Rail Terminal, bysuburban trains), Minsk (Belarus) (Minsk
Passazhirsky railway station, by night trains) and major cities of
northwestern Russia such as Pskov and Murmansk.
Walls of the Novgorod Kremlin
The
city's airports Yurievo and Krechevitsy do not serve any regular
flights since the middle 1990s. The nearest international airport is St.
Petersburg's Pulkovo, some 180 km north of the city.
Local transportation
Local
transportation consists of a network of buses and trolleybuses. The
trolleybus network, which currently consists of five routes, started
operating in 1995 and is the first trolley system opened in Russia after
the fall of the Soviet Union
