BC system for selling travel documents. Electronic ticket and electronic registration. Can I pay for a ticket with a card? And it's safe

Specify the itinerary and date. In response, we will find information from Russian Railways about the availability of tickets and their cost. Choose the appropriate train and place. Pay for the ticket using one of the suggested methods. Payment information will be instantly transferred to Russian Railways and your ticket will be issued.

How to return a purchased train ticket?

Can I pay for a ticket with a card? And is it safe?

Yes, sure. Payment is made through the payment gateway of the processing center Gateline.net. All data is transmitted over a secure channel.The Gateline.net gateway was developed in accordance with the requirements of the international PCI DSS security standard. The gateway software has successfully passed the version 3.1 audit.The Gateline.net system allows you to accept payments by Visa and MasterCard, including using 3D-Secure: Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode.The Gateline.net payment form is optimized for various browsers and platforms, including mobile devices.Almost all railway agencies on the Internet work through this gateway.

What is an electronic ticket and electronic registration?

Buying an electronic ticket to the site is a modern and fast way to issue a travel document without the participation of a cashier or operator.When buying an electronic railway ticket, seats are redeemed immediately, at the time of payment.After paying for boarding the train, you must either go through electronic registration or print a ticket at the station.Electronic registration Not available for all orders. If registration is available, it can be completed by clicking on the appropriate button on our website. You will see this button immediately after payment. You will then need your original ID and a printout of your boarding pass to board the train. Some conductors do not require a printout, but it's better not to risk it.Print e-ticket you can at any time before the train departure at the box office at the station or at the self-registration terminal. To do this, you need a 14-digit order code (you will receive it by SMS after payment) and the original ID.

1. Rules for placing an order for the purchase of travel documents (tickets) via the Internet
Before placing an order for the purchase of travel documents (tickets), a registration procedure is performed, a personal password is entered, which must be remembered in order to view, if necessary, information about your orders.

When placing an order for the purchase of travel documents (tickets), the details of the trip and personal data of each passenger are entered sequentially in the proposed fields.

The person placing the order is fully responsible for the correctness of the details of the trip and the personal data of each passenger.

Travel documents (tickets) subject to availability in the Express system can be purchased from 45 days

(ticket sales start at 8:00) and not later than 1 hour before the departure of the train from the passenger boarding station.

Travel documents for travel on trains of interregional economy class lines, regional business class lines and international lines are issued at the "full", "child" fare and "no money" for children under 5 years of age without occupying a separate seat.

The tariff for issuing travel documents (commission fee) via the Internet is collected in accordance with the Decree of the Ministry of Economy of May 12, 2011 No. 73 "On approval of the price list for the services of transport railway and automobile terminals" (as amended on May 4, 2012) and is equal to:

on the territory of the Republic of Belarus - 2,400 rubles; in international traffic - 7,800 rubles.

A travel document on a strict registration form can only be obtained on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

2. Features of placing an order for the purchase of travel documents (tickets)
Seats in different types of carriages are issued by different orders, including the indication of male and female seats in compartment cars and SV carriages (only one of the options can be specified in one order - men's, women's or mixed). In order to avoid conflict situations on the train, the choice of seats must be made in a compartment, the sign of which corresponds to the gender of the passenger (“male” or “female”).

3. Passenger data
Please carefully fill in the details of all passengers in the order. Before completing the order payment procedure, once again make sure that the information you have entered is correct.

The personal data of the passenger must correspond to the data specified in the document proving his identity. If the personal data in the document is indicated in two languages ​​(Russian and Latin), the information in the order is filled in Russian. If an error is found in the personal data of passengers or details of documents proving their identity, you must enter the corrected information before paying for the order.

4. Payment for the order

with the help of bank payment cards BELKART of JSC "JSSB Belarusbank", as well as BELKART-INTERNET cards of other issuing banks of the Republic of Belarus.

Payment by bank payment card is made after checking and confirming the order. You have 20 minutes to make a decision to pay for the order.

If you exceed the set time, your order will be cancelled.

The cost of the travel document includes the tariff fee for issuing travel documents via the Internet.

For clarifications about the peculiarities of payment by your bank card in the Internet banking system of JSC ASB Belarusbank, the reasons for the refusal of payment, you must first contact the support service of JSC ASB Belarusbank.

Tel: 147

In case of disputes when debiting funds from a bank payment card, you must contact the support service of your bank.

The security of the payment procedure is ensured using IP traffic protection protocols.

4.1. Payment using Visa, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro bank cards of international payment systems Visa International, MasterCard WorldWide; bank payment cards of the BELKART system.

Payment by bank card is made after checking and confirming the order with redirection to the payment gateway. You have 20 minutes to make a decision to pay for the order and enter your bank card details. If the time limit is exceeded, your order will be cancelled.
When paying for an order, the following bank card details are entered: bank card number, expiration date, name and surname of bank card holders, a three-digit verification code (CVV2 or CVC2) located on the back of the card, and the name of the card issuing bank. For clarifications about the features of payment by your bank card on the Internet, the reasons for the refusal of payment, you must first contact the support service of your bank.
In accordance with the requirements of international payment systems, in order to increase the level of security when paying, 3D Secure / SecureCode technology (a special technology for the security of payments on the Internet) is used. In the absence of an appropriate certificate from your bank for the use of this technology, you may be denied payment by the payment system.

Also, when making Internet payments, Internet Password BELKART* technology can be used.

If you receive a refusal to pay, you should contact the support service of your bank.

* Internet technology Password BELKART - a technology developed by the BELKART payment system to provide additional security for payments on the Internet, in which the cardholder of this payment system is identified by confirming each payment with a secret password.
In accordance with the requirements of the 3D Secure/Secure Code technology, when paying for an order, the Issuing Bank may require the Cardholders to undergo additional identification. The need for additional identification and its method is determined only by the Issuing Bank. For more information about the identification procedure, the Cardholder should contact the support service of the bank that issued the card.
For additional information, please contact the technical support department of Electronic Payments Company ASSIST LLC [email protected].
If for some reason you did not receive an order number or confirmation of the successful formation of the order, before placing a second order, go to the "My Account" section and make sure that the order was not really formed.
In case of any disputes regarding the debiting of funds when paying for travel documents, please contact by e-mail [email protected] and save this correspondence, as well as to the issuing bank, the holder of the bank card of which you are.

Reasons for refusal to pay may include:

1. There are not enough funds on the card.
2. The bank that issued your card has banned payment via the Internet (some banks prohibit payment via the Internet).
3. Visa 3DSecure or MasterCard SecureCode technology is used for a bank card, but the technology is not activated or an incorrect verification code is entered.
4. The data you entered was not confirmed on the payment page (data format error, etc.)

5. The fraud monitoring system rejected the transaction due to suspected fraud.

5. Electronic registration

Electronic check-in for a train - the consent of a passenger to travel on a train on the basis of a contract of carriage, confirmed by an electronic travel document, without issuing a travel document at the ticket office.

Electronic registration is performed:

during the procedure for ordering electronic travel documents after the step "Payment";

at any other time in your personal account, but no later than 1 hour before the train departure from the starting station, simultaneously for all passengers specified in the order.

During the purchase of an electronic railway train ticket, when entering data, it is necessary to tick the corresponding field of the form ("electronic registration").

The status of electronic registration will be assigned to the ticket after payment.

Cancellation of the service (refusal) of electronic registration is carried out no later than 1 hour before the train departure from the starting station of the train route:

on the website in your personal account;

by obtaining a travel document at the ticket office of the Belarusian Railways.

Attention! If there is an electronic check-in service, travel documents are not issued at ticket offices less than 1 hour before the departure of the train from the initial station of its route.

Electronic check-in is not carried out if the passenger:

sends luggage in the baggage car;

carries small pets with him in international traffic;

issued travel on the form of strict reporting.

If the service of electronic registration for the train is available, the following is not performed:

issuance of a travel document (ticket) on a strict accountability form;

reissuance of an electronic travel document.

Boarding the train for electronic tickets with electronic registration is carried out after presenting to the conductor of the car a document proving the identity of the passenger (passport of a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, residence permit in the Republic of Belarus, refugee certificate, military ID, other document containing a photograph certified by a seal, and a passenger under 14 years, - passport or birth certificate).

A passenger who has paid for two or more travel documents (up to 4) in his name when traveling through the territory of the Republic of Belarus can travel both alone and with passengers whose details are not indicated in the Vedomosti, according to the number of paid travel documents.

When traveling in international traffic, boarding a train by electronic registration is carried out upon presentation to the conductor of the car a document proving the identity of the passenger, specified when placing the order.

Return electronic tickets with electronic registration is carried out after they are issued on a strict accountability form, i.e. no later than 1 hour before the departure of the train from the starting station of its route. In order to receive a refund, you must issue a travel document at the ticket office based on the order number (14 digits) and return it on a general basis. To avoid misunderstandings, before returning electronic tickets with electronic registration, you should refuse electronic registration through the "Personal Account", since a refund less than 1 hour before the departure of the train from the initial station of its route will not be possible if there is an active electronic registration service through the ticket office .

Attention! If you have canceled the electronic check-in service by receiving your ticket at the ticket office, you must present it when boarding the train.

If you missed the train, then only at the boarding station, 20 minutes after the departure of the train, upon presentation of an identity document specified in the order, you can print an electronic travel document with electronic registration on strict reporting form and return it.

It is not recommended to perform electronic registration if it is necessary to provide a travel document form for a report (for example, to the accounting department for passengers going on a business trip), since the order form is not an accounting document. In this case, it is necessary to print out the travel document at the railway ticket offices (at least one hour before the departure of the train from the starting station of the train route).

Currently, the service of electronic registration in international traffic is available on the following trains , plying in the message between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, between the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Latvia, between the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Lithuania:

18 / 17 Nice - Moscow (trailer group Brest - Moscow)

22 Prague - Moscow (trailer group Brest - Moscow)

25 / 26 Minsk - Moscow
28 / 27 Brest - Moscow
36 / 35 Brest - St. Petersburg
39 / 40 Polotsk - Moscow

50 / 49 Brest - St. Petersburg
52 / 51 Minsk - St. Petersburg
56 / 55 Gomel - Mogilev - Moscow (including trailer groups of cars Soligorsk - Moscow)

58 / 57 Grodno - St. Petersburg
64 / 63 Minsk - Novosibirsk
66 / 65 Minsk - Murmansk
68 / 67 Brest - Saratov

69 / 70 Saratov - Berlin (trailer group Brest - Saratov).

76 / 75 Brest - Gomel - Moscow
78 / 77 Grodno - Moscow

84 / Gomel - St.Petersburg

87 / 88 Minsk - Riga

104 / 103 Brest - Novosibirsk
114 / 113 Brest - Novosibirsk (except for direct carriage Brest - Surgut)

132 / 131 Brest - Moscow
134 / 133 Minsk - Arkhangelsk

196 / 195 Brest - Moscow

376 / 375 Gomel - Adler
510 / 509 Brest - Moscow
516 / 515 Brest - Moscow
538 / 537 Brest - Moscow
552 / 551 Brest - Moscow

801 / 802 Minsk - Vilnius

803 / 804 Minsk - Vilnius

805 / 806 Minsk - Vilnius

807 / 808 Minsk - Vilnius

Issuance of travel documents (tickets) is carried out only on the territory of the Republic of Belarus at the ticket office of the Belarusian Railway, equipped with an Express system terminal. The list of points of sale can be found by clicking on the link located at the bottom of the page.

After the payment procedure for the order, an order form is formed, in which the order number (14 digits) is indicated. Be sure to print out the order form or remember the order number, according to which travel documents (tickets) will be issued at the ticket office of the Belarusian Railway, equipped with ACS Express terminals.

Attention! The order number (14 digits) is known only to you, without an order form or your order number, a travel document (ticket) cannot be issued.

If the order form is lost or you have forgotten your order number, enter your Personal Account using your password and find the order you need. If necessary, reprint the order information form.

The order form is not a travel document (ticket) and does not give the right to travel.

Registration is made on the basis of the order form or order number (14 digits), to one of the passengers or his authorized representative on the basis of a document proving his identity.

All travel documents (tickets) specified in the order form must be issued at the same time, partial registration is not allowed. Changing the personal data of passengers when issuing travel documents (tickets) at the box office of the Belarusian Railway is not allowed.

Registration of travel documents (tickets) at the ticket office stops in 5 minutes. before the train's departure.

Reissuance of travel documents (tickets) ordered and paid for via the Internet is not carried out at the box office of the Belarusian Railway.

Making an order and receiving travel documents (tickets) is not carried out during the technological break of the Express system from 3:00 am to 3:00 pm. 00 min. until 4 o'clock 00 min.

7. Registration of travel for children
The passenger has the right to carry with him children under the age of 5 years, if they do not occupy a separate seat, on children's travel documents (tickets) without paying the fare. In this case, non-monetary travel documents (tickets) are issued for children without occupying a seat (simultaneously with the payment of travel documents (tickets) at the "full" fare when placing an order). Such travel documents (tickets) can also be issued upon receipt of travel documents (tickets) paid by the passenger at the ticket office of the Belarusian Railways, in this case it is not necessary to indicate children under the age of 5 in the order.

For a child under the age of 5, at the request of the passenger, a travel document (ticket) with a seat at the "child" fare can be purchased (simultaneously with the payment of travel documents (tickets) at the "full" fare when placing an order).

A child aged 5 to 10 years old must purchase a travel document (ticket) with a separate seat, paid at the "child" rate.

For children who are 10 years old and older, travel documents (tickets) are purchased at the “full” fare.

Issuance of children's travel documents without the simultaneous issuance of an adult travel document is not allowed.

The age of the child is determined on the day of the start of the trip.

8. Passenger boarding the train

The procedure for boarding the train when registering electronically is specified in clause 5.

9. Return of travel documents (tickets) and money due
Return of an unused travel document (ticket) is made by the passenger at the ticket office of the Belarusian Railways, which returns travel documents.

issued in international traffic, is made upon presentation of a travel document (ticket) and an identity document, in accordance with the established return periods.

When returning an unused travel document (ticket) issued for travel in carriages of other CIS countries, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of Estonia, the passenger has the right to:

• not later than 24 hours before the departure of the train, receive back the fare, consisting of the cost of the ticket and the cost of the reserved seat;
• less than 24 hours, but no later than 6 hours before the departure of the train, receive the cost of the ticket and 50% of the cost of the reserved seat;
• less than 6 hours before the departure of the train, but no later than 3 hours after the departure of the train, receive a refund of the ticket price. The cost of the reserved seat in this case is not paid.

Return of travel documents issued for travel through the territory of the Republic of Belarus, is made upon presentation of a travel document (ticket).

When returning an unused travel document (ticket) issued for travel through the territory of the BC to the train formed by the Belarusian Railways, the passenger has the right to:

not later than 15 hours before the departure of the train, receive back the fare, consisting of the cost of the ticket and the cost of the reserved seat;

less than 15 hours, but no later than 4 hours before the departure of the train, receive the cost of the ticket and 50% of the cost of the reserved seat;

less than 4 hours before the departure of the train and within 3 hours after the departure to receive back the cost of the ticket. The cost of the reserved seat in this case is not paid.

When returning unused travel documents (tickets), the payer is charged a fee for the return. Tariffs additionally charged when issuing travel documents (tickets) are not returned to the payer.

The cost of services (including bed linen) is fully refundable.

Refunds for unused travel documents issued via the Internet at a ticket office equipped with a POS-terminal are carried out only to a bank payment card.

The term for crediting funds to the card account depends on the bank that issued the payment card, and is up to 3-5 business days.

If you have any questions regarding the crediting of funds for the returned unused travel document, you should contact the bank whose card holder you are.

Return of electronic tickets with electronic registration is carried out after they are issued on a strict accountability form, i.e. no later than 1 hour before the departure of the train from the starting station of its route. In order to receive a refund, you must issue a travel document at the ticket office based on the order number (14 digits) and return it on a general basis. To avoid misunderstandings, before returning electronic tickets with electronic registration, you should refuse electronic registration through the "Personal Account", since a refund less than 1 hour before the departure of the train from the initial station of its route will not be possible if there is an active electronic registration service through the ticket office .

If it is impossible (due to illness, accident, etc.) to receive a travel document (ticket) at the box office, the passenger can send an appeal to the Belarusian Railway Administration (address: Lenina St., 17, Minsk, 220030, Republic of Belarus) or email [email protected](for the appeal of citizens) indicating the order number, details of the trip, reasons and supporting documents. In case of a positive consideration of the appeal, the funds due will be transferred to the home address by postal order.

To return funds to the card account, it is necessary that the following mandatory details are present in the circulation:

surname, first name, patronymic (if any), address of the place of residence (place of stay);

a statement of the essence of the appeal, which must indicate the amount, date and number of the order;

bank details to which it is necessary to transfer funds: name of the bank (branch), current account, UNP of the bank, MFO, personal account of the client.

Its first name, Smolensky, Belorussky railway station received in the year of the beginning of its construction in 1869. The opening ceremony of the station took place along with the opening of the Moscow-Smolensk railway, which took place in October 1870, however, already in March 1871 it was renamed Brest, and was called that until 1912.

In 1907, under the leadership of the architect I. Strukov, a complete reconstruction of the station began, which no longer accommodated all passengers, the station platform became too small for them. It ended in 1910 and cost the treasury more than a million rubles. After this reconstruction, the railway station took on its appearance, as it appears before us today.

In 1912, the Belorussky railway station had to change its name again, this time to Aleksandrovsky, and in August 1922 the railway was renamed Moscow-Belarusian-Baltic, and Aleksandrovsky railway station became known as Belorussko-Baltic. The Belorussky railway station received its current name only in 1936. Today they talk about the Belorussky railway station as the largest passenger terminal connecting the capital of Russia with its western regions, as well as with Belarus, Lithuania and European countries.

For many residents of Belarus, rail transport is one of the most comfortable, reliable and affordable travel options. The history of the Belarusian railway began more than 150 years ago - in 1862, when train traffic was opened on the Grodno-Porechye section.

Today BZD occupies a leading position in the national market of transport services. Annually, railway transport in Belarus transports more than 140 million tons of cargo and 90 million passengers, providing over 60% of the country's total freight turnover and 30% of passenger traffic.

Structure of the Belarusian Railway

The Belarusian Railway includes 29 organizations, each of which has the status of a legal entity; 7 separate structural subdivisions (branches); as well as 3 representative offices abroad - in Russia, Kazakhstan and Poland. In total, the Belarusian Railway employs over 79,000 people. Among them are representatives of about 500 professions. Railway workers honor their traditions - about 400 labor dynasties work on the line.

The Belarusian Railway is 572 passenger stopping points and 320 passenger stations, 19 large stations, including 4 out-of-class ones. On average, more than 200 thousand people are transported by rail per day.

The organization of cargo transportation is provided by 370 stations: 9 of them are sorting and 27 freight. The average daily loading volume exceeds 200,000 tons.

Passenger Transportation

« Belarusian gygunka"- a brand with a worldwide reputation. Today, passenger railway communication connects Belarus with Paris, Nice, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest, Vienna, as well as the capitals and administrative centers of Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan.

In communication with the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Kazakhstan, up to 34 pairs of trains of constant circulation of the Belarusian Railways run. Including the Belarusian Railway forms 6 international branded trains, of which 5 are in communication with the Russian Federation and 1 with the capital of Ukraine.

In recent years, the system of passenger rail transportation in Belarus has changed significantly. Today, passenger transportation by public rail transport is carried out in the following types of messages:

• urban (city lines);
• regional (regional lines);
• interregional (interregional lines);
• international (international lines);
• commercial (commercial lines).

City lines represent the transportation of passengers within the city of Minsk, the regional center and beyond, but not further than stations (stops) located in satellite cities. Today, modern 4-car electric trains of urban lines connect Minsk with three satellite cities: Zaslavl, Rudensk and Smolevichi.

Passengers are in constant demand business class regional trains. On November 19, 2011, regular traffic was opened on the Minsk-Baranovichi-Minsk and Baranovichi-Brest-Baranovichi routes, and a month and a half later, trains of regional business class lines began to run on the Minsk-Orsha-Minsk route. The work carried out to modernize the infrastructure and electrify the Osipovichi-Bobruisk section made it possible, starting from April 6, 2013, to carry out transportation by trains of regional business class lines between Minsk and Bobruisk.

Since May 2013, new train routes of regional business class lines have been introduced on the sections Orsha-Krichev-Kommunary, Kommunary-Mogilev; in September 2013 - on the Minsk-Zhlobin section; in 2014 - on the Minsk-Molodechno section.

Economy Regional Lines provide transport services to the segment of passengers not covered by business class lines, and are the most popular type of transportation.

Interregional lines represent the transportation of passengers between Minsk and regional centers, as well as between the regional centers of the republic themselves. Depending on the speed of delivery to the destination, the number of stops along the route, interregional lines are divided into business and economy class.

The movement of trains of interregional lines of business class is carried out on the directions connecting the capital with Brest, Gomel and Vitebsk.

International lines- transportation between the Republic of Belarus and other states. They provide passenger communication between the city of Minsk, regional centers of the republic and capitals, as well as individual regions of other states.

The Belarusian Railway pays great attention to improving the quality of passenger service and updating the rolling stock. Within the framework of the State Program for the Development of Railway Transport of the Republic of Belarus for 2011-2015, the Belarusian Railways purchased 7 passenger diesel locomotives; 16 electric trains manufactured by the Swiss company Stadler Bussnang AG; 9 diesel trains of various composition developed by the Polish company PESA Bydgoszсz JSC.

The procedure for purchasing travel documents

The sale of tickets on the Belarusian Railways is fully automated and is carried out through the Express-3 automated control system.

For the implementation of travel documents for trains of regional lines of economy class and city lines using bank payment cards, self-service payment and information terminals have been installed.

In February 2011, a system for selling travel documents of the Belarusian Railway was put into operation on the website www.poezd.rw.by

Electronic registration has been introduced when buying tickets via the Internet, which allows a passenger to travel by train in accordance with an order paid via the Internet without issuing a travel document at the box office.

Benefits of transit

The advantageous geopolitical location of the Belarusian Railway at the crossroads of the II and IX pan-European transport corridors, at the junction of the 1435 mm and 1520 mm gauge determines its role as the most important link between the countries of Europe and Asia. Today, the priority activity of the Belarusian Railways is the development of transit traffic. The share of transit in the total volume of freight traffic along the Belarusian highway is about 30%.

In Belarus, a number of stable railway lines of transit cargo flows have been formed. First of all, this is the transportation of goods to the ports of Latvia along the Zaolsha-Bigosovo route, as well as in communication with the Kaliningrad region and Lithuania. Transportation to and from the EU countries within the framework of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. II, as well as between the countries of the Baltic and Black Seas within the framework of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. IX is important.

The transfer of goods to the Belarusian Railways in the East-West-East traffic is carried out at three border crossings: Brest-Terespol, Bruzgi-Kuznitsa Belostotskaya and Svisloch-Semyanuvka. On the border with Poland, the main capacities of the transshipment and storage infrastructure are concentrated, there is a significant potential for organizing the transshipment of bulk cargo. Cargo terminals provide a full range of services for the processing and storage of various types of cargo.

The Belarusian Railway is ready to provide reliable transport links between China and European countries, to become the optimal transport and logistics link in the implementation of large-scale projects in the field of economics and transport logistics.

Over the past years, the number of regular freight container trains running between China and Western Europe has been steadily growing. Today, the following trains run regularly on the Belarusian Railways:

• China - Poland (Chengdu-Lodz);
• China - Germany (Chengzhou - Hamburg);
• "New Silk Road" China - Germany (Chongqing-Duisburg);
• "BMW" Germany - China (Leipzig - Shenyang);
• Ford Germany - China (Duisburg - Chongqing);
• "Saule" Lithuania - China;
• China - Germany (Wuhan - Hamburg);
• China - Spain (Yiwu - Madrid).

Infrastructure Modernization

The strategic goal of the Belarusian Railways is the modernization of infrastructure. One of the most important projects in this area is the electrification of railway lines.

Today, the railway lines are fully electrified within the framework of the II pan-European transport corridor.

A large-scale investment project is being implemented to electrify the Gomel-Zhlobin-Osipovichi and Zhlobin-Kalinkovichi sections of the IX pan-European transport corridor. In September 2013, the first stage of this project was implemented - the Zhlobin-Osipovichi section was opened.

After the electrification of the Zhlobin-Gomel section is completed, the operational length of the electrified sections of the Belarusian Railway will be 1091.2 km or 19.5% of the total length of the highway.

In September 2015, the Belarusian Railways began electrification of the Molodechno-Gudogai-state border section.

Much attention is paid to the development of freight infrastructure. In 2015, the Belarusian Railways completed the modernization of the Kolyadichi City Goods Station, which is part of the Transport and Logistics Center Minsk, as a result of which its storage and handling capacities were significantly increased. Today, the Kolyadichi station is the most important link in the organization of export-import freight traffic on the Belarusian Railway, including container traffic. At the Kolyadichi station, cargo is processed and transshipped to the regions of Belarus, as well as to the CIS countries, the Baltic States and far abroad using the capabilities of rail and road transport.

Cooperation with foreign countries

The Belarusian Railway actively cooperates with the railway administrations of the CIS countries, the Baltic States, the European Union and far abroad, and also participates in the activities of such international transport organizations as:

• Council for Railway Transport of the Commonwealth Member States;
• Organization of Cooperation of Railways;
• International Union of Railways;
• Coordinating conference on planning and implementation of transportation in international passenger traffic
• International Association "Coordinating Council for Trans-Siberian Transportation".

Representative offices of the Belarusian Railways abroad:

• In Russian federation
  Russia, 125047, Moscow, pl. Tverskaya Zastava, 5a, office 219,
  Phone/fax (+7 499) 262 94 27,
  [email protected]

• in the Republic of Kazakhstan
  Kazakhstan, 010000, Astana, st. D. Kunaeva, 6,
  Tel. (+7 7172) 60 04 99, fax (+7 7172) 60 04 98,
  [email protected]

• in the Republic of Poland
  Republic of Poland, PL 00-681 Warsaw, ul. Hoza 63/67,
  Phone: tel./fax (+48 22) 47 44 080, tel. (+48 22) 47 44 822
  [email protected]

It is surprising that in the 21st century, in order to purchase a train ticket, it is easier to call the reservation number (although it is also not easy to get through to 151), book a ticket and stand in a 40-minute queue at the box office that very evening than to buy the coveted a three-click ticket on the Internet. There are much more clicks, and you risk just not going anywhere.

Just recently, I had to spend at least three hours of precious time to buy the coveted train ticket. I tell you how it all happened.

So you go to the Website of the Belarusian Railways, in the tab "Trains of international lines, interregional lines, regional business class lines" (thank you, it has become easy to find recently), enter points A and B of your route, choose a train and ... nothing not happening. The page of the selected train shows free seats, types of carriages, fare. There are back and back buttons.

To buy a ticket, you need to login. I remember that I registered on the site twice already, but why the third time I can’t find the window where to enter my login and password? .. After several minutes of wandering around the page, I find it in the second tab. Registering.

“Only Russian letters and special characters are allowed,” the site warns me when I try to enter the departure station before I can change the language from English to Russian. By the way, he is not friendly with the Belarusian either.

Next, I enter the stations, date, drive in the number of passengers (maximum 4 per operation). Another window opens where I can change the date and/or time of departure and click "continue". On the next page, I choose the type of car and seat from the available ones.

And on the next page they ask me for my full name, passport number and offer to introduce additional requirements for places (for example, indicate a specific place or ask for only the lower one). By the way, which is commendable, the system saves the data of previously entered passengers (for whom it was possible to buy tickets). Long live time saving!

But while I have not a single ticket purchased through the site, I click "continue", I click "continue" again on the "Checking details of the trip" page.

On the "Order Confirmation" page, I can choose a payment system for paying for the order. Internet banking of JSC “ASB Belarusbank” does not suit me, since I plan to pay with an Alfa-Bank card - therefore, I choose the “Settlement” system (AIS ERIP) and click “pay for the order”.

"It is necessary to pay for the order in the Calculation system within 20 minutes," the site warns me. The list of banks falls out.

Literally in 10 minutes I manage to call my bank, find out how to connect Internet banking (well, I didn’t need it before), I connect it. And then I understand that this is not enough - the card needs to be linked to the Self-Service Banking System (SBS). After all, the site of the "piece of iron" writes that the cardholders of my bank are served by SBS Internet banking. On the SBS website, which I select from the list, they require me to login and password. And of course, this is not the same login and password for Alfa-Bank Internet banking!

On the SBS website I read how to connect: I am offered to go to the nearest ATM in order to open access for Internet banking through it. Then get a check with a username and password at an ATM, enter it on the SBS website and "pay for access to the service within a year." For some reason, the partner bank's ATM does not want to give me access. Meanwhile, the BelZhD website sends a letter to the post office stating that "the order for the purchase of tickets has been canceled" (the time allotted for payment has expired).

There are no hopes to buy a ticket for the train, where exactly 6 seats are left. I had to quickly remember all my friends who could buy train tickets through the site. Suddenly they were more fortunate.

A savior has been found. She suggested a payment method through PLATI.TUT.BY, where one of the hundreds of sections is listed as "Payment for railway tickets" (however, I did not find a word about this payment method on the "piece of iron" website).

In the "pay" section, I enter the payment code, pay by card, and then click "Check payment" on the BelZhD website page. And I have the ticket order form in my hands. It is enough to print and ... exchange at the railway ticket office for a normal ticket. Here's an unexpected twist.

In order not to go to the ticket office, it turns out that you can perform electronic registration in your personal account on the site, but, unfortunately, it does not work for all directions - including this is impossible for the Lviv-Minsk train, for which I still managed to buy a ticket. "I CAN'T GET A TICKET AT THE STATION OF DEPARTURE", - appears in the additional information about my order. You will have to go to the cashier with your passport.

In general, it is not without reason that a video with instructions on how to buy tickets is posted on the "piece of iron" website in the "Information for Passengers" section, for which I did not have enough time. And now let's calculate how many actions I had to perform in order to buy a single ticket ...