As you noted by my announcements, I decided to arrange my friends’ roadtrip from Yakutsk to the Pole of Cold, Oymyakon. So… I was forced to come across some technical questions, like visa, air tickets, car rent, transfers, accommodation, etc. Man, so many things are to be done! Praise God, everything goes smoothly so far.
A train in Neryungri, South Yakutia
A few journey participants are already on the way to Yakutsk, they are coming by railways via Neryungri. Yesterday I started receiving urgent questions like “How to order a taxi to Yakutsk in Neryungri? Are there resting rooms at the railroad station?” Well, I immediately provided all the info I had, including those ones in already-published posts “How to get to Yakutsk by train and car?” and “Railroad stations in Yakutia?”
My friend’s next message sounded this way “One more question: Should I order the taxi in advance, or just when I arrive? Is it likely one will depart in the evening when I arrive, or will have have to wait until next morning? OK, that was two questions.”
I said to him. Let me book a cab for you. So I called a Neryungri-based taxi service, asked and… Oh, man! Rejoice, my readers! Everything appears much, much easier than I expected.
That’s what I wrote promptly in my reply:
“No need to order a taxi by phone, when you’ll arrive at the Neryungri train station. There are a huge bunch of taxi-drivers waiting for passengers with every train. Those cabs stand in line and pick up passengers one after another. All of them go to Yakutsk.”
“So you don’t need to spend night at the station or somewhere else in Neryungri. Everything seems to be done quickly. It is the matter of a few hours.”
“Btw, they, station’s drivers, do not allow other’s cabs to join them. A sort of monopoly. A ticket cost, as said, is around 3000-3500 rubles.”
“The regular price in winter, if you go from the town center and order a car by phone, is 2800-3000 rubles (in summer approx. 3500 rubles with the Lena River ferry fee included). In this case you have to go to downtown, order a taxi by phone and wait for it. Have no idea, how much time it can take.”
All a traveler must do, when arrived at the station, is to find the taxi (minivan or UAZ) drivers’ line and get into the first vehicle. That’s it.
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