Arrival

Saturday night arrival at Paveletsky Station.

Originally called Saratovsky Railway Station, the station was later named after the settlement of Pavelets, when the railroad heading south-east from Moscow reached that point in 1899. The building itself was completed in September 1900.

Paveletsky is famous for the train bearing Lenin's coffin back to Moscow, which arrived on 23 January 1924, and was subsequently placed on display (or in "eternal parking") in the station museum [official title: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Moscow_Railway]Museum of the Moscow Railway[/url]].

Trains heading to the Volga region, as well to Astrakhan and Almaty, leave from this station.