Grozny plans to open a bus service with Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan

ASTANA-GROZNY. May 30. KAZINFORM - The Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Chechnya has been working on opening international bus service with Kazakhstan's Atyrau and the capital of Azerbaijan - Baku city.

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This has been announced today by the press-service of the Head of the Chechen Republic.

According to the head of the transport department Ramzan Cherhigova, currently there are negotiations on opening inter-regional bus routes. In addition, the bus service is also planned to start with the St. Petersburg and Kazan (Russia).

"Today, the buses are running from Grozny to Moscow, Yaroslavl, Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Rostov, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Kislovodsk and other cities. In March of this year, there started to operate one international bus route "Grozny - Bonn - Aachen", " said R.Cherhigov.

The head of the transport department said that special attention in trends of transport development Chechnya has given to the quality of vehicles, passenger service and safety.

To do this, the minister said, it is necessary to regularly update the bus fleet, to build a new bus station, bus stations, to create high-tech control centers and other modern technological means.

R. Cherhigov noted that the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Czech Republic bought and utilized at various routes 100 comfortable buses of "Ford Transit".

"In addition, four buses MAN-LYON have been purchased, which are recognized as the best in Europe, two buses NICER and 227 units of bus PAZ - 32054. In April of this year, the region's fleet has increased at the expense of the republican budget with another 28 buses of small class "B" - 222702 on the basis of "Ford Transit", said R. Cherhigov.