Border control in trains Allegro Petersburg - Helsinki - while driving

High-speed train Allegro, which will start operating regular flights between St. Petersburg and Helsinki, 12 December, will be the first in Russia, where it will be applied to a new scheme of border and customs control - during the movement ended. Monitoring will be carried out during the train from St. Petersburg to Vyborg, told Travel.ru vice president of Railways Michael Akulov. Travel time between these stations - exactly one hour. Brigades of border guards and customs officials will go before the departure of the train in the dining car - the third in the convoy. After which he divided into two groups, will start moving to the head and tail stock. One of the groups to be tested two cars, one of which business class, the second group - four cars. "Because the rules at the time of border control passengers can not travel on the train and must stay in their seats, this scheme will help make the process as easy as possible: the passengers of those cars that have been verified, will be able to go to a restaurant," - explained Michael Akulov. If passengers are found, which for some reason can not be issued from the country of their plant in Vyborg. Those passengers who intend to sit down at Allegro in Vyborg, pass the border and customs control at the station before boarding the train, which arrives on a dedicated platform, separated from the electric platforms, according to GSS. corr. Travel.ru. A similar scheme will be applied on the return journey: Passengers traveling from Finland to Vyborg, will control the Vyborg station, and the next to St. Petersburg - in the remainder of the hour's journey. At stations in both cities will be equipped with facilities for border and customs services. With regard to the Finnish border guards, their scheme works in principle will not change - they will check the passports of passengers on a segment of Vainikkala to Kouvola. The new control scheme will significantly reduce travel time by reducing the duration of stay in Viborg and the abolition of technical stop at the border Buslovskaya. It is not excluded that later a similar scheme can be applied to other routes. The most urgent it would be in the Ukrainian direction, which now trains are losing because of border control on the average about an hour. Of the major routes of the worst situation on the southern border crossing Assumption - Ilovaisk where the loss of time for each train is 70 minutes.