How to get to Pyatigorsk from the airport

Mineralnye Vody airport is located 25 kilometers from Pyatigorsk (Mineralnye Vody airport on the map). You can get to Pyatigorsk from the airport by taxi or by ordering a tourist transfer, bus or train with a transfer in Mineralnye Vody. There is no direct public transport from the airport to the resort. Here is a general infographic of How to get to Pyatigorsk, and then separately about each way to get there:

Taxi or tourist transfer

• 🕐 travel time: 30 minutes
• 💵 cost: from 450 rubles (depending on the time of day and type of taxi)
• 🕐 working time: around the clock

You can order a taxi at the counter in the arrival terminal, directly from taxi drivers on the street in the airport parking lot or when leaving the territory, but it is cheaper through the Yandex.Taxi or Uber applications.

You can order a tourist transfer through the search form from Kiwitaxi or by clicking on the links on the sites:

• 🚕 tourist taxi-transfer to Pyatigorsk on Kiwitaxi
• 🚕 tourist taxi-transfer to Pyatigorsk on Intui.travel

By bus

• 🕐 travel time: more than 1 hour
• 💵 cost: from 85 rubles
• 🕐 working time: from 6:00 to 17:30

By bus you will have to go with a transfer to Mineralnye Vody. There are two ways:

• By city bus No. 11 from the airport (run from 6 am to 19:30 every 20-30 minutes, travel 20 rubles, stop at the airport opposite the arrival terminal near the fountain) get to the stop "Stometrovka" next to the railway station (stop on the map. From this stop in Pyatigorsk from 07:00 to 19:00 every 20-30 minutes bus number 223 departs, the cost of 44 rubles, one hour on the way. It goes to Pyatigorsk through the tourist area of Tsvetnik, and ends the movement at the railway station. In addition to No. 223, buses No. 224 and No. 118b also depart from Stometrovka, but they do not go to the tourist area, but to the lira market on the eastern outskirts of the city, from where you will have to get to the tourist area by taxi or city buses.
• By city bus No. 11 (run from 6 am to 19:30 every 20-30 minutes, travel 20 rubles, stop at the airport opposite the arrival terminal near the fountain) from the airport to get to the Ruslan market, where the Minvod bus station is located. From the bus station to Pyatigorsk during the day, according to the schedule, buses depart approximately every 20-60 minutes a day, 1 hour on the way, the cost starts from 60 rubles. Here is the exact schedule – kmvavto.ru/schedule/mineral-water/. They go to the Pyatigorsk bus station directly to the tourist area (Pyatigorsk bus station on the map).

By train

• 🕐 travel time: more than 1 hour
• 💵 cost: from 90 rubles
• 🕐 working time: from 6:00 to 19:30

The train will also have to go with a transfer through Mineralnye Vody.

First, take the city bus number 11 (run from 6 am to 19:30 every 20-30 minutes, travel 20 rubles, stop at the airport opposite the arrival terminal near the fountain) from the airport to get to the final stop next to the railway station Mineralnye Vody. At the station take the train to Pyatigorsk. Trains run often on schedule, here is the schedule - here. Along the route there are both ordinary slow trains (40 minutes on the way, 70 USD) and high-speed electric trains "Lastochka" (22 minutes, 72 USD).

In Pyatigorsk, trains arrive at the railway station (Pyatigorsk railway station on the map), from where you can get to hotels in the tourist area by taxi for 100 rubles, bus number 1 or trams number 1, 3, 5 for 21 rubles.