Taganrog

By plane

• Taganrog Yuzhny AirportA small regional airport with flights only from Moscow and a few local villages.

• Rostov-on-Don Airport

  address: nearby Rostov-on-the-Don
  Might be a much better option for arrival by air is to take a flight to the larger, which have good international connections with Europe.

By train

Reaching Taganrog by rail usually requires a change of trains in Rostov-on-the-Don which is an important rail hub. A few direct trains heading to the Black Sea cost makes stop-overs here but they are usually only running during summer season. However, commuter trains from Rostov-on-the-Don departs hourly during the day with a journey time of just two hours.

By bus

There is also a developed network of shuttle bus service from Rostov-on-the-Don and other neighboring cities and villages of Rostov Oblast and across the border from Ukraine.

By car

• When traveling from Moscow, take federal route M4 up to Rostov-on-the-Don, after Rostov take route Е58-М23 in direction of Taganrog (around 45 miles).
• When traveling from the Ukraine, pass through Mariupol, Novoazovsk and cross the border checkpoint at Novoazovsk. After the Ukainian/Russian border, go around 35 miles on route M23 to Taganrog.

• Taganrog's main and most popular public transport is tramway. It has a network of 9 lines.

There are eight museums in the city: Alferaki Palace, Taganrog Museum of Art, Birth house of Anton Chekhov memorial museum, Taganrog City Architectural Development Museum, Ivan Vasilenko Museum, Chekhov Gymnasium, Anatoly Durov Museum, The Chekhov Shop.

Theaters

• Taganrog Chekhov Drama Theater

  phone: +7 8634 383-573
  address: Ulitsa Petrovskaya 90
  The oldest drama theater in the South of Russia (founded in 1827)

Parks

• Gorky Park

• Primorsky Park

  address: Instrumentalnaya Street

• Freken Bok Cafe

  phone: +7 8634 310440
  address: Turgenevsky 24
  The cafe for children and grown-ups stylized using the theme of Astrid Lindgren's "Karlsson-on-the-Roof". Named after Fröken Hildur Bock, the Lillebror's sitter. The book of the Swedish writer became a huge success in the Soviet Union after the 1968 and 1970s cartoons where Fröken Bock was voiced by the Taganrog-born actress Faina Ranevskaya.

• Two Pounds

  phone: +7 8634 681904
  address: Ulitsa Chekhova 43
  an English-style pub offering beer, live music, tv broadcasts of soccer matches and the game of darts. Live concerts start at 8PM.

• Hotel Taganrog

  phone: +7 8634 683000
  address: ul. Dzerzinskovo,161

• Golden Coast

  phone: +7 8634 311-357
  address: ul. Schmidta 16A

• Temirinda

  phone: +7 8634 321-122
  address: Ulitsa Portovaya 1-2

• Bristol

  phone: +7 8634 383-022, +7 8634 314-405
  address: Ulitsa Petrovskaya 64

• Varvaci

  phone: +7 8634319-001, +7 8634 365-003
  address: Ulitsa Grecheskaya 76