Daily bus service Tallinn — Pskov

Baltic Shuttle operates a direct daily bus service from Tallinn to Pskov, departing at 07:20. The journey from Tallinn to Pskov by bus takes approximately eight hours, but depends on the time required for border and customs procedures.

The bus route passes through the Koidula → Kunichina Gora border crossing, which is open to motor traffic. The service is operated by a single bus, without crossing the border on foot.

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Route 950 Tallinn – Pskov timetable

* Arrival times for services are stated without allowing for additional time required to cross the border. Delays in bus arrivals are possible because of thorough border-control procedures. Take the possibility of delays into account when planning connections to other transport.

Departure and arrival times are given in local time. Summer time in Pskov is the same as in Tallinn.

About Tallinn – Pskov bus services

The bus departs from Tallinn Bus Station (Tallinna Bussijaam at Lastekodu 46) and arrives at Pskov Bus Station (21 Vokzalnaya Street) next to Pskov railway station.

Services to Pskov are operated by comfortable Volvo buses, equipped with a toilet, Wi-Fi and charging sockets. Saaremaa Vesi drinking water is available to passengers.

Travel from Tallinn to Tartu, and from Pechory to Pskov, is not possible on this route. Travel from Tallinn to Värska is possible for rest and treatment at Värska Sanatorium.

Buying Tallinn – Pskov bus tickets

Tickets can be bought online through the Baltic Shuttle ticketing system. Information on purchasing tickets online. Purchased tickets may be exchanged free of charge in the passenger’s Personal Account.

Bus tickets to Pskov and Pechory can also be bought at Tallinn Bus Station.

We accept payment by Visa and MasterCard bank cards, as well as PayPal payments.

The fare includes the carriage of baggage: one item of hand luggage (weighing up to 5 kg and measuring up to 45×35×20 cm), and one item of luggage (weighing up to 30 kg and measuring up to 180 cm as the sum of its three dimensions). An additional item of luggage may be paid for directly to the bus driver at a rate of €10 (or 1,000 roubles) per item.

Ticket discounts are available to children, young people and people aged 60 and over.

Crossing the Koidula → Kunichina Gora border

Information on the Koidula and Kunichina Gora border crossing points, as well as on Russia’s customs rules and sanctions restrictions is available on our website.

Bus passengers have priority in border control over people crossing the border on foot.

When crossing the border, passengers must take a number of restrictions and prohibitions into account:

• From 1 April 2024, the duty-free allowance for goods brought into Russia overland was reduced to €500 and 25 kg. If the allowance is exceeded, duty of 30% of the value of the goods, but not less than €4 per 1 kg, must be paid (where the goods are worth less than €500 but weigh more than 25 kg).
• A complete ban is in force on exporting all European Union Member State currencies to Russia at all border crossings between Estonia and Russia.
• Imports into Russia from Estonia of meat and dairy products in factory packaging, ready for consumption and weighing up to 5 kg per person, are currently permitted, except for any products containing pork, as well as dairy products manufactured in Hungary, Slovenia and the Netherlands.
• There is no permanent Rosselkhoznadzor veterinary-control facility at the Kunichina Gora multilateral automobile border crossing point. Customs officers are responsible for conducting veterinary, phytosanitary and sanitary-quarantine controls. There have been cases of pets being transported by bus through Kunichina Gora, but veterinary certificates for pets are not processed and full veterinary control is not carried out.
• Ukrainian citizens (including those who also hold Russian Federation citizenship) are prohibited from travelling through the Kunichina Gora border crossing. Bus travel is also not recommended for citizens of the Republic of Moldova. We therefore advise citizens of those countries not to buy tickets for our Tallinn–Pskov and Pskov–Tallinn services; we will have to refuse them carriage and refund their tickets. We apologise.

Crossing the border during lengthy border checks

The duration of passage through the Koidula → Kunichina Gora border crossing depends primarily on the number of passengers invited for an interview at the Kunichina Gora border crossing point.

If all passengers face a long wait to cross the border and may consequently miss connections to other forms of transport, passengers holding Russian citizenship who are on the bus at the Russian Kunichina Gora border crossing point may, after completing passport and customs control and notifying the driver, jointly obtain permission from a border-service officer to leave the Russian Kunichina Gora border crossing point independently by taxi.

A taxi rank is located at the border. Taxi services in Pskov Oblast may also be used: Maxim (telephone +7 8112 222 333, +7 8112 222 222) or Yandex Go (telephone +7 8112 331111). From the Kunichina Gora border crossing point, it is possible to take a taxi to Pechory Bus Station (then continue by bus to Pskov Bus Station; departures in Yandex Schedules) or to Pskov (railway station, bus station, airport).

Passengers purchase tickets with onward connections in Pskov according to the timetable. We proceed on the basis that delays cannot be unlimited. We warn that, if a passenger is delayed for document checks or for drawing up a customs report because the passenger has breached customs and border formalities, the bus will wait until 17:00. If by that time the passenger has not completed all formalities and border-service officers send the bus on from the border, the passenger will be left behind to complete the inspection procedure, while the bus, with all other passengers, will continue its journey.

Transit via Pskov

Passengers of Tallinn — Pskov buses can independently transfer to other types of transport to Moscow, St Petersburg and other destinations.

See our blog for information how to book trains, flights, and hotels in Russia using foreign bank cards.

Flights from Pskov

From Pskov airport there are daily flights to Moscow, operated by Azimuth Airlines. The airport flight schedule is available on the official website. You can buy tickets for flights within Russia with payment cards of non-Russian banks on the OneTwoTrip online travel service.

The cost of a taxi ride from the Pskov bus and railway station to the airport is 400 rubles.

Trains from Pskov

Three (four in summer) Lastochka trains run daily between Pskov and St Petersburg, the Pskov railway station is located next to the bus station. The train Pskov — Moscow departs daily at 19:23.

Taxi in Pskov

Taxi services in Pskov: Maxim (phone +7 8112 222 333, +7 8112 222 222), Yandex Taxi (phone +7 8112 331111).