Free travel on Aeroexpress trains

PROCEDURE FOR ISSUING TRAVEL DOCUMENTS TO PEOPLE RECEIVING SOCIAL SERVICES AND ENTITLED TO FREE TRAVEL ON AEROEXPRESS TRAINS IN MOSCOW AND MOSCOW OBLAST

1. GENERAL CONDITIONS

   1. The following categories of passengers are entitled to free travel on Aeroexpress trains in Moscow and Moscow Oblast:

      – Passengers entitled to social services funded by the federal government; and

      – People entitled to social services funded by the regional government.

   2. Free tickets are issued to people entitled to social services only for one-way and round trip journeys on the day of purchase.

   3. A single one-way ticket is valid for one journey along a preselected route on the date printed on the ticket. A round-trip ticket is valid for travelling to the destination on the day of purchase, and for making a return journey within 24 hours of the date of purchase.

2. 2. ISSUANCE OF TICKETS TO PASSENGERS RECEIVING SOCIAL SERVICES FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

   1. Passengers receiving social services funded by the federal government may receive a single one-way or round-trip free travel ticket, upon presentation of the following documents to the ticket clerk:

      – a proof of identity (passport);

      – a certificate, confirming the right to free social services; and

      – a certificate issued by the Social Security Authority of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, containing the national insurance number of an individual personal account (SNILS); and

      – a Muscovite’s Social Card - only for residents of Moscow; and

      – a Muscovite’s Social Card - only for residents of Moscow Oblast.

   2. Should the Muscovite’s Social Card be in the process of being issued or reissued, tickets are issued, provided the following documents are presented by the passenger to the ticket clerk:

      – a proof of identity (passport);

      – a certificate, confirming the right to free social services; and

      – a certificate in a standard form issued by the Regional Administration for Social Security in Moscow or the Ministry of Social Security in Moscow Oblast. The certificate is valid for thirty (30) days from its date of issue.

3. THE BELOW LIST DETAILS PEOPLE ENTITLED TO SOCIAL SERVICES FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND FREE TRAVEL ON AEROEXPRESS TRAINS:

1) Disabled war veterans;

2) Former underaged prisoners of internment camps, ghettos, and other places of forced imprisonment;

3) Participants of the Great Patriotic War;

4) Active military service veterans, as set out in Subitems 1-4, Item 1, Article 3 of the Federal Law ‘On Veterans’;

5) Servicemen, who had been serving in military units and military educational institutions that were not parts of the serving armed forces for at least six months from 22.06.1941 to 03.09.1945 as well as servicemen awarded with USSR orders and medals for service during that period;

6) People awarded with the badge ‘Resident of blockaded Leningrad’;

7) Wartime workers who worked at air defence and local air defence facilities and constructed defence facilities, naval bases, aerodromes, and other military facilities in the territories of active war fronts, operational zones of active fleets, and at the front-line sections of railways and highways during the Great Patriotic War as well as members of fleet crews interned at foreign ports during the Great Patriotic War;

8) Members of the families of deceased disabled war veterans, participants of the Great Patriotic War and military veterans, members of the families of self-defence group personnel, facility and emergency crews of the local Air Defence Forces as well as members of the families of deceased workers of hospitals and military hospitals in Leningrad;

9) Disabled war veterans;

10) Disabled children;

11) Passengers, who are accompanying group I disabled passengers and disabled children;

12) People exposed to high amounts of radiation after the Chernobyl nuclear accident and nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, as well as equated categories of people.

13) Orphaned children and students of federal state education institutions deprived of parental care;

14) Heroes of the Soviet Union, Heroes of the Russian Federation, and full Cavalier of the Order of Glory; and

15) Heroes of Socialist Labour and full Cavalier of the Labour Order.

This list is subject to changes, should laws of the Russian Federation be amended.

4. ISSUANCE OF TICKETS TO PASSENGERS RECEIVING SOCIAL SERVICES FUNDED BY THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT

   1. Passengers receiving social services funded by the regional government may receive a single one-way or round-trip free travel ticket, upon presentation of the following documents to the ticket clerk:

      – a proof of identity (passport);

      – a certificate, confirming the right to free social services; and

      – a Muscovite’s Social Card.

   2. Should the Muscovite’s Social Card be in the process of being issued or reissued, a single free travel ticket can be issued by the ticket clerk, provided the following documents are presented by the passenger:

      – a proof of identity (passport);

      – a certificate, confirming the right to free social services; and

      – a certificate issued by the Regional Administration for Social Security of Moscow Residents. The certificate is valid for thirty (30) days from its date of issue.

5. THE BELOW LIST DETAILS PEOPLE ENTITLED TO SOCIAL SERVICES FUNDED BY THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT, AND FREE TRAVEL ON AEROEXPRESS TRAINS (RESIDENTS OF MOSCOW):

1) Workers of the home front - people who had been working at the home front from 22 September 1941 to 9 May 1945 for at least six months, except for the periods of working in the occupied territories of the USSR and/or people who were awarded with USSR orders and/or medals for dedicated service during the Great Patriotic War (paragraph 1, part 1, article 3 of Law of Moscow No.70 ‘On Measures of Social Support Provided to Certain Categories of Moscow Residents’);

2) Veterans of work and equated people as at 31 December 2004 (paragraph 2, part 1 of Law of Moscow No.70 ‘On Measures of Social Support Provided to Certain Categories of Moscow Residents’), including:

a) People awarded with USSR orders and/or medals, or conferred with honorary ranks of the USSR or the Russian Federation, or awarded with departmental labour decorations, who served long enough to receive the old age pension or the retirement pension.

б) People who started working during the Great Patriotic War and were minors at the time, and had worked for at least 40 (forty) years (if men) and 35 (thirty-five) years (if women);

в) Military service veterans;

г) People who have certificates of veterans of work.

3) Rehabilitees who are now retired (paragraph 3, part 1, article 3 of Law of Moscow No.70 ‘On Measures of Social Support Provided to Certain Categories of Moscow Residents’), including:

а) People who suffered from repression through imprisonment, expulsion, exile, forced settlement, forced labour in conditions of imprisonment (including NKVD labour columns), other human rights violations, forced treatment in psychiatric hospitals and who were later rehabilitated;

б) Children who suffered from political repression through imprisonment, expulsion, exile, and forced settlement together with their parents or guardians, or minors who were deprived of care from one or both parents who had been groundlessly repressed due to political reasons and who were later rehabilitated.

4) People declared to be victims of groundless political repression: children, spouses (not remarried), parents of those people who died while still imprisoned and were posthumously rehabilitated (paragraph 4, part 1, article 3 of Law of Moscow No.70 ‘On Measures of Social Support Provided to Certain Categories of Moscow Residents’).

This list is subject to changes, should laws of the Russian Federation be amended.