How to get to Koktebel

1. On April 22, Aeroflot introduced fixed prices for economy class round-trip tickets between Moscow and Simferopol. All flights on these routes have the same price, including taxes and fees: a round-trip ticket costs 7,500 rubles and a one-way ticket costs 4,000 rubles.

2. Since April 26, Yakutia Airlines has operated flights to Simferopol from the airport in Krasnodar.

3. Starting June 8, air service on the Anapa-Simferopol route will begin. The Ak Bars Aero airline will offer seven subsidized flights a week. Basic one-way ticket fares will be 1,500 rubles.

4. From June 30 to September 29, S7 Airlines will introduce additional service to Simferopol, including a roundtrip flight from Novosibirsk. The company will operate direct flights from Novosibirsk to Simferopol on Wednesdays beginning June 11 2014 and on Fridays beginning June 27.

5. Russian air carrier, Red Wings, started selling tickets for roundtrip flights from Simferopol to Volgograd. Flights will be offered on Mondays and Thursdays from June 30.

6. Starting June 1, 2014, air travel was organized between Simferopol and 30 Russian cities (Nizhnevartovsk, Tyumen, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Nizhny Novgorod and others), with a total number of 330 flights a week.

Intermodal single ticket trips are available for journeys to Simferopol by train, ferry and bus, with stops in Kerch, Feodosiya and Sudak. Tickets are available at railway ticket offices.

Travelers arriving in Anapa or Krasnodar by train can transfer to a bus that will take them to the Kavkaz port. From here they ride a ferry across the Kerch Strait. Once on the peninsula, passengers can take a bus to one of seven Crimean cities — Simferopol, Sevastopol, Yevpatoriya, Yalta, Feodosiya, Sudak and Kerch.

Currently, four ferry boats — the Ionas, Kerchensky-2, Yeisk and Nikolai Aksyonenko — operate on the Port Kavkaz — Port Crimea route. The ships carry an average of 11,000-12,000 passengers and about 3,500 vehicles on 40 runs daily. New routes have been opened from Novorossiisk and Anapa, and a trial run of the Robur high-capacity train ferry has been conducted.

1. Daily bus service between the Lipetsk Region and the Republic of Crimea was launch.

Comfortable buses will connect Lipetsk and Yalta daily on the No. 700 route, departing from the Lipetsk bus terminal. Several stops are planned — the first one in Voronezh, and others every 200 kilometers. In Crimea, the route will pass through the main resort cities of Kerch, Feodosia, Alushta, Simferopol.

The bus ride will cost 2,800 rubles per passenger, including the ferry crossing.

2.Daily bus journeys, with stops in Koktebel, are available between Feodosiya and Sudak, Kurortnoye and Aeroport. There are several bus services a day from Koktebel to a railway station in Simferopol and one between Koktebel and Aeroport.

There is also an extensive network of private buses and taxis in Crimea.

On June 1, Anapa also started operating passenger ships to Yalta and Feodosia, the two major Crimean resorts.