There are 13 ways to get from Russia to Lyon by plane, bus, train, car, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Moscow Vnukovo to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
best- Fly from Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane VKO - LYS
12h 56m€178–668Fly Krasnodar to Geneva International Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Krasnodar (KRR) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane KRR - GVA
- Take the train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieutrain
22h 18m€140–380Bus, train
- Take the bus from Moscow, International Bus Station to Warsaw Westbus
- Take the train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Berlin Gesundbrunnentrain Eic
- Take the train from S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf to Offenburg Bahnhoftrain 12
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Lyon Part Dieutrain Tgv
37h 55m€336–751Train, bus
- Take the train from Moskva Belorusskaia to Kaliningrad-Passajirsktrain
- Take the bus from Kaliningrad Bus station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminalbus 399
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Airport Busterminal to Mulhousebus
- Take the train from Mulhouse Ville to Lyon Part Dieutrain Tgv
2d 1h€261–426Drive 2,937.4 km
- Drive from Moscow to Lyoncar 2,937.4 km
29h 33m€470–679Fly Pulkovo Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Fly from Pulkovo Airport (LED) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane LED - LYS
13h 10m€188–718Fly Pulkovo Airport to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Pulkovo Airport (LED) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane LED - GVA
- Take the train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieutrain
13h 15m€147–366Fly Sheremetyevo International Airport to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane SVO - GVA
- Take the train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieutrain
14h 16m€149–382Fly Krasnodar to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Fly from Krasnodar (KRR) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane KRR - LYS
9h 17m€191–722Bus, train via Brussels
- Take the bus from Moscow, International Bus Station to Warsaw Westbus
- Take the train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Berlin Gesundbrunnentrain Eic
- Take the train from S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf to Köln Hbftrain 14
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Miditrain 79
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Lyon Part Dieutrain Tgv
38h 14m€406–841Bus
- Take the bus from Moscow, International Bus Station to Warsaw Westbus Moscow/Warsaw
- Take the bus from Warsaw, Bus Station West to Lyonbus N1326
45h 52m€226–391Bus via Munich
- Take the bus from Severnye Vorota Bus Terminal to Riga Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Riga, Bus Station to Munich central bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Munich Central Bus Station to Lyon Perrache Bus Stationbus
2d 13h€261–436Drive, car train
- Drive from Moscow to Lüneburgcar
- Take the cartrain from Lüneburg to Lörrach Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Lörrach Hbf to Lyoncar
36h 17m€461–648
Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Russia to Lyon is to fly and train which costs €140 - €370 and takes 13h 15m.
The fastest way to get from Russia to Lyon is to fly which takes 9h 17m and costs €190 - €750.
No, there is no direct bus from Russia station to Lyon. However, there are services departing from Moscow, International Bus Station and arriving at Lyon via Warsaw, Bus Station West. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 45h 52m.
The distance between Russia and Lyon is 2545 km. The road distance is 2937.4 km.
The best way to get from Russia to Lyon without a car is to bus and train which takes 37h 55m and costs €330 - €750.
It takes approximately 12h 56m to get from Russia to Lyon, including transfers.
Russia to Lyon bus services, operated by Bon Voyage, depart from Moscow, International Bus Station.
The best way to get from Russia to Lyon is to fly which takes 12h 56m and costs €170 - €700. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €220 - €400 and takes 45h 52m.
Russia to Lyon bus services, operated by Bon Voyage, arrive at Warsaw West station.
Yes, the driving distance between Russia to Lyon is 2937 km. It takes approximately 29h 33m to drive from Russia to Lyon.
What companies run services between Russia and Lyon, France?
Turkish Airlines, AJet, and Pegasus Airlines fly from Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) 4 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a subway from Biblioteka Imeni Lenina to Lyon via Salaryevo, Moscow, International Bus Station, Warsaw West, and Warsaw, Bus Station West in around 45h 52m.
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €200–550
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €200–550
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Geneva International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–500
Flights from Krasnodar to Geneva International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–490
Flights from Krasnodar to Geneva International Airport via Batumi, Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €180–500
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–700
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €170–750
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Geneva International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €160–650
Flights from Krasnodar to Geneva International Airport via Batumi, Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €140–600
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Geneva International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 17m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 2m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Sunday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Geneva International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Krasnodar to Geneva International Airport via Tbilisi
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 5m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €100–310
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
- Website
- ajet.com
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €160–650
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 30m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €170–700
- Website
- royalairmaroc.com
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Casablanca
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €320–550
Flights from Pulkovo Airport to Geneva International Airport via Casablanca
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €290–480
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from Krasnodar to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Erevan
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 45m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €170–700
- Website
- airalgerie.dz
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Algiers
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €270–800
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- sekretariat@intercity.pl
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Berlin Gesundbrunnen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–120
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Berlin Gesundbrunnen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–120
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf to Offenburg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 58m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €120–270
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 56m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–210
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–85
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Strasbourg to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €100–150
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Mulhouse Ville to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €150–230
- Website
- TGV inOui
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Strasbourg to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €85–150
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Mulhouse Ville to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €70–120
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Bellegarde to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- 8 (800) 775-00-00
- Website
- Russian Railways
Train from Moskva Belorusskaia to Kaliningrad-Passajirsk
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–75
- Website
- Russian Railways
- 1nd Class (SW)
- €160–230
- 3rd Class (Platzcart)
- €35–50
- 2nd Class (Kupé)
- €50–75
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €80–140
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
Car train from Lüneburg to Lörrach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 26m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100–120
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
- Phone
- +373 (689) 78-455
- bon_voyage_tour@list.ru
- Website
- bonvoyage.md
Bus from Moscow, International Bus Station to Warsaw West
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €67–134
- Schedules at
- bonvoyage.md
- Book at
- bonvoyage.md
- Adult
- €134
- Children
- €67
Bus from Moscow, International Bus Station to Warsaw West
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €67–134
- Schedules at
- bonvoyage.md
- Book at
- bonvoyage.md
- Adult
- €134
- Children
- €67
Bus from Moscow, International Bus Station to Warsaw West
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €67–134
- Schedules at
- bonvoyage.md
- Book at
- bonvoyage.md
- Adult
- €134
- Children
- €67
- Phone
- +7 (4012) 64-36-35
- info@avl39.ru
- Website
- avl39.ru
Bus from Kaliningrad Bus station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminal
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Stuttgart Airport Busterminal to Mulhouse
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €25–40
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Warsaw, Bus Station West to Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 20m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €160–250
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Riga, Bus Station to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 28h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €150–240
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Severnye Vorota Bus Terminal to Riga Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Schedules at
- ecolines.ru
- Book at
- ecolines.ru
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.com
- Website
- RegioJet
Bus from Munich Central Bus Station to Lyon Perrache Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €45–75
- Website
- RegioJet
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