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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sokol in depot: Морозов Л.Н.. Original uploader was Black leon at ru.wikipedia· CC BY 3.0
- 2. Museum of the Moscow Railway at Rizhskaya station in Moscow (07): NearEMPTiness· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Sokol (Сокол, Russian for "falcon") was a planned high-speed train in Russia. It was to be a successor of the ER200 for use on the Moscow–St. Petersburg mainline, and was designed to operate at a cruising speed of 250 km/h.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 59 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 26 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 350: 7 full city buses (~50 seats each).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 1
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- builders
- Transmashholding
- operators
- Russian Railways
- top speed
- 250 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- electric system
- 3 kV DC, , (dual voltage units) Overhead catenary
- formation
- 6 cars
- length
- 26 m
- weight
- 356 t
- capacity
- 350 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q248277, Wikipedia: Sokol (train) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.