Traveling children in the metro in Moscow – topic relevant to many residents of the capital. After all, the vast majority of them are parents and regularly use the services of the subway. Do I have to pay for a child on the subway? And if so, at what age and how much? This is what primarily worries Muscovites in this context. How are things going in 2017?

Rules for the passage of children in the Moscow metro, what does the law say?

The rules for the passage of children in exactly the same as in other types of public transport. That is, in city and suburban buses, fixed-route taxis, trolleybuses and trams. The standards were developed in accordance with the law providing for preferential travel for children (Civil Code of Russia, Article 786). And this is where misunderstandings often arise between drivers and conductors of vehicles and parents who, referring to this document, refuse to pay for the child.

The above article simply states that minors are entitled to benefits. But to what exactly - there is no answer. More specifically, the rules are set out in Federal Law No. 259-FZ, which states that the state guarantees free pass for children in the Moscow metro, as well as in other types of public urban and suburban transport. And of course, not only in the capital. But only a child under the age of seven enjoys such a right. And he is not provided with a separate seat in the vehicle.

Important nuances

There are several important points that parents should be aware of. Firstly, according to the regulations, one adult can carry only one child in this way! If, for example, two children under seven years old are traveling with their mother, one of them will have to be paid for, since it will not be possible to take both of them in their arms - this will be contrary to the rules of safe transportation.

Second moment. The right to free use of the metro is given not to an adult, but to a child. Therefore, from the point of view of the law, it does not matter at all who exactly the baby is traveling with - with a parent, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, older brother or a stranger.

Well, the third moment. In order for a child to use the right to free travel, an accompanying adult must present a birth certificate. And in this case, only the original is suitable. A photocopy is not good.

Children of unprotected categories can also use the metro free of charge: those brought up in large families, orphans and the disabled. As for minors older than seven and not belonging to the above groups, then you need to pay for them. Moreover, the fare for children in the Moscow metro is exactly the same as for adults.

Traveling by any means of transport is troublesome and expensive. And traveling with children is also very responsible.

In order not to face insurmountable problems at the time of departure, not to spend extra money on transporting a child, you should be familiar with all the rules and benefits that apply to children in advance.

To date, there is no single instruction governing the rules for the trip of babies. Each type of transport has its own benefits.

We travel for free

The main criterion for the free travel of a child in transport is the age and the absence of the need to provide such a passenger with a separate sitting or lying place.

Age limits vary from 2 to 7 years, depending on the type of transport:

• In the urban(buses, trolleybuses, trams, metro) and suburban(buses, electric trains) messages, the benefit for free travel applies to children under 7 years old, a separate seat is not provided.
• Children under 5 years old can travel free of charge on intercity buses but only in the hands of the parents.
• Trains allow free travel up to 5 years without providing a separate place.
• Traveling by air and sea transport of international traffic, you can count on a free ticket only for infants under 2 years old. In some cases, this benefit is not provided by the carrier service, but significant discounts of up to 90% are possible.

Features of the acquisition of transport documents for preschoolers

You do not need to issue a separate ticket for free travel on the bus. It is enough to have with you a document confirming the age of the child to whom the benefit applies.

When boarding the train, you will definitely need a transport document for the baby. The presence of a ticket entitles the child to free travel without a seat.

You can create such a document:

• during electronic registration, indicating the passport details of the accompanying person;
• just before departure at the box office by presenting a ticket (electronic or paper) for an adult.

Important! One adult ticket provides for the issuance of one children's free document. If more discounted children's tickets need to be issued, the travel document of another accompanying person must be presented, or a ticket with a seat must be purchased at the rates for children from 5 to 10 years old.

Age restrictions for free train travel

A small child is much more comfortable on the road next to their parents. But the long road is very exhausting for both children and adults.

Deciding to travel by train with a baby under 5 years old, you need to weigh all the factors well and make a choice between comfort and economy.

A child under 5 years old when traveling by train in the territory Russian Federation Can:

• issue a free travel document on the basis of a ticket accompanying person without providing a bed;
• purchase a "child ticket" with a guaranteed seat, taking advantage of the age discount (30 - 65%)

These rules apply to trains traveling within the country. When crossing the border, benefits and conditions for issuing travel documents vary significantly.

Consider this factor when planning your travel expenses:

• CIS countries, Baltics. Tariffs and travel conditions for children are identical to those in Russia.
• Ukraine. Age restrictions for children do not differ. But the issuance of a travel document is possible only on the territory of Ukraine in person.
• Finland. The exemption for free travel without a seat applies to children under 6 years old, a "child ticket" - up to 17. Documents for the travel of children are issued together with an adult ticket.
• Far Abroad. Four years - age limit for a trip without payment, up to 12 years old you can travel at children's rates. Tickets for children are purchased together with adult travel documents.

Benefits for children

In addition to free travel for babies, trains provide significant discounts and benefits for children. school age.

Children of primary school age (5 - 10 years old):

Important! For purchase child ticket with a discount, a document confirming the age of the child is required.

Adolescents over 10 years of age:

1. Older school children need purchase a full adult ticket.
2. During the study period(October 1 - May 15) for this age category a discount of 50% of the total cost is granted.
3. Issue a discounted student card only available at the box office.
4. Travel teenagers over 10 years old can on their own.

Important! You can use the student ticket discount only if you have a certificate from the educational institution.

Documents for purchasing children's tickets

When going on a trip with a child, you need to check or complete all the necessary documents:

1. Original birth certificate for children under 14;
2. Passport of a Russian citizen of full age;
3. Certificate from the educational institution for the purchase of a ticket children over 10 years of age during the benefit period;
4. Permission to take a child abroad by one of the parents is not required. An exception is the presence of an application from the second parent for an export ban in the border service;
5. Consent of parents (guardians), certified by a notary to leave minor child outside the country independently;
6. Documents confirming relationship, when crossing the border with relatives;
7. Notarized power of attorney from the parents for the export of the child from the country by accompanying persons.

Traveling with children is better to think through to the smallest detail, and the purchase of suitable tickets cannot be attributed to an insignificant issue:

1. Sale of tickets, including children's, preferential, starts 45 days in advance. If you know the date of the trip, it is better to choose and purchase suitable tickets in advance.
2. It is convenient to use the online ticket booking service.
3. Determine which type of carriage is more suitable for traveling with a baby. Someone likes the space in the reserved seat, but someone better to retire with a child in a compartment.
4. Familiarize yourself with the location of the seats in the car, and it is advisable for the child not to order tickets for the upper, side shelves and at the toilet.
5. By purchasing a ticket, check all the data in it.
6. Remember that you can buy tickets in both directions, this will save money.

There are many features in the design of children's travel documents. Check the rules and requirements for a children's trip in advance. And no surprise will overshadow your journey with the baby.

Students of higher and general education educational institutions belong to a special category of the population. They are entitled to certain types of benefits.

One of the most popular methods of state support is a discount on travel in public transport. Who can take advantage of this type of benefit and how to do it?

The legislative framework

The provision of concessionary travel to students is regulated by federal law.

But separate normative acts, according to which benefits are provided, are issued by each region independently. The size of the discount and types of public transport will be determined regionally.

A unified system of benefits throughout Russia operates for railway and air tickets. The size and percentage of discounts for this type of transport communication are set federally.

Kind of transport

Reduced travel is provided to schoolchildren for all types of public transport:

Discounts provided

The amount of benefits is set by each region independently.

General indicators are used only for the purchase of railway or air tickets:

Some regions have their own travel rules. For example, in Kurgan, schoolchildren receive free travel vouchers for public transport. The same opportunity is given to full-time students. The same situation is developing in Anadyr and the Arkhangelsk region.

Package of documents

To purchase a concessionary travel pass, a student must present certificate from school confirming that he is being trained there. In the subway, the child must present such a document with each purchase of a ticket, in addition, the subway requires additional confirmation of identity, that is, the presentation of a birth certificate or passport.

Preferential payment by social card

In Moscow, schoolchildren can apply social card. What it is? A social card is a plastic card that is issued to a certain category of the population eligible for benefits. The most popular benefit for schoolchildren, which is provided by the social card, is discounts on public transport.

A student who has a social card has the right to purchase a metro pass for a month in the amount of 350 rubles. A ticket for buses, trolleybuses and trams will cost him only 230 rubles. Also, the cardholder is entitled to additional discounts on suburban buses during the school year.

Registration procedure in Moscow

To apply for a card, you must submit an application either through the MFC or on the public services portal.

All students can use this card, including full-time students. Children over 14 years old can apply on their own, a passport is required for this. For students under 14 years of age, the application is made through a legal representative. You must have a birth certificate with you.

To apply for a social card, the student must bring a photo 3 * 4, or you can take a picture on the spot.

Card production time is 30 days. For this period, the student can receive a certificate from the MFC for the right to preferential travel in ground public transport. In the metro, with such a certificate, it will not be possible to purchase a reduced ticket. In the metro, you can get a discount only with an expired card. For this, at the very last month expires, you must purchase a monthly ticket, in which case it will be sold at a discount.

Discounts on public transport are always very relevant for families, especially those with more than one child. Therefore, despite the crisis in the economy, benefits continue to be maintained, and in many regions they are only expanding.

The following video tells about preferential travel in public transport for schoolchildren and pensioners in Nizhny Tagil:

Most of us use public transport at least occasionally. Traveling by public transport is one of the components of the life of members of civil society. And therefore it is regulated by the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Everyone knows that the law provides for the right to preferential travel for children. But it turned out that citizens-passengers do not understand very well how exactly their duties and rights are formulated. Often in transport there are conflicts between passengers with children and conductors or drivers.

In these discussions of rights and obligations, both parties may interpret the question of how old you are entitled to an unpaid trip, whether an unpaid child has the right to sit separately, whether an adult can put all the children traveling with him on his lap and not pay for them. Consider what the law says about this: how free travel for minors in public transport is carried out in 2017.

According to Article 786 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which regulates the contract for the carriage of passengers by public transport, each adult passenger using transport has the right to unpaid or preferential transportation of children. The types of public transport include city trolleybuses, buses, metro and trams. This article of the Civil Code only mentions the right to travel benefits for passengers with children.

In more detail, the possibility of travel benefits is considered by Federal Law No. 259-FZ, approved in November 2007. The 21st article of this law stipulates the right to an unpaid trip in public transport on urban and suburban routes for children under 7 years of age.

Everyone knows about the right of free travel for children under seven years old. But parents need to remember that:

• free travel is carried out without providing the child with a separate seat. This means that a child traveling on public transport without payment does not have the right to take a separate seat. Parents or those accompanying the child are required to keep him on his knees;
• this applies to one child. The right to unpaid travel applies to one child not older than seven years old, accompanied by one adult. If more children under the age of seven are traveling accompanied by an adult, then the opportunity to transport a child without providing a seat can be used only in relation to one. This restriction is related to the safety of transportation - the child must ride sitting;
• entitlement to payment relief. If the trip of a child without providing a separate seat in transport is prohibited, parents or accompanying persons have the right to transport two children under twelve years of age with the provision of benefits when paying - the fare is set to no more than 50% of the established full fare;
• supporting documents. The requirement of the conductor or driver to present a document confirming the right of the child to travel free of charge - a birth certificate, is legitimate. The legitimacy of this requirement is noted by the same Article 21 of the Federal Law of the Charter of Transport. Therefore, you should not be outraged by the legal requirements of the conductor or controller - the passenger must have documents confirming the child's right to free travel. And teaching a child to lie, hiding his age, is also wrong from an educational point of view;
• The child has the right not to pay the fare, not the parent. Whoever travels with a child under the age of seven, he enjoys the right not to pay for the trip;
• preschoolers and children under seven years of age are different concepts. Children under the age of 7 have the right to travel free of charge. The fact whether they have already gone to school or not yet does not matter;
• What do you mean no more than seven years old? A child becomes older than seven years even the next day after his birthday: he is already seven years and one day old. The last date when the right to free travel is valid is the seventh birthday of the child.

Socially unprotected citizens - disabled people, large families, orphans - have the right to additional support from the state. Children from large families- upon submission of relevant documents. Orphans and disabled children also have preferential travel. Travel benefits are maintained from the moment of registration until the age of eighteen for disabled people.

Children who have lost their breadwinner enjoy the right to reduce travel expenses until they reach adulthood. If they are students, then the benefit period is extended to 23 years. The same applies to orphans.

Benefits for children to travel in urban public transport (bus, metro, tram, trolleybus)

Free travel for children in urban and suburban public transport is allowed for children no older than seven years old, without providing a separate seat, in intercity transport, the same conditions apply for children no older than five years old. Also, if children cannot be transported in any mode of transport without providing a separate seat, then the passenger is given the right to transport two children under the age of twelve with separate seats provided to them at a 50% discount (Resolution No. 259-FZ of the Charter road transport and urban ground electric transport).

Children's tickets for socially unprotected categories of citizens

Children from large families are provided with benefits for free travel on trams, trolleybuses, the metro, as well as city taxis (this does not apply to regular taxis). In addition, these benefits apply to students of secondary schools for travel in buses of intracity routes (Presidential Decree No. 431"On measures of social support for large families" ). For disabled children and orphans, there are privileges for travel in public transport, which, after receiving them, remain until the age of eighteen. And for children who have lost their breadwinner, benefits remain until adulthood, for university students up to twenty-three years. For orphans up to twenty-three years of age on the same terms.

Benefits for travel in railway transport

A train passenger has the right to provide free travel for one child not older than five years of age, provided that he does not occupy a separate seat in compartment cars, SV cars, common seated or reserved seats, and, moreover, not older than ten years old in luxury cars. In addition, any passenger has the right to travel for children aged five to ten years in separate seats, with payment for the corresponding child rate with a discount for domestic destinations, as well as for the Baltic and CIS countries (the amount of the discount depends on the type of train, category, wagon class, service, and travel distance):

• Children are entitled to free travel in domestic deluxe carriages.
• 65% discount for travel in SV carriages, compartments, second-class carriages, as well as general seated carriages of domestic traffic.
• Preferential travel for children in interstate traffic (foreign countries).

To issue a discount ticket for a child, you must present a birth certificate.

In addition, the right to preferential travel on trains also have pupils of general education schools under the age of ten. They can get a 50% discount on tickets in reserved seat and common carriages of long-distance passenger and fast trains, as well as in carriages of 1-3 classes, trains of the 800th numbering of long-distance domestic traffic. When traveling in ordinary fast trains and branded passenger trains, similarly, half the ticket price is paid.

To obtain preferential travel documents, it is necessary to have a certificate of a student, or a pupil of full-time education.

Children's plane tickets

All airlines have discounts and benefits on air tickets for children. On domestic as well as international flights children under two years old are transported by their parents absolutely free of charge without giving them a separate place. If parents are transporting two or more children, then starting from the second, they are provided with separate seats and only half the cost of the ticket is paid without the right to carry baggage free of charge. Also, children aged two to twelve years are entitled to flights with a discount of not more than 50% of the ticket price, while they are entitled to a separate seat and twenty kilograms of baggage, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 106 of the Air Code of the Russian Federation.

For transportation of unaccompanied children, each company individually determines the conditions for granting benefits, since each company has its own technology and its own rules for transporting unaccompanied children.

It is worth recalling that when transporting a child abroad, he must have a issued foreign passport, or be entered in the passport of one of the parents, so that there are no problems when passing through passport and visa control.

Benefits for children on water transport

There are also preferential terms for transporting children by water. On the territory of the country, children have the right to free travel without providing a separate seat. On foreign routes, children are served at a discount - at a special rate. Children under twelve years of age have the right to travel with a 50% discount, with the provision of a separate seat for them, in accordance with Article 181, paragraph 2 of the Merchant Shipping Code of the Russian Federation.