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Oh, road romance! The wheels tap peacefully, attractive landscapes flash outside the window, cities, and maybe even countries, change... You ride around the world or country, and they even pay money for it. Which travel lover has not found the job of a train conductor attractive? How is it really? What is the conductor's salary? How to become one? What are the responsibilities? If all this interests you, welcome to the article.

Average salary of a conductor

Let’s immediately take the bull by the horns and deal with the most pressing issue. It is possible that after this section, most readers will not even want to delve further into the topic. So why languish?

The conductor's salary is hourly. According to Russian Railways rules, there is a limit on the number of shifts per month - 15, while the standard hours are 176.

The amount of payment depends on the category of the train (they pay more for work on international flights), season, distance, complexity of the flight, number of night trips, region and much more. There may be additional payments for length of service, direction, for fulfilling a sales plan, bonuses, and in some regions a regional coefficient is charged.

For 2017, the minimum payment is about 11,500 rubles, and the maximum that you can realistically count on is 33,000 rubles. If we talk about the average salary of a long-distance train conductor, it is just over 22 thousand rubles per month. Such data are provided for Russia.

If these numbers don't scare you, let's study the topic in more detail.

Benefits for Russian Railways employees

But the Russian Railways conductor does not live on his salary alone. Working in this structure is largely motivated by benefits. They are provided not only to conductors, but to all workers. There are several groups of benefits:

  • social;
  • labor;
  • on wages;
  • on labor protection;
  • social guarantees.

As you can see, there are a lot of them. We will not list everything; the full list can be found in specialized materials or directly when applying for a job; we will name only the most “delicious”.

Education (higher or retraining) is paid by correspondence. Twice a year, free travel to and from your place of study is guaranteed.

Those in need of housing are allocated housing from the Russian Railways fund. There are assistance programs for young employees.

It is indexed annually (even twice in 2017), holidays are paid at an increased rate, and annual paid leave is provided (28 days).

Workers are paid for special clothing, medical examinations and medical examinations, travel and accommodation.

Young mothers are paid an additional benefit in addition to that provided by the Social Insurance Fund. They pay it for up to 3 years.

The company partially compensates for the costs of:

  • treatment in sanatoriums;
  • teaching children;
  • sports activities for employees and their children.

Loans and subsidies with preferential terms are provided for those purchasing housing.

After retirement, employees remain entitled to a number of bonuses (subject to the required length of service). These include discounted travel, treatment, trips to a sanatorium and much more.

Agree that all this gives an increase to the conductor’s salary.

How to get a job as a guide

This is not difficult to do. The applicant must have at least a secondary education. Special training is also required, which can be obtained at a school, college or technical school in the direction of “Passenger Car Conductor”. There is an opportunity to take preparatory courses. A medical examination, passing exams on safety precautions and labor protection are also required; you also need to successfully pass testing and pass a competition.

For those who want to try themselves in this profession and find out how much conductors actually earn, there is the opportunity to become a temporary employee. Such recruitments are carried out every year during the peak period in the summer months, when additional trains are formed.

As you can see, there are enough requirements, despite the fact that the conductor’s salary, even with a heavy workload, is low. But nevertheless, only candidates who meet all the requirements and really want to work on the railway are accepted for this position.

Experienced people say that the profession of a Russian Railways conductor combines several things: you need to be a waiter, a loader, a cleaner, and a psychologist at the same time.

Requirements for a candidate

Work experience is desirable, but without experience it is quite possible to get a job as a second guide. A health certificate is also required.

To work on international flights, knowledge of a foreign language is required.

What are the responsibilities

Responsible for servicing passengers along the route: boarding and disembarking, checking tickets, issuing bed linen, selling tea, coffee, confectionery and souvenirs, etc.

It is also necessary to maintain train documentation, maintain the condition of the carriage in accordance with sanitary and hygienic requirements (cleanliness, heat and light, water, operation of all necessary equipment), ensure the safety of passengers along the way, including providing first aid, keep records of inventory valuables and inventory, as well as compiling reports for the train manager and much more. In addition, you still need to prepare the carriage for the road, and after the end of the trip, put it in order and hand it over.

For an uninitiated person, this profession looks simple and even primitive, but in fact it requires a huge amount of a wide variety of skills, because all sorts of situations happen on the road.

Disadvantages of the profession

The work of a guide is considered quite difficult both physically and emotionally. There are different people, conflict situations often arise, and the daily routine is irregular. In addition, there is a prolonged absence from home.

Advantages of the profession

The positive aspects include the fact that this is a job in a state-owned company, which in itself for many people is synonymous with stability and confidence in the future.

Career growth is possible, for example, up to, but in this case a higher education is required, as well as experience working in different sections of the railway.

The workers themselves cite the opportunity to see cities and meet a large number of people as a plus. The guides' shifts usually last 15 days, then the same amount of time is given to rest.

In a word, if you are attracted by the romance of the road, you are ready to withstand a wide variety of people in huge numbers, you want to work in a large stable company and you are not afraid of how much conductors receive for their hard work, maybe this profession is for you?

"For those who love to travel, receive vivid impressions, watch a kaleidoscope of new faces and communicate with a variety of people! We invite you to visit us..." This is what an advertisement for recruiting those who are ready to surf for days looks like Russia, help passengers, serve tea in iron cup holders and change bed linen at each station, of course. For those who are ready to choose a profession as a passenger carriage conductor. People who have already worked in this difficult profile can add to the colorful descriptions permanent lack of sleep and a day without sleep, showdowns with rowdies, irregular work schedules, fines and low (relatively, however, in our country everything is relative) wages.

Nevertheless, the profession of a guide remains the most beloved for many who chose it. Example - Maria Ukolova and Pavel Skvortsov. In a long interview with the site Ezhmedia young people told why they chose this profession and never regret it.

Masha is an architect, and Pavel is a car mechanic. But they were united by the railway, the work of a conductor and the place of training - the Vladimir student brigade of conductors ( SOP) « Pulse».

To become a “car driver” and take courses, you must be at least 18 and not older than 24 years old. Go through a medical examination, fill out a form and, as it is written on the website: “pack your things, don’t forget a lot of positive things and a sea of ​​energy, and set off for the whole summer to conquer the city on the Neva (training takes place in St. Petersburg)". The ex-head of SOP “Impulse” spoke about other features of the site Elena Mishkanova.

“Students, boys and girls, are coming. Judging by last year, the excitement has already subsided. About 3-4 years ago it came to the initial stage more than 100 people. Education means lectures, exams, and passing a diploma. Everything is standard.

In a week you can see both a polar day and a dolphin in the sea.

There is a desire to work on a branded train, there is already advanced training, other categories and additional training. Just a student right away no one will put work for a company train.

It was our detachment that was trained by technical school teachers from Malaya Vishera. And so, in general, there are many SOP institutions where there is such a specialty.

The beauty of the profession is that Russian Railways- this is an incredible accumulation of different people and emotions. When you are a guide, you are always outside your comfort zone, this greatly improves your own personal qualities. And no one has canceled the beauty of nature outside the window. You can see it in a week and a polar day, and a dolphin in the sea", explained Elena Mishkanova.

After completing special courses, no one will force you to go work as a guide. Every free to do what is more interesting, necessary and important to him. Maria and Pavel decided to continue not to study, but to learn in practice what the profession of a guide is. True, as the guys admitted, it is still more comfortable and peaceful for them to work, albeit on the same train, but in different cars.

The heroes of the interview work on the route St. Petersburg - Adler in a double-decker carriage. “The first fundamental difference is the capacity of the compartment car. Here 64 people, not 32, as in the usual composition. Secondly, everything works throughout the entire route. This is a great happiness for the conductor, as well as for the passengers. Each compartment has 4 sockets, no one stands near the toilets with a phone to charge it. By the way, the car is heated without coal; just press a button and the temperature will be ideal. No titanium with boiling water- passengers come directly to the conductor with a small electric kettle. Many carriages do not have a conductor's compartment; in its place is a coffee machine. And video cameras do not leave smokers a single chance to break the ban.”

Maria and Pavel work according to the following scheme: completed two flights, you take two flights to rest. But it’s already summer, the girl says, and now you can only dream about relaxation.

When working in the last carriage, you still need to have time to monitor the serviceability of the tail signal lights.

In fact, the most important thing for a conductor is to provide maximum comfort to all passengers without exception. In addition, his responsibilities include working with all technical equipment of the train: water supply, ventilation, electricity, as well as sanitary treatment. Conductor should be able to provide medical assistance, help with paperwork (if the train crosses the border). When working in the last car you need more have time to follow for the serviceability of the tail signal lights.

The salary of a conductor depends on several factors: it seasonality(in summer there are more flights and passengers), train type(new equipment is modern, it is more difficult to work with, and therefore the salary is higher). On branded trains the wages are higher than on regular trains. We will not talk about any specific amounts: they change too often. For example, this year salaries have already increased since March 1, and will be indexed again in October.

If you go through sites on the Internet, the following picture emerges. On average, a conductor receives about 23 thousand rubles. This is if we assume that it works according to the norm, that is 176 hours per month. But very often conductors, wanting to receive more, overwork this limit. If we consider the option when bonuses, overtime and other allowances are awarded for work, then a “car driver” can receive about 50 thousand rubles. But, as they clarify on the websites, fulfilling such a norm is extremely problematic.

In addition, for every five years of continuous work, the conductor receives a bonus in the amount 3-4 salaries. Every year, vouchers to sanatoriums and summer camps are allocated - free or partially paid. Provodnikov serve free of charge in clinics at Russian Railways.

If you have the desire and strength, you can “rise” to the head of the train, shift and, ultimately, the station.

There is also a gradation. The first link is an employee of local trains, then up the career ladder - a conductor of long-distance trains and company trains. If you have the desire and strength, you can " rise to the rank» to the train manager, the shift manager and, ultimately, the station. And this is facilitated by the fact that there is no age limit in the profession. From 18 and... if you have the desire and health, you can work even after reaching retirement.

The guides also have an interesting additional service. After the flights they " go for a smile" This means a visit to a psychologist. There they are taught to recognize different types of people, identify the most conflicting ones, and learn how to behave correctly with such personnel.

The profession of a guide does not always mean monotonous trips between cities. Two thousand workers in this field have already completed additional training courses before the start of the June 14 in Russia World Cup. We're talking about this. And who wouldn’t be interested in chatting with fans from Panama, Australia or Costa Rica? And even over the course of not just one feast, but an entire multi-hour trip? Now you can’t guess how such an acquaintance could end.

P. S. We have contacted the main characters of the material and will try to write about them in more detail in the near future.

Maxim Yaroshevsky

Working in railway transport is an attractive field for many. Russian Railways is a stable company that has not been known to delay wages. During their student years, many try to get a job as a guide there, since all they need to do is take courses, tests and fill out a medical book. In Soviet times, conductors received a lot; this profession was considered prestigious. Let's figure out how the situation is these days.

Responsibilities of the conductor

The salary of a conductor directly depends on the performance of his professional duties. If a person works poorly, there will be no question of any promotions or bonuses. Therefore, before dreaming of working for Russian Railways, you need to familiarize yourself with the professional responsibilities of passenger carriage conductors:

  1. Maintaining order is primarily about preventing drunkenness. A certain circle of people immediately after boarding the carriage begin to drink alcohol and disturb others; the conductor must stop such cases. If necessary, you can contact the train manager, who will report the rowdies to the nearest station. A police detachment will pick them up on it.
  2. Checking tickets and documents. It is important to notice the mistake in time and find those who are trying to leave using someone else’s travel documents or without them at all.
  3. Issue and collect bed linen in a timely manner.
  4. Sell ​​tea, drinks, and groceries to passengers.
  5. Clean the carriage and maintain cleanliness.
  6. Monitor the boarding of passengers at all stations and report their arrival at their final destination.

These are just the main responsibilities. The work of a guide, like every profession, has its pitfalls. First of all, he must be on duty even at night, warm up the titanium in a timely manner, and write a lot of documentation. After arriving at the final destination, prepare the carriage for return: clean it completely, return bed linen.

Reviews from workers say that sometimes it takes 6-8 hours to prepare a carriage, but they are not taken into account when calculating wages. Each flight ends with agreement on the time of the next shift.

A significant disadvantage of this work is the long absence from home. Russian Railways has a rule that the number of days on the road is equal to the number of rest, that is, 15 work shifts per month. After the flight, the conductor is given several days off to rest, but in the summer their number is extremely small. The amount of hours worked per month should not be below the norm. Overtime occurs during the season when the number of trains increases and very few employees are hired. If you have chosen the profession of a guide, you should be prepared for systematic processing.

How much does a conductor get?

In mid-2018, the Russian Railways company reported that the average salary of its employees was 46,800 rubles. Management plans to carry out another indexation in the 1st quarter of 2019. Can conductors count on such a salary? It all depends on the circumstances and place of work. A conductor's salary depends on:

  • season;
  • train range
  • complexity of the path;
  • number of day and night hours worked;
  • management;
  • train class.

Conductors working on branded trains earn the most. If they belong to a department located in Stavropol, St. Petersburg or Moscow, then you can count on a higher salary. The salary of conductors from these cities is close to the average salary of Russian Railways. In other departments, salaries are more modest - the average salary is 22.5 thousand rubles. It is not fixed, according to the conductors themselves, you can get from 17 to 34 thousand.

There is also a sales plan for conductors that must be adhered to. If it is not completed, you will have to pay extra out of your own pocket. If the plan is fulfilled in all cars, the crew receives an additional 15% bonus. The results of the audit that is carried out along the route are also important. If the inspectors find errors, the employee’s bonus is deprived. Part of your salary may also be deducted for lost linens.

Additional bonuses

Many people are attracted to Russian Railways by the social package. This company has a trade union that carefully monitors the rights of workers and tries to achieve a large list of benefits for them - from medical care in special clinics to an increase in pensions. Conductors have the opportunity to:

  • free travel on railway transport;
  • financial assistance when going on vacation;
  • paid leave for newlyweds and young parents (up to 5 days to celebrate a joyful event);
  • additional one-time benefit for the birth of a child;
  • monthly supplement to the benefit for mothers under 3 years of age (helping to achieve average income);
  • additional benefit if there is more than one child in the family;
  • upon dismissal at the initiative of Russian Railways, compensation is paid, the amount of which depends on the reasons for termination of the employment contract.

1. Animals can be transported in compartment cars. And everything would be fine, but I once saw how a RACCOON was carried on a leash and walked at the stations. Hahaha I live here

2. If you think that no one will know about smoking in the toilet, you are mistaken, because the ventilation of the carriage is designed in such a way that all the air from the vestibule, toilet and oblique corridor is drawn into the conductor's compartment

3. An information sheet is issued for caught smokers. The first such sheet - a fine of 1,500 rubles and the ticket will indicate that you are a smoker, the second - they simply will not sell you a train ticket

4. There were very mixed feelings when the Ukrainian train arrived at the station. If in my composition I knew for sure that I had perfect order and a new carriage, and so did our brigade, then our brothers had simply hell, both inside and outside the carriage. The USSR never left there

5. By the way, you can use the toilet during sanitary zones only if you need to wash and brush your teeth, shave, etc. The conductor must stand nearby and ensure that the toilet is not used

6. Now I’ll tell you a terrible secret - you don’t have to hand over your bed linen to the conductor when you exit at your station! And the conductor cannot force you to take him a set of linen; at most, be ready to go out in half an hour

7. For the love of God, don’t charge your gadgets from the sockets in the carriages. Most often, the wiring in the car is so-so, and if the iPhone doesn’t damage all the electrics in the car, then you will definitely ruin the battery. Powerbank is our everything! Although, in fairness, it is worth saying that the iPhone is not so scary. When they insert an extension cord into an extension cord, and there are several laptops in it - this is already scary and dangerous, conductors usually stop this

8. 3 and 5 compartments are emergency exits, the windows there do not open, so in the summer it is unbearably hot there and nothing can be done if there is no air conditioning. Take this into account if you are planning to travel far, but the carriage you have is the same

9. YOU CAN DRINK VODKA ON THE TRAIN. But only for passengers. And don’t overdo it - the conductor has the right to unseat a passenger who seems too drunk to him; it won’t be difficult to take two confirmations from passengers


10. In many cases, too frequent wet cleaning of the carriage by a conductor only leads to dust flying up from the bottom, so conductors are not pigs, these are features of operation

11. By the way, the conductor’s career growth is so-so - from grade 3 to grade 4, you work in two-story buildings and Siemens, the salary is 15 percent higher. Then, if God doesn’t save you, they’ll send you to a train master’s course. You won’t find such fuck-ups like there anywhere, that’s why they shove them there

12. Each element of the car that is not nailed to the floor must be monitored. Forks, spoons, glasses, brooms, knives, brushes - if they go missing, they are all deducted from our salary, so although the guide is obliged to give you a fork, spoon, etc. for free, he will still keep an eye on you

13. Brush brushes are a different story altogether. People manage to FLUSH THEM DOWN THE TOILET. Seriously, I don’t know how this happens, but in the second year of work I started tying the brush with a rope

14. Once there was a passenger traveling with us, whom other passengers handed over to the cops right at the station because he was injecting drugs in the toilet and leaving syringes in the trash can. He was admitted right at the station, but it turned out that he was diabetic and was injecting insulin

15. The air conditioning in the carriage is powered by a generator, which starts working only when the train picks up speed above 30 km/h. That is why a trip along the Black Sea coast (4 hours at a speed of 30-35 km/h and stops) turned into hell

16. In general, when it comes to air conditioning, the guide is on the passengers’ side. We are the same people who travel in the same conditions as you, although our shifts last 12 hours and all this time we have to be in uniform. If the conductor says that the air conditioner is not working, then he is not lying.

17. In the summer, student teams work on many trains. Most of them really try and work well, otherwise they simply wouldn’t be on the rosters. So if your guide is a student, then most likely he will try very hard for you

18. Very often, trains like Adler-St. Petersburg are temporarily equipped with old cars, because new ones are needed for other flights. And no one changed the price, so if you buy a ticket for 6-8 thousand you can easily travel in an old German carriage without a dry closet, things like that

19. But old German carriages are very much appreciated by conductors. Yes, the door opens with your foot, yes, it’s hot, but such cars definitely won’t have any breakdowns on the road and you won’t have to wait for repairmen at large stations. Hello, new TVZ cars!

20. The average salary of a student conductor is 25-30 thousand per month. Advance is issued at the beginning of the month, salary - on the 20th. It may seem that this is a steep salary for a student, but most of the money is spent on stupid food. And the conductors always want to eat

21. Personnel guides do not like students, and students do not like personnel guides. All this is transformed into a global pissing of everything and everyone during the delivery/acceptance of the carriage

22. The strangest and most infuriating question I’ve ever heard is that a couple of minutes before arriving at the station, those leaving the carriage ask “Which track will we arrive at?”
lol, I’m not a dispatcher, how do I know where we’ll be taken?

23. A conductor is a profession in which ingenuity must be turned to the maximum. She will help you resolve a conflict with a passenger, earn money, and win over your boss. If you are dumb as a plug, you have nothing to do here

24. Carriage depots organize dormitories for students for the summer. These are old carriages parked eternally in the ass of the world. The traffic never stops there, and life is in full swing, despite the unsanitary conditions and heat in such carriages

25. It also happens that the conductor travels in a group of three - three conductors for 2 cars, and for this one, hell and Israel come if he travels in a reserved seat. Sleeping in the “eat 5 minutes - sleep” mode, eating in the “doshirak of the gods” mode and that’s all

26. You don’t need to think that if a student conductor is traveling, he can do whatever he wants, because he still works temporarily. Everyone is asked the same, and a particularly large problem will result in expulsion from the university.

27. Passenger luggage is a different matter. Nobody wants to remember that the maximum weight of luggage is 36 kg for one ticket in a reserved seat, and the sum of three dimensions should not exceed 180 cm. No, you must definitely enter with 19 bags, because YES I WILL LAY THEM SOMEHOW

28. A group of tourists of 30 people was once traveling from Moscow to Belomorsk in a reserved seat, and they placed all their kayaks on 3 shelves on top. The feeling of the jungle never left me as I walked through this carriage.

29. There are a lot of people who like to buy fruits, vegetables, and lunches at small stations from grandmothers. Most often, such purchases end in queues for the toilets.

30. The night shift is much more soulful than the day shift. Stick to the computer, sleep, sometimes open the doors at the stations, smoke at the technical stations, drink tea and eat - heaven on earth

31. Many students become conductors “to see the country from the train window.” During all the time I worked, I accumulated 3-4 hours of pure time looking out the window, the rest of the time I need to do something

32. Personally, I have never seen or given wet underwear to passengers. On the contrary, it comes from the laundry hot, and it’s a thrill, it’s nice to give it away. Therefore, 99% of wet underwear on trains is stories

33. If you buy at least 100-150 rubles worth of tea products from the conductor, you will open the door to the magical world of smoking on the train if you are a smoker. 150 rubles is not such a big amount to go broke, and the conductor has a sales plan

34. You don’t need to think that you are the smartest spies in the world and can hide your garbage under a shelf, in a shelf, under a mattress, in a table, etc. After each flight, I raked out a bunch of small garbage, and once passengers forgot a gas burner on the 3rd shelf, lol

35. Conductors bathe in toilets during flights. Yes Yes. We take a basin of warm water, cut off the bottom of a five-liter bottle and pour it over ourselves until ready. Otherwise you will quickly turn into a huge piece of dirt and sweat

36. Wet cleaning should be done at least 2 times a day, dry cleaning - as the car gets dirty, but not less than 2 times. Remember this

37. Money from the sale of charity cards really goes to a fund to help children, this is not a scam from Russian Railways. This is handled by a special department

38. If you want to truly thank the conductor for the trip, call the hotline. The likelihood of receiving a bonus will increase several times

39. I hate people who don’t empty the water from their doshirak after themselves, but throw the box straight into the trash bag. It then leaks, most often onto the floor, and complaints begin. Don't do that, better flush it down the toilet and throw it away, it will take 1 minute

40. No matter how many warnings are written, people still throw paper into the dry closet. You are ruining your own life; such a toilet cannot be repaired on the road. And so because of one fucker the whole carriage suffers

41. After being fired, the first desire is to take a human shower. Ooooh, how much happiness there is in this 😍

42. Carrying a group of children is both a plus and a minus.
Plus - if the carriage is full, you can sleep peacefully and not open small stations, plus they often buy ALL tea products
Minus - THEY YELL AND LITTER LIKE PIGS

43. It’s incredibly nice when a person cleans up after himself if he accidentally litters. Let's all be like this ❤️

44. In the summer, you can travel long distances very cheaply in good carriages. Discounts on the top bunk in a compartment - 50%, you can save money and save yourself from reserved seats, grannies and constant walking around the carriage

45. Also, the work involves minor scratches, abrasions and bruises. Sometimes you don’t even know where or what you hit, but it hurts and goes away for a long time

46. ​​The water in titanium is not endless, so you must always make sure that the car is filled with water. The electric boiler also only works when in motion, so you need to especially monitor the water level, because you can burn the heating elements and you will be heating with anything

47. Oh yes, old carriages really burn with coal. You can't, but who cares?

48. Vapers are a different story. You can’t vape in the carriage, just like you can’t smoke, but there are smart people who THIS IS STEAM AND NOT SMOKE I DON’T SMOKE

49. Rain is a guide’s worst nightmare. You wash the floor 3 times more often, and usually step over a rag to wipe your feet.

50. Solidarity between the conductor and the passenger is when you wash the floor in the compartment, and everyone leaves their seats, taking their shoes and not disturbing you.

51. Safety precautions are not an empty phrase. Although this is monitored, accidents occur every year with both passengers and conductors. Therefore, we kindly ask you to be careful and listen to the conductor, all instructions on the piece of iron are written in blood

52. PACKAGES CANNOT BE TRANSMITTED. ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE. EVEN ENVELOPES. An FSB agent planted a dummy bomb in the vestibule of my friend, disguised as a package of pills. Almost got fired

53. In new carriages, the conductor has a refrigerator. We are obliged to carry baby food in it if asked, but if you ask the conductor, we will put something else

54. Conductors sometimes sell their own tea instead of the one sold with stickers. Most often, this is not because of a good life - the conductor buys back the remaining tea products, or the remainder is sold later
Personally, now I always have some little thing, but I’ll buy it from the conductor, solidarity

55. Well, or if a child urgently needs to go, we have no right to refuse, but in this case you can’t press the toilet pedal

56. In general, sanitary zones are a rather conditional thing. If the carriage is full, it is enough to close it 5 minutes before the station and open it 5 minutes after departure. This reduces the stress of passengers in every sense)

57. Watching meetings and partings is truly a magical thing, for which it is worth working as a guide. Entire stories fly by next to you, and to feel it is something

58. If you decide to save money and not buy linen, your destiny is to lie on the shelf or walk around the carriage, because you can’t use a mattress without linen, yes

59. The conductor’s area of ​​responsibility is a clean carriage and good service; if the air conditioner is broken and it’s hot in the carriage, then his maximum is to open the windows and pray for the repairmen

60. During my work, I learned to cook buckwheat with meat, naval pasta, chicken soup, sausages and salads on titanium, so the guides don’t always eat only doshiraki
They alone are guaranteed to bring home an ulcer.

61. The dining car is a separate caste. The cooks and waiters practically live in it, and at night they lie down right on the floor, because there is nowhere else. And during the day they can feed the guides at a slightly reduced price

62. Pissing and theft flourish on a cosmic scale. They steal everything from everyone, so even when leaving for 5 minutes, I locked everything with a key.

63. Guides are the place where love is. I know many couples who started dating while they were partners in train cars.

64. In theory, the conductor is obliged to provide dominoes, checkers, chess upon request, but in 3 years of work I have NEVER seen them, not in a single carriage!

65. Conductors are prohibited from transporting, much less selling, alcohol in carriages. Punishable by dismissal and blacklist

66. And most importantly, conductors are the same people as passengers. If you treat them like a human being, then your trip will be very comfortable, additional goodies are possible and a guaranteed wake-up call if you go out at night, etc.

67. I always used a little trick - when the white nights began near Murmansk, I closed the windows so that the light would not shine on the sleeping people
It didn’t take long for a cloud of gratitude to arrive 😄

68. The conductor sometimes gives out small questionnaires, asking you to fill out your first name, last name and telephone number.
This is an obligation, guys, the probability of a call to you is 1%, so it will be good if you help the conductor and fill out

69. The side of the toilet has an advantage that sometimes outweighs all the disadvantages - you are always the first to go to the toilet in the morning

70. According to corporate rules, the conductor is not allowed to discuss his work with passengers, so most conductors will not support your conversation about how bad Russian Railways are with old cars

71. Sleeping while sitting in the service compartment, because your partner sleeps in the rest compartment, and bags of laundry are the norm on the top bunk.

72. Getting sick on a flight is as easy as shelling pears, even my strongest comrades spent a week with a temperature of 38, and I had to work non-stop and sleep at night on the flights.

73. If a carriage catches fire at speed, it will burn out in 5 minutes. Observe fire safety

74. If you want to lose weight, become a guide; in 3 summers I have never lost less than 15 kg

75. There are auditors who travel with you for work, and there are auditors who simply go on vacation. The first ones are scum, the second ones are the most understanding people in the world

76. Conductors who leave the toilet dirty will be eaten by their own - because a complaint about the toilet of one ruins the bonuses of the entire staff, so I haven’t seen really disgusting dirty pushes for quite some time

77. On flights to the north, they give you a LOT of toilet paper, air fresheners, rags and paper towels, so a good half of it all gets taken home at home stations

78. The quality sector is the representatives of Satan on earth. They make sure that the carriage is literally licked clean, they write violations for the fact that the window is cracked, or the paint on the wall has come off. As a rule, it is unrealistic to pass the quality sector without violations, and this is minus the bonus

79. If there is dripping from the ceiling in the toilet, give the conductor a whack, he didn’t make sure that when refueling the car, the hose was disconnected in time and the car was “overfilled”

80. The average sales plan for tea products per passenger is 25 rubles per person. If you carried 200 people in a reserved seat in both directions, which is quite realistic, get ready to pay 5k. Souvenirs are not taken into account here

81. The best sleep is when you have passed the day shift and can sleep at night without breaking your routine. I always worked with my best friend during the day to make sure that everything in the carriage was good and without jambs, and he kept the floors clean at night

82. I love passengers with a speaker. Although they most often listen to something old, it’s a little more fun to ride this way.

83. I can’t tell you much about two-story buildings. I only know that on the second floor the top shelf is very close to the ceiling, and the automatic coupling is simply complete, the cars kept uncoupling while moving. At the Adler depot, there were mostly two-story buildings under renovation, I don’t know why

84. What they don’t give us for sale - Swiss knives, pillows for sleeping, gold cup holders, children’s coloring books. Once we were given Altai balms for potency on a flight, and we left in an instant

85. If you’re lucky, at the end of the flight the tea products are accepted after the fact - as much as you sold, you give back as much. But it must be the top boss of the train

86. I noticed that the conductor’s level of nonsense increases in proportion to the age of the subject. Therefore, young guides can get moving, if anything)

87. A passenger carriage conductor is actually a difficult job. I know people who broke down after the first flights and went home, not caring about anything.

88. If you want to know Russia from the inside, welcome to the train! Here all the different layers of our society are discussed: from painters to customs officers of the port of Novorossiysk

89. Knowledge of foreign languages ​​was very useful. Americans, British, Chinese, Germans, Norwegians, Greeks, Israelis regularly travel from Moscow to St. Petersburg - and he helped everyone settle down and find their place. As a reward they gave money or a souvenir - a Swiss knife

90. Despite all the difficulty and ambiguity, I really loved this job. The feeling of being needed comes almost immediately; this is one of those jobs where the result of your work is immediate. A passenger's gratitude for your work means a lot

91. Well, a little more about money. The rate of a 3rd category conductor (students) varies from 75 to 85 rubles per hour. The most interesting thing is that your working time does not include parking time. Even if it’s 2 minutes, even if it’s 40. It seems small, but over the summer you lose about 1000

92. “It must be hard for you, right, young man?” “Poor thing, how do you work here?”
People ask, as if regretting it, and after 10 minutes they throw the garbage past the trash can.

93. During work, a thermonuclear hatred of seeds develops! Lord, you start dreaming about them at some point!
Everything is in husks: the floor, shelves, carpets, windows, toilets, bed linen, it’s easier to collect a Lexus with your ass than to completely collect all the skins from the seeds on the road

94. A cool new service - take your car with you in a special trailer. I saw a fairly expensive Ferrari being loaded into Adler. Don't transport your car in a special carriage, don't.

95. Some trains have a service - a shower in the headquarters car. It costs 100-250 rubles, but the guides are clearly asked not to swim in this shower🤔

96. Russian Railways is criticized a lot, and criticized for good reason, but it is a fact that there are more and more new cars, especially on southern routes. There is something to compare with

97. Every third conductor is a smoker. Precisely because there is simply nothing to do at large technical stations, plus the workload is such that you somehow need to relieve stress after the shift. With such guides you can smoke, tell stories and just have fun

98. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, daylight lighting is turned on, at 19 o'clock - evening fluorescent lighting, at 23 o'clock - night lighting. Often everyone is already asleep by 9, so they complain that the conductor doesn’t want to turn off the lights. And these are just instructions according to which we work

99. Don’t be surprised by old cars if your train number starts with 4, 5 or 6. I myself saw how, to form one summer train from Adler, they pulled out a car from somewhere with broken glass in one of the compartments and on the door. It must have been cold

100. Anniversary tweet. I'm revealing another secret. In old carriages, two vestibules have pockets for storing coal. The temperature there is lower than throughout the train, if you are carrying, for example, a fish from north to south, negotiate with the conductor and carry the fish in this pocket

101. In old carriages there is an absolutely amazing system: one of your choice can work: a boiler or ventilation. Some bosses force the titanium to be heated with fuel so that the fan can work at the same time. The show has begun!

102. There is always a first aid kit in the train carriage. It contains bandages, gauze, a bunch of plasters, gloves, iodine, but no medicine. It is prohibited to give yours to passengers. Therefore, always check all medications before your trip, and do not waste money on it.

103. The best shawarma I ate on the road was at the Michurinsk-Uralsky station. She's really worth the money!

104. One granny really liked the way I worked, and she decided to treat me to homemade tomatoes. Having opened the package, I saw that they were rotten through and through. Attention, of course, is nice, but not like that😂

105. The conductor is obliged to provide first aid to a passenger who becomes ill. This is specifically taught, so don’t be shy to ask for help. At the nearest large station, doctors will already come to the carriage and examine you professionally.

106. In compartment cars there are always people who love to stand in the aisle and look out the window. They do not leave even when the guide goes with a bucket to wash the floor. Guys, how can I explain to you that you are interfering?

107. The conductor is prohibited from releasing people at stations that last less than 5 minutes. Be understanding, there is no need for this “I’ll have a quick smoke.” This is a safety issue, my friends, so be patient.

108. A little more about alcohol. The conductor has the right, in principle, not to let a passenger into the carriage if, in the conductor’s opinion, he is too drunk or behaves inappropriately. Even if he had the most expensive ticket to the coolest place

109. A little about the stop valve. The conductor should release the stop valve ONLY if there is a threat to the lives of passengers. In all other cases, an act is written with a fine of about 5 thousand, plus even a minute of train downtime on the tracks costs a pretty penny.

110. The train manager gives lotteries, most often 3 pieces, they need to be sold. They are already considered to be purchased by you, so your task is to sell them anyway. How? Use your wits! Didn't sell? Prepare some money

111. About the break in the train toilet. So that you understand, the crowbar attached to the car is a huge reinforcement bar about 1.5 meters long and 2 centimeters in diameter. In principle, it’s hard to carry it, let alone throw it somewhere. This is probably why there were no experimenters

112. The ingenuity of train electricians is amazing. Often, if the air conditioning in the carriages broke down, a couple of windows in the aisle were pulled out (!!) and a crazy draft began in the carriage. Rain? Are we going north? Don't care, cover it with a sheet so the floor doesn't get wet

113. Special admiration for Pechora station when you go to Vorkuta. The orchestra at the station is amazing, it’s worth traveling so far just for it!

114. Back in the days when there weren’t so many checks, one train manager taught how to bottle chacha in 0.5 bottles for sale. The bottom line is that chacha from the south is very popular, basically, if they make fermented food in the carriages, then it is it

115. At some stations, a customs officer, or someone in civilian clothes, kindly approaches the conductors and asks about the presence of foreign citizens. For 3 years I still don’t understand why this is needed and what will happen if you answer that they exist

116. A conductor must be clean-shaven before a flight, but I couldn’t shave before one flight because the machine broke and about 2 mm of stubble appeared. Before the flight, the instructor stood next to me with a ruler, the passengers were perplexed, to put it mildly.

117. About the photo at the beginning of the post. This is the first thing I saw when I arrived at the Adler depot and entered the student dormitory in 2016. This is not a corpse, this is a student sleeping, it’s just hot in the carriage at night

Working as a train conductor is a difficult but interesting profession. Many people have had this dream since childhood - to work as a conductor. The profession is steeped in romance and fantasy. Surely everyone has their own original story about the train conductor.

Any adult citizen, even those without higher education, can apply for this position. What kind of profession this is, why it is attractive and difficult, will be discussed further.

Qualities you need to have

To go to work as a guide, it is important to have certain personal qualities:

Advantages and disadvantages of the profession

A guide, like all professions, has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages include:

  • the need for the profession in society;
  • high on branded trains;
  • no age restrictions;
  • a large number of different benefits.

The disadvantages of the profession are:


Where and how to study

To find out about the vacancy of a train conductor, you need to contact the nearest branch of the railway station.

The passenger depot trains personnel to service the wagons. For the device, you must contact the HR department with documents. Typically the list of required documents includes:

  • passport;
  • certificate or diploma;
  • employment history;
  • a statement that can be written on the spot.

After the documents are accepted, an interview is scheduled with an HR employee or manager. During the interview, it is important to show yourself as an open, sociable person without bad habits. If it was possible to make such an impression and the candidacy was approved, the applicant is sent for training.

Train conductor training lasts three months, training is carried out daily, a full 8-hour day, except weekends. Once the training is completed, exams are conducted. First, they are accepted. Then the future train conductor is sent to practice - on the first flight, paired with a qualified employee. During the voyage, the student keeps a diary where he records all the events of the journey. It will need to be submitted to the training center. After the trip, a final exam with tickets is taken. When passing the exam with a score of more than three points, the student is considered enrolled in the state.

At the end of the training, the conductor is given a certificate of completion of the course. In addition, to get a job you will need to undergo a medical examination and obtain a health certificate, as well as certification for occupational safety. All documents are provided to the HR department.

Career stages

Immediately after completing training, a train conductor has the third qualification category. And there are four of them in total. The first two are for the cleaners of the passenger train. The third and fourth are for guides. The fourth can be obtained after advanced training. Such conductors usually operate in

A train conductor can rise through the ranks. To do this, you need a higher education or completing a course for foremen. Just below the foreman is the train mechanic, but this position is only for men.

There are also such career levels as shift manager and station manager.

Beginning of work

After training, the guide is ready to start working. He is given a special uniform, which must be kept clean and tidy. A photo of the train conductor demonstrates it.

At the beginning of the first work shift, the contractor forms a team. The guide may be asked which direction he prefers. Perhaps your wishes will be taken into account, but this is not at all necessary.

Flights are:

  • long-distance (more than 24 hours);
  • local (up to 12 hours).

The service schedule for local trains is 10 working days, then 10 days off. In long-distance carriages, the schedule is determined by the number of days on the trip.

Before the departure of the flight, a planning meeting is held, where the necessary documents are read out to the conductors and their readiness for the flight is checked. At the planning meeting, the teams are informed about the composition of the teams, given instructions, and asked to sign the necessary logs.

On flights crossing the border, the conductor needs a passport.

At the planning meeting, the conductor is assigned a carriage in which she will need to work. Once in his carriage, the conductor meets an employee there who has completed his shift and is about to go home. The carriage is being accepted. Every little detail is taken into account, because the conductor is personally responsible for the entire carriage.

At a certain hour, the conductor begins boarding. Here it is important for him to act strictly according to the instructions. If passengers express dissatisfaction, the conductor cannot meet them halfway, since he is limited by instructions.

You also need to be very careful when handling tickets. There are fines for any mistakes in the work, so it is in the interests of the conductor to comply with everything and be responsible.

Explorer functions

The work of a conductor includes two directions. The first is service work with passengers. This includes:

The second area of ​​responsibilities is related to car maintenance. The conductor ensures the external and internal cleanliness of the carriage entrusted to him. The carriage is wet cleaned twice a day and the toilets four times. Garbage is removed. When the carriage arrives at the station, the conductor wipes the handrails and loads coal into the train.
In winter, the conductors clear the carriage of ice and also defrost the toilet and washbasin using boiling water. Their responsibilities include maintaining the required temperature in the car.

The conductor has financial responsibility for all the property entrusted to him (dishes, bedding, all equipment for work), as well as for all breakdowns and damage in the carriage.

Wage

The level of a conductor depends on the number of hours worked. The standard for a month is 176 hours. In addition, odds, bonuses and other additions may be added. On average, a conductor earns from 10,000 to 25,000 rubles per month. In winter, the average salary is 15,000 rubles, in summer - 25,000 rubles.

There are also employees who manage to earn up to 55,000 rubles per month, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

Privileges

Despite the low level of wages and high workload at work, many strive to go to work on the railway. This is primarily due to the benefits that each conductor of long-distance trains has, and the conductors, of course.

These include:

  • free delivery from the depot to the station closest to your place of residence;
  • annual discounted round-trip rail travel for yourself and two minor children;
  • one round trip on your own road.

The trade union can award referrals for treatment, as well as a camp voucher for children. Conductors receive free medical care in special railway hospitals. In difficult situations, the company can pay for the employee’s treatment.

Every five years, good bonuses are provided for loyalty to the chosen cause. They can be 3-4 monthly salaries.

After 20 years of service or more, a conductor retiring also has the right to preferential railway travel.

If you are still interested in working as a train conductor, positions are always open, you just have to want it.



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