Atyrau is an important railway station, and has has daily, or bi-daily, connections with many Kazakh cities, except for the north west including Astana. International rail connections include Tashkent/Saratov, Moscow/Dushanbe and Astrakhan. There are also daily international buses to Astrakhan. Aktau is serviced daily by a 20 hour train.
Atyrau Airport IATA: GUW SKAT airlines (http://www.scat.kz/) and Air Astana (http://www.airastana.com/) both service many domestic routes from the airport. Additionally, Air Astana flies internationally to Amsterdam and Istanbul while Transaero (http://www.transaero.ru) flies to Moscow.
