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![Magas](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%81_%28Magas%29.jpg)

# Magas

Magas is the capital town of Ingushetia, Russia.

[Plan a trip to Magas](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Magas) [From Grozny](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Grozny&to=Magas)

## Every way there

- Grozny → Magas 75 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · ₽330–440 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/grozny-to-magas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Grozny&to=Magas)
- Mineralnyye Vody → Magas 171 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · ₽790–1,060 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/mineralnyye-vody-to-magas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Mineralnyye+Vody&to=Magas)
- Makhachkala → Magas 223 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · ₽890–1,190 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/makhachkala-to-magas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Makhachkala&to=Magas)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Magas, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Magas](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/magas)

What Magas has

- Y Scheduled flights Grozny (GRV), 77 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Nazran, 7 km.

43.167°, 44.800°

It was founded in 1995 and replaced Nazran as the capital of the republic in 2002. Due to this distinction, Magas is the smallest capital of a federal subject in Russia. In 2019, it had a population of 8,771 inhabitants, up from 5,841 in 2010 and 272 in 2002.

How locals move

## Getting around Magas the local way

- Get in Destinations |- | Pobeda || Moscow-Vnukovo |- | UTair Aviation || Moscow-Vnukovo, Seasonal charter: Medina, Jeddah |- |Aeroflot |Moscow-Sheremetyevo |}

From [Wikivoyage: Magas](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Magas), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magas%2C_Russia), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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