Sokol (Сокол, Russian for "

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") was a planned

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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. A prototype was built in 2000 and tested by Russian High Speed Railway Shareholding Co. The Sokol project was cancelled in 2002. Instead of a Sokol-based design, high speed trainsets (named '' Sapsan'') based on the Siemens Velaro were procured from

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in Germany. The Sapsan trains have been operating on the Moscow–St. Petersburg line since December 2009.

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External links

High Speed Trains - Sokol
''4rail.net'' Multiple units of Russia High-speed trains of Russia Experimental and prototype high-speed trains {{Russia-rail-transport-stub 25 kV AC multiple units 3000 V DC multiple units