Sokol (Сокол, Russian for "falcon") was a planned high-speed train in Russia.

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.[2] The Sokol project was cancelled in 2002.

[3] Instead of a Sokol-based design, high speed trainsets (named Sapsan) based on the Siemens Velaro were procured from Siemens in Germany.

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