On August 6, 2017, a new high-speed train "Chaika" was launched on the Yaroslavl–Rybinsk route, with the travel time of 1 hour and 15 minutes.

On October 10, 2018, the director of the Department of Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects of the Yaroslavl Region signed an order adding the Yaroslavl-Glavny Railway Station building built in 1952 to the list of cultural heritage sites.

Then urban developments slowly spread from the main highway to the north and east, in the direction of Vologda, Kostroma, and Rybinsk.

After the railway bridge over the Volga was built in 1913 the older Yaroslavl-Moscow station was not on the main transportation routes through Yaroslavl.

The building of the station with a clock tower decorated with the signs of the zodiac, an example of the so-called Stalin Empire, in 1955 was criticized in the decree against architectural excesses.

In 2008 a monument to Savva Mamontov was installed near the station, his name is closely associated with the history of the Northern Railway.

On August 6, 2017, a new fast train "Chaika" on the route Yaroslavl - Rybinsk was launched.

The distance between Yaroslavl and Rybinsk high-speed train covers in 1 hour 15 minutes.

[6] On October 10, 2018, the director of the Department of protection of cultural heritage of the Yaroslavl region signed an order on the inclusion of the "Yaroslavl-Glavny Railway Station" built in 1952 in the list of identified objects of cultural heritage.