By plane
Owing to it's aircraft industry the Sukhoi Superjet 100 is produced here and its strategic importance, the city actually has two airports, but unless you find yourself unwittingly recruited by the Russian army, your interest will mainly be in Khurba airbase ICAO: UHKK; IATA: KXK 17 kilometers south of the city. Vladivostok Avia (http://www.vladivostokavi...) is your choice for direct 8 hour flights to Moscow Vnukovo, VKO, but only once weekly most of the year on Tuesdays at the time of writing, returning Wednesday. The only other airline operating is Sakhalin based SAT Airlines (http://www.satairlines.ru/) with once or twice weekly services to Ignatyevo Airport BQS near Blagoveshchensk and more importantly to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk UUS where the airline operates a decent hub with a number of connections to East Asia.
By ship
If potholes is not your thing, and 7000 kilometers of shouting provodnitzas has put a dent in your railway enthusiasm, you can go liquid instead, that is, when it's not frozen between June and August. Meteor hydrofoils speed up the Amur from Khabarovsk in six hours, which actually makes it the fastest connection between the two cities. In the same period, you can continue onwards to Nikolaevsk-on-Amur with the boats too, really the only option other than the daily flights from Khabarovsk, if you like your bones right where they are. This trip takes around 12 hours. The River terminal РеÑной вокзал, +7 (4217 59-29-35) is at the end of Oktyabrskiy Prospekt right by the beach.
By train
Planes aside, most visitors who wound up in the city is here because the city is an important hub on the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Westwards the next major town is Tynda ~40 hours, once daily and to the east the line reaches the pacific with with a stop in Vanino ~15 hours, once daily, twice in summer, where ferries takes passengers across to Sakhalin before the railway terminates in Sovetskaya Gavan. Going south there is a branch line with 1-3 daily trains from Khabarovsk or Vladivostok. Occasionally there are direct trains to Irkutsk and beyond, you can try the #008/667 from/to Novosibirsk if that's useful to your itinerary - in the summer there is even sometimes a direct carriage attached to the Rossiya from Moscow.If you want to shorten time from Komsomolsk to Khabarovsk, you may get off at Selikhino between them, where a bus will await you for connection. The total travel time will be 6 hours instead of 11.
By bus
The road to Khabarovsk is, by Russian standards, in workable condition and paved for nearly the entire length, so naturally buses are taking full advantage of this rare feat, with around 10 round trips per day. The trip takes a good 8 hours and costs between 460-660 rubles depending on which bus you catch. There is a red eye service leaving in both directions at 23.00 if you're on a really tight budget, and the 09.30 #306 bus continues onwards to Birobidzhan. Supposedly there is a single daily bus to Vanino, but if that's a miss, there should definitely be a Marshrutka leaving sometime. The Bus station ÐвÑовокзал, at Pionerskaya Street 2, â +7 4217 59-11-54. edit is a short walk from the river terminal north along the beach.