One that I think is completely erroneously there is Venedikt Erofeev's ??????-???????, which is strangely translated as Moscow to the End of the Line. The train line doesn't stop at Petushki, though that is the final destination for that particular train.

It is the story of a drunk who wants to visit his son and ex-girlfriend in Petushki (he lives in Moscow). He reminisces on how he drinks, how much he drinks, sick cocktails that he makes using nail polish remover when he doesn't have access to good alcohol and all the jobs he's been fired from. The only reason it probably made it on the list was because he was drunk and hallucinating that he took the journey, when in fact he never left Moscow, something he realises only when young thugs chase him and knife him to death.

It's very funny at the beginning and very sad at the end, and there's nothing remotely "fantastic" about it. It's brutally realistic. It was banned due to blatant criticism of the Soviet system and only freely published since perestroika.