Abstract: Device for the transportation, transversely to their axis, of cylindrical rod-shaped objects such as cigarettes, of the kind comprising an upstream conveyor with sockets in which said objects are lodged, and an ascending downstream conveyor, smooth, arranged such that it maintains the transported objects through suction, a transfer zone being further arranged at the lower end of the downstream conveyor, wherein said zone which widens from downstream to upstream has in its upstream area a width at the time inferior in diameter to that of a cigarette and substantially the same as the latter when measured at the bottom of the socket.