Transportation in Russia
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Railways:
- total: 87,157 km
- broad gauge: 86,200 km 1.520-m gauge (40,300 km electrified)
- note: an additional 30,000 km of non-common carrier lines serve industries (2003)
- narrow gauge: 957 km 1.067-m gauge (on Sakhalin Island)
Russian, CIS and Baltic Railway Map (http://parovoz.com/maps/supermap/index-e.html) (with place names in Russian, but legend in English).
Cities with metro systems:
- Northwestern Federal District: St. Petersburg.
- Central Federal District: Moscow.
- Southern Federal District: none.
- Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District: Nizhny Novgorod, Samara; under construction: Kazan.
- Urals Federal District: Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk.
- Siberian Federal District: Omsk, Novosibirsk; under construction: Krasnoyarsk.
- Far Eastern Federal District: none.
Highways:
total:
948,000 km (including 416,000 km which serve specific industries or farms and are not maintained by governmental highway maintenance departments)
paved:
336,000 km
unpaved:
612,000 km (including 411,000 km of graveled or some other form of surfacing and 201,000 km of unstabilized earth) (1995 est.)
Waterways: total navigable routes in general use 101,000 km; routes with navigation guides serving the Russian River Fleet 95,900 km; routes with night navigational aids 60,400 km; man-made navigable routes 16,900 km (January 1994 est.)
Pipelines: crude oil 48,000 km; petroleum products 15,000 km; natural gas 140,000 km (June 1993 est.)
Ports and harbors: Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Baltiysk, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevelsk, Novorossiysk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, St. Petersburg, Rostov, Sochi, Tuapse, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochny, Vyborg
Merchant marine:
total:
695 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,920,923 GRT/4,867,676 DWT
ships by type:
barge carrier 1, bulk 19, cargo 379, chemical tanker 4, combination bulk 21, combination ore/oil 3, container 25, multi-functional large load carrier 1, passenger 35, passenger/cargo 3, petroleum tanker 149, refrigerated cargo 26, roll-on/roll-off 22, short-sea passenger 7 (1999 est.)
Airports: 2,743 (2002)
Airports with paved runways:
total:
630
over 3,047 m:
54
2,438 to 3,047 m:
202
1,524 to 2,437 m:
108
914 to 1,523 m:
115
under 914 m:
151 (1994 est.)
Airports with unpaved runways:
total:
1,887
over 3,047 m:
25
2,438 to 3,047 m:
45
1,524 to 2,437 m:
134
914 to 1,523 m:
291
under 914 m:
1,392 (1994 est.)
- See also : Russia