Transport 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 (with place names in Russian, but legend in English).

Cities with metro systems:

• Moscow
• Saint Petersburg
• Nizhny Novgorod
• Novosibirsk
• Samara
• Yekaterinburg
• Kazan

Also there is a Metrotram system in Volgograd and five more cities with metro systems under costruction: Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ufa, Perm.

[edit] Rail links with adjacent countries

• Japan - no - But Proposed ^{[citation needed]} Rail Tunnel to Sakhalin & Then Anorther Tunnel To Japan - break of gauge 1524mm//1067mm
• Alaska (United States) - no - But Proposed ^{[citation needed]} Rail Tunnel or Bridge Under or Over Bering Straits From Trans-Siberian Railway - break of gauge 1524mm/1435mm
• Norway - Yes - Via Finland & Sweden - break of gauge 1524mm/1435mm
• Finland - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• Estonia - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• Latvia - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• Lithuania - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• Poland - Yes - Via Kaliningrad Oblast - break of gauge 1524mm/1435mm
• Belarus - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• Ukraine - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• Georgia - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• Azerbaijan - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• Kazakhstan - Yes - same gauge 1524mm
• China - Yes - break of gauge 1524mm/1435mm
• Mongolia - Yes
• North Korea - no - link proposed ^{[citation needed]} - break of gauge 1524mm/1435mm

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