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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.)

Inland 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.)

According to the data of the Maritime Board (Morskaya Kollegiya) of the Russian Government for 2004,, 136.6 million tons of cargo have been carried that year over Russia's inland waterways, the total cargo transportation volume being 87,556.5 million ton-km. During same year, 53 companies were engaged in carrying passengers over Russia's inland waterways; they transported 22.8 million passengers, the total volume of river passenger transportation being 841.1 million passenger-km.

Pipelines

crude oil 48,000 km; petroleum products 15,000 km; natural gas 140,000 km (June 1993 est.)

Major sea ports and harbors

Merchant marine

total: 695 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,920,923 GRT/
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

Total 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.)

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Rail Transport

Total: 87,157 km
broad gauge 1520mm: 86,200 km (40,300 km electrified)

plus: additional 30,000 km (industrial non-common carrier lines (2003 figure))

narrow gauge 1067mm: 957 km (on Sakhalin Island)

Rail transport external links

Russian, CIS and Baltic Railway Map (with place names in Russian, but legend in English).

Rapid-transit systems

Moscow Metro - 12 lines, 172 stations, 278.8 km
Saint Petersburg Metro - 4 lines, 60 stations, 105.5 km
Nizhny Novgorod Metro - 1 line, 13 stations, 15.3 km
Novosibirsk Metro - 2 lines, 12 stations, 14.3 km
Samara Metro - 1 line, 8 stations, 10.3 km
Yekaterinburg Metro - 1 line, 8 stations, 8.5 km
Kazan Metro - 1 line, 5 stations, 7.0 km

Also there is a Metrotram system in Volgograd and three more cities with metro systems under construction:

Rail links with adjacent countries

Voltage of electrification systems not necessarily compatible.

Japan - no
Alaska (United States) - no
Norway - no — But Proposed 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 — same gauge 1524mm
North Korea - Yes - break of gauge 1524mm/1435mm

Maps

UN Map

Intercity Buses

Search Engine of Russian intercity buses

City transport

Moscow transport

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