Short facts about transportation in Russia
| Railways: |
total: 149,000 km
note: 86,000 km are in common carrier service;
63,000 km serve specific industries and are not available for common carrier
use; 40,000 km of the railway in common carrier use are
electrified
broad gauge: 149,000 km 1.520-m gauge
(1998) |
| Highways: |
total: 952,000 km
paved: 752,000 km (including, in addition to
about 336,000 km of conventionally paved roads, about 416,000 km of roads, the
surfaces of which have been stabilized with gravel or other coarse aggregates,
making them trafficable in wet weather)
unpaved: 200,000 km
(these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in
wet weather) (1998) |
| Waterways: |
95,900 km (total routes in general
use)
note: 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 (Jan 1994) |
| 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', Kaliningrad,
Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk,
Novorossiysk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Saint Petersburg, Rostov, Sochi,
Tuapse, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy,
Vyborg |
| Merchant
marine: |
total: 878 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,314,485 GRT/5,344,958
DWT
ships by type: barge carrier 1, bulk 20, cargo 543, chemical
tanker 4, combination bulk 21, combination ore/oil 7, container 31,
multi-functional large-load carrier 1, passenger 35, passenger/cargo 3,
petroleum tanker 164, refrigerated cargo 24, roll on/roll off 17, short-sea
passenger 7
note: includes a foreign-owned ship registered here
as a flag of convenience: Reunion 1 (2000
est.) |
| Airports: |
2,743 (2000
est.) |
| Airports -
with paved runways: |
total: 471
over 3,047 m: 56
2,438 to 3,047 m:
178
1,524 to 2,437 m: 76
914 to 1,523 m:
69
under 914 m: 92 (2000
est.) |
| Airports -
with unpaved runways: |
total: 2,272
over 3,047 m: 28
2,438 to 3,047 m:
118
1,524 to 2,437 m: 204
914 to 1,523 m:
324
under 914 m: 1,598 (2000 est.) | Source: World Factbook |
