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Russian Railways accounts for 2.5% [6] of Russia's GDP and employs 800,000 people. [7] The percentage of passenger traffic that goes by rail is unknown, since no statistics are available for private transportation such as private automobiles. In 2007, about 1.3 billion passengers [8] and 1.3 billion tons of freight [9] went via
A Russian Railways Siemens Velaro Sapsan train. The transport network of the Russian Federation is one of the world's most extensive transport networks. The national web of roads, railways and airways stretches almost 7,700 km (4,800 mi) from Kaliningrad in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east, and major cities such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg are served by extensive rapid ...
Railways in the Russian Empire around 1900. Russia was and is the largest country in the world. Its geography of north–south rivers and east–west commerce, plus, importantly, the mostly flat terrain, made it very suited to develop railroads as the basic mode of transportation.
The old RZD logo. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation inherited 17 of the 32 regions of the former Soviet Railways (SZD). [8]In the mid-1990s, the profitability of railway transportation of the Russian Ministry of Railways fell to negative values, the bureaucratization of the ministry itself was publicly criticized, which became an occasion for reforms.
Russian railroad officials have reportedly been threatened with punishment, while the Russian railway authority admitted in 2023 that lack of locomotive maintenance and spare parts resulted in ...
A life size diorama of Russian track workers repairing railway tracks at the Museum of the Moscow Railway. Russian Railways is by far the largest railway company. It owns many of the other railways. East Siberian Railway. Irkutsk Railway Division; Severobaykalsk Railway Division; Tayshet Railway Division; Ulan-Ude Railway Division; Far Eastern ...
The highest point of Trans–Siberian Railroad is at Yablonovy pass at an altitude of 1070m situated in the Yablonoi Mountains, in Transbaikal (mainly in Zabaykalsky Krai), Siberia, Russia. The Trans–Siberian Railroad passes the mountains at Chita and runs parallel to the range before going through a tunnel to bypass the heights. [42]
The Ministry of Transport was created in 1809 as the Ministry of Railway Transport of the Russian Empire and later became the People's Commissariat for Railways of the USSR. It was reformed into the Ministry of Railways in 1946 and later expanded its authority to become the Ministry of Transport of the USSR.