TRANSPORTATION

This section describes the transportation network comprised of a railway, road and river network spanning the entire country.

The total length of the Russian railways is 148,000 km. About 86,000 km of it are for public use and belong to the Railway Ministry; 62,000 km belong to other ministries and are not available for public service (industrial lines, port branches, forest and peat lines, and other narrow-gauge branches).

The total length of all roads in Russia is 916,000 km. About 574,000 km of this length are commonly used roads and 342,000 km belong to different ministries and companies. Most Russian roads got hard surfacing (ballast) or were covered by asphalt in the 1980s and 90s. The length of roads with the best surfaces (asphalt-concrete, cement-concrete, tarmac) was 517,000 km in 1999.

The length of navigable river and lake ways of Russia is 89,000 km. Of these, 74,900 km have navigation signs, including 24,300 km with light and light-reflectors. About 39,000 km of inner waterways have guaranteed depths for navigation. More Details...

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