Russia's transport system

Russia's transport system is very impressive, this is because it has to connect 143.5 million people in cities up to 9000km apart and in nine sperate time zones.

 A station in the moscow metro system.

Here are some facts that show the size of Russia's transport network,

There is 85,000km of commonly used railway track which is the second most of any nation in the world.
There is 755,000km of paved road.
There is 102,000km of navigable inland waterways.
There is 1216 airports.
There is 465.4km of metro railway line.
The Trans-siberian railway runs a service from Moscow to Vladivostok (9259km)
 The railway network of Russia

Russia is developing new transport systems and is updating old ones. The moscow metro is up to date and modern while it still transports 2464 million people per year.It is the second busiest metro system on the planet. There was a new high speed train link set up in Russia called Velaro RUS EVS it set the Russian rail speed record of 290 km/h in early 2009, the service is one of the fastest and most convenient in the world.

   The Velaro RUS EVS high speed train.

The Russian road network is vast but still has a low road density. There is a Russian Federal Motorway System which as shown below is extensive in the populous areas of European Russia but is spread far and wide in Siberia, it looks very similar to rail network. The networks of both road and rail look similar because they follow were the general populous of the nation live.

The Russian Federal Motorway Network

As you can see the road and rail networks are focused on the heavily populated regions of Russia.

Russia has 1216 airports the bussiest of which are Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, and Vnukovo in Moscow, then Pulkovo in St.Petersburg. Domodevedo is the largest airport in Russia with 28 million passengers travelling through it each year (11th busiest in Europe) Sheremotyevo is ranked 13th in Europe with a similar 26 million passengers per year.

  The new terminal at Domodedevo airport

Russia's National airline called Aeroflot is a very successful airline offering worldwide routes and while still offering a substantial network of domestic routes. Aeroflot has 136 planes in its fleet and has 116 destinations worldwide. Aeroflot is also a very modern airline with an impressive average plane age of 5.2 years.

An airliner from Russia's national Airline Aeroflot, it shows the airlines new livery that is based on the national flag.