Air + Land and Sea Travel in Russia

• published: 17 Nov 2015
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Free video about transport in Russia. This video was created for you by http://epsos.de and can be re-used for free under the creative commons license with the attribution of epSos.de as the original author of this transport in Russia video. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !! The transport network of the Russian Federation is one of the largest in the world. The national network of roads, railways and airlines almost 7,700 kilometers stretching from Kaliningrad in the west of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east, and major cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, which serve large transit systems fast. Russia has adopted two national transport strategies in recent years. The May 12, 2005, the Russian Ministry of Transport approved the Transport Strategy of the Russian Federation in 2020. Three years later, on November 22, 2008, the Russian government approved a revised strategy, extending to 2030. The export of transport services is an important component of the Gross Domestic Product of Russia. The Government anticipates that between 2007 and 2030, the measures included in its transport strategy 2008 export of transportation services will increase by a total of 80 billion dollars, up seven times in 2008. The value weight cargo transported abroad is expected to increase from 28 million tons to 100 million tons during the same period. Russia has the second largest rail network of the world's largest, second only to the United States, one with a total track length of 87,157 kilometers since 2011. Of this amount, 86,200 kilometers use a gauge of 1,520 mm, while close track of 1,067 mm is used on a stretch of 957 kilometers of railway in the Sakhalin Island. The electrified tracks are about half of the Russian rail network, ie, a total of 40,300 kilometers, but takes most rail traffic. The Russian Railways, the national railway company, is one of the largest transportation companies in the world and enjoy the monopoly of rail transport in Russia. Established in 1992, employs some 950,000 people and accounted for 2.5% of total GDP in 2009. In 2006 Russia had 933,000 km of roads, of which 755,000 were paved. Some of them are the Russian federal highway system. The road safety in Russia is poor and traffic accident deaths per million population is greater than all the countries of G8 countries and BRIC, although the absolute number is less than China, India and the United States. In assessing the level of risk when traveling on Russian roads (ie, the number of accidents per unit displacement) this is 60 times greater than that of Britain. With a large land area, road density Russia It is the lowest of all the G8 countries and the BRIC. According to data from the Maritime Board (Morskaya Kollegiya) of the Russian Government in 2004, were loaded 136.6 million tons in the inland waterways of Russia and the volume of total cargo transport is 87,556.5 million ton-km. During the same year, 53 companies were engaged in transporting passengers via inland waterways of Russia, which transported 22.8 million passengers, the total volume of river passenger transport was 841.1 million passenger-kilometers. The transport system of Russia is characterized by well-developed transport network, one of the most extensive in the world, including 87 thousand. Km of railways, more than 745 thousand. Huge space and harsh climate determined the utmost importance for the Russian all-weather land transport modes - rail and pipeline. On them falls the bulk of freight transportation. Water transport plays in Russia a much smaller role in the short navigation period. Russia's transport system has a complex structure, it includes several subsystems (rail, road, sea, river, air and pipelines), each of which consists of the basic elements: infrastructure, transport facilities and management. By the transport system are transport hubs and corridors, as well as industrial and public transportation. Infrastructure is generally considered by industry. The main thing in Russia is the Volga-Kama river basin, which accounts for 40% of freight river fleet. core unified water system of the European part of Russia, and Moscow - "port of five seas." Other important rivers of European Russia are the Northern Dvina River and its tributaries, Sukhona, Onega, Svir, Neva. Air transport is the most expensive, which limits its use of cargo, it has a greater importance for passenger traffic. In areas of the Far North the important role played by helicopters: carrying cargo and passengers on facilities, providing emergency medical assistance and so on. D. The main centers of air travel are Moscow, St. Petersburg, resorts Northern Tomsk. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !!