Editing Transport in Russia (section)

==Pipelines==
[[File:Dmitriy Medvedev Nord Stream 9 April 2010.jpeg|thumbnail|Russian President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] at a ceremony marking the start of construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline's underwater section in Vyborg in 2010]]
{{main article|Energy policy of the Soviet Union|Energy policy of Russia}}
Russia is home to the world's longest [[pipeline transport|oil pipeline]], the [[Druzhba pipeline]] and in fact one of the biggest oil pipeline networks in the world. It carries oil some {{convert|4000|km|mi|-2}} from the eastern part of European [[Russia]] to points in [[Ukraine]], [[Belarus]], [[Poland]], [[Hungary]], [[Slovakia]], the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Germany]]. The network also branches out into numerous pipelines to deliver oil throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. The name "Druzhba" means "friendship", alluding to the fact that the pipeline supplied oil to the energy-hungry western regions of the [[Soviet Union]], to its "fraternal socialist allies" in the former [[Soviet bloc]], and to western Europe. Today, it is the largest principal artery for the transportation of Russian (and Kazakh) oil across Europe.

On 29 October 2012 president [[Vladimir Putin]] instructed the general manager of Gazprom to start the construction of the pipeline. On 21 May 2014, Russia and China signed a 30-year gas deal that was needed to make the project feasible.  Construction was launched on 1 September 2014 in [[Yakutsk]] by Putin and Chinese deputy premier minister [[Zhang Gaoli]].<ref name=rfe010914>
{{cite news
 | url = http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-china-gas-pipeline-yakutsk/26559938.html
 | title = Putin In Yakutsk To Inaugurate Construction Of Pipeline To China
 | date = 1 September 2014
 | agency = [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]
 | access-date= 2014-09-02}}
</ref><ref name=itar-tass010914>
{{cite news
 | url = http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/747552
 | title = Putin gives start to Power of Siberia gas pipeline construction
 | date = 1 September 2014
 | agency = [[ITAR-TASS]]
 | access-date=2014-09-02}}
</ref>