Editing Transport in Russia (section)

==Rail transport==
[[Image:Moscow metro 81-740 train Arbatskaya station (17067544283).jpg|thumb|[[Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line]]]]

{{Main article|Rail transport in Russia}}
{{see also|History of rail transport in Russia|Russian Railways}}
Russia has the world's third-largest [[railway]] network, behind only the [[United States]] and [[China]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2121rank.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613005508/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2121rank.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 13, 2007|title=The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency|website=www.cia.gov|language=en|access-date=2018-03-23}}</ref> with a total track length of {{convert|85600|km|mi}} as of 2019.<ref name="rzd">{{cite web|url=https://eng.rzd.ru/en/9498|title=The Company|publisher=Russian Railways|language=en|access-date=2020-11-15}}</ref> It  uses a broad [[rail gauge]] of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}. Electrified track accounts for around half of the Russian railway network — totalling {{convert|43800|km|mi}}<ref name="rzd"/> — but carries the majority of railway traffic.<ref name="freight-by-electric">{{cite web|url=http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/B09_55/IssWWW.exe/Stg/02-15.htm|title=Перевозки грузов и грузооборот железнодорожного транспорта общего пользования|website=www.gks.ru}}</ref> 
[[File:Locomotives in Oryol depot.jpg|thumb|Russian locomotives]]
[[Russian Railways]], the state-owned national rail carrier, is one of the world's largest transport companies, enjoying a [[monopoly]] over rail transport in Russia. Established in 1992, it employs an estimated 950,000 people, and accounted for 2.5% of the entire national GDP in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/B09_55/IssWWW.exe/Stg/01-03.htm|title=Среднегодовая численность работников транспорта по субъектам Российской Федерации в 2008 г.|website=www.gks.ru}}</ref><ref>Lenta.RU News [http://www.lenta.ru/news/2009/11/17/rzhd/ "РЖД попросила правительство заняться спасением железных дорог"] {{in lang|ru}} (RZhD asks government to rescue the railroad)</ref> In 2007 alone, Russian Railways carried a total of 1.3 billion passengers<ref>[http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b08_55/IssWWW.exe/Stg/2-28.htm Table 2.28. ПЕРЕВОЗКИ ПАССАЖИРОВ И ПАССАЖИРООБОРОТ ЖЕЛЕЗНОДОРОЖНОГО ТРАНСПОРТА ОБЩЕГО ПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ; TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS AND PASSENGER TURNOVER OF PUBLIC RAILWAY TRANSPORT] Основные показатели транспортной деятельности в России - 2008 г.
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[[Image:Sm6_«Allegro»,_Выборг_(cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Allegro (train)|Allegro]] trains near [[Vyborg]]]]
[[File:Service trams in Tula, Russia.jpg|thumb|Trams in [[Tula, Russia|Tula]]]]

===Rapid-transit systems===
*[[Moscow Metro]] – 13 lines, 207 stations, 349.5&nbsp;km
*[[Saint Petersburg Metro]] – 5 lines, 69 stations, 113.2&nbsp;km
*[[Novosibirsk Metro]] – 2 lines, 13 stations, 15.9&nbsp;km
*[[Nizhny Novgorod Metro]] – 2 lines, 14 stations, 18.8&nbsp;km
*[[Samara Metro]] – 1 line, 10 stations, 12.7&nbsp;km
*[[Yekaterinburg Metro]] – 1 line, 9 stations, 12.7&nbsp;km
*[[Kazan Metro]] – 1 line, 10 stations, 15.8&nbsp;km

Also, there is a [[Volgograd Metrotram|Metrotram]] system in [[Volgograd]] and three more cities with metro systems under construction:
*[[Omsk Metro|Omsk]]
*[[Chelyabinsk Metro|Chelyabinsk]]
*[[Krasnoyarsk Metro|Krasnoyarsk]]

===Rail links with adjacent countries===
Voltage of [[railway electrification system|electrification system]]s not necessarily compatible.

*[[Transport in Norway#Rail transport|Norway]] – No – But Proposed Via [[Transport in Finland#Railways|Finland]] & [[Transport in Sweden#Railways|Sweden]] – [[break of gauge]] {{RailGauge|1524mm}}/{{RailGauge|1435mm}}, or [[Murmansk]] – [[Kirkenes]] (10&nbsp;km of {{RailGauge|1435mm}} on the Norwegian side will probably be widened to {{RailGauge|1520mm}} {{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
*[[Transport in Finland#Railways|Finland]] – Yes&nbsp;— ''same'' gauge of {{RailGauge|1524mm}}/{{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in Estonia#Railways|Estonia]] – Yes&nbsp;— same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in Latvia#Railways|Latvia]] – Yes&nbsp;— same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in Lithuania#Railways|Lithuania]] – Yes – same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in Poland#Railways|Poland]] – Yes – Via [[Transportation in Kaliningrad Oblast|Kaliningrad Oblast]]<ref group="note">Trains from contiguous Russia use Belarus route.</ref> – [[break of gauge]] {{RailGauge|1520mm}}/{{RailGauge|1435mm}}
*[[BŽD|Belarus]] – Yes – same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in Ukraine#Rail|Ukraine]] – No – same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in Georgia (country)#Railways|Georgia]] – Yes – same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transportation in Azerbaijan#Railways|Azerbaijan]] – Yes – same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in Kazakhstan#Railways|Kazakhstan]] – Yes – same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in the People's Republic of China#Rail|China]] – Yes – [[break of gauge]] {{RailGauge|1520mm}}/{{RailGauge|1435mm}}
*[[Transportation in Mongolia#Railways|Mongolia]] – Yes – same gauge of {{RailGauge|1520mm}}
*[[Transport in North Korea#Railways|North Korea]] – Yes – [[break of gauge]] {{RailGauge|1520mm}}/{{RailGauge|1435mm}}
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