Transportationin Russia

Airports:
1,730 (2005)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 640
over 3,047 m: 51
2,438 to 3,047 m: 199
1,524 to 2,437 m: 129
914 to 1,523 m: 109
under 914 m: 152 (2005)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 1,090
over 3,047 m: 16
2,438 to 3,047 m: 30
1,524 to 2,437 m: 88
914 to 1,523 m: 135
under 914 m: 821 (2005)

Heliports:
42 (2005)

Pipelines:
condensate 122 km; gas 150,007 km; oil 75,539 km; refined products 13,771 km (2004)

Railways:
total: 87,157 km
broad gauge: 86,200 km 1.520-m gauge (40,300 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 957 km 1.067-m gauge (on Sakhalin Island)
note: an additional 30,000 km of non-common carrier lines serve industries (2004)

Roadways:
total: 537,289 km
paved: 362,133 km
unpaved: 175,156 km (2001)

Waterways:
96,000 km
note: 72,000 km system in European Russia links Baltic Sea, White Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Azov, and Black Sea (2004)

Merchant marine:
total: 1,199 ships (1000 GRT or over) 5,138,457 GRT/6,385,116 DWT
by type: barge carrier 48, bulk carrier 44, cargo 766, chemical tanker 24, container 12, passenger 12, passenger/cargo 9, petroleum tanker 218, refrigerated cargo 49, roll on/roll off 12, specialized tanker 5
foreign-owned: 86 (Cyprus 1, Estonia 1, Germany 2, Greece 1, Latvia 2, Malta 5, Norway 1, Russia 1, Sweden 1, Switzerland 8, Turkey 54, Ukraine 9)
registered in other countries: 382 (Antigua and Barbuda 6, The Bahamas 4, Belize 33, Cambodia 73, Comoros 5, Cyprus 54, Denmark 1, Dominica 2, Georgia 20, North Korea 2, Latvia 1, Liberia 65, Malta 60, Marshall Islands 1, Mongolia 10, Panama 6, Russia 1, Saint Kitts and Nevis 4, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 21, Sierra Leone 1, unknown 10, Vanuatu 1, Venezuela 1) (2005)

Ports and terminals:
Anapa, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Novorossiysk, Rostov-na-Donu, Saint Petersburg, Taganrog, Vanino, Vostochnyy

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