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TRANSPORTATION

Railways (1998):
total: 149,000 km
note: 86,000 km are in common carrier service; 63,000 km serve specific industries and are not available for common carrier use; 40,000 km of the railway in common carrier use are electrified.
broad gauge: 149,000 km 1.520-m gauge

Highways (1998):
total: 952,000 km
paved: 752,000 km (including, in addition to about 336,000 km of conventionally paved roads, about 416,000 km of roads, the surfaces of which have been stabilized with gravel or other coarse aggregates, making them trafficable in wet weather).
unpaved: 200,000 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather)

Waterways (Jan 1994):
95,900 km (total routes in general use)

note: routes with navigation guides serving the Russian River Fleet-95,900 km;
routes with night navigational aids-60,400 km;
man-made navigable routes-16,900 km

Pipelines (June 1993 est.):
crude oil 48,000 km;
petroleum products 15,000 km;
natural gas 140,000 km

Ports and harbors: Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Kaliningrad, Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Saint Petersburg, Rostov, Sochi, Tuapse, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg.

Merchant marine (2000 est.):
total: 878 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,314,485 GRT/5,344,958 DWT.
ships by type: barge carrier 1, bulk 20, cargo 543, chemical tanker 4, combination bulk 21, combination ore/oil 7, container 31, multi-functional large-load carrier 1, passenger 35, passenger/cargo 3, petroleum tanker 164, refrigerated cargo 24, roll on/roll off 17, short-sea passenger 7.
note: includes a foreign-owned ship registered here as a flag of convenience: Reunion 1

Airports: 2,743 (2000 est.)

Airports — with paved runways (2000 est.):
total: 471
over 3,047 m: 56
2,438 to 3,047 m: 178
1,524 to 2,437 m: 76
914 to 1,523 m: 69
under 914 m: 92

Airports — with unpaved runways (2000 est.):
total: 2,272
over 3,047 m: 28
2,438 to 3,047 m: 118
1,524 to 2,437 m: 204
914 to 1,523 m: 324
under 914 m: 1,598


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