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Company profile

Open Joint Stock Company Russian Railways is Russia's largest railway company engaged in owning and building public railway infrastructure. The Company ranks among the world’s leading railway carriers by freight and passenger transportation volumes and length of the railway infrastructure network.

Owner of the world's third longest railway network
Unique and highly diversified group
Unprecedented expertise in large-scale projects
Major taxpayer
Driving force of Russia's business community
Prominent player in global railway market
Russia’s largest employer
No. 1 globally by energy efficiency of freight services
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Operating highlights
Investment programme
+27.4%
y-o-y
RUB
479.5
bn
Handling
+3.2%
y-o-y
1,261.3
mt
Lower workplace injury rate
6.2x reduction
since 2003
Environmental costs
RUB 5.0
+
bn
Loaded freight turnover
+6.4%
y-o-y
2,491.9
bn tkm
The number of transported passengers at eight-year high
+7.8%
y-o-y
1,117.9
million passengers
Labour productivity in handling activities
+9.2 %
y-o-y
Real salary growth
+3.9 %
y-o-y
For more details see Perfomance overview
Development Strategy until 2030

The Russian Railways Group's 2030 Development Strategy ( "Russian Railways' Strategy") sets out the Group's goals and objectives, defines its key priorities and describes long-term development projects. The Strategy was approved by the Russian Railways’ Board of Directors in December 2013. Accomplishment of the Group's mission will rely on the achievement of the 2030 strategic goals in five focus areas.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND GOALS ACROSS FOCUS AREAS
TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS SERVICES
PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION
RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
SOCIAL POLICY
High-potential projects
Upgrade of the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian Railways
Development and renovation of the railway infrastructure serving ports of the Azov and Black Seas
Development of the Moscow Transport Hub (MTH)
Upgrade of the railway infrastructure serving ports of the North-Western basin
Construction of the Moscow-Kazan High-Speed Railway
Development of the Krasnoyarsk Railway's Mezhdurechensk–Tayshet section
Development of diametrical intracity rail routes within the MTH
Development of the Northern Latitudinal Railway
Construction of a bypass at the Saratov Transport Hub
Construction of the Selikhin–Nysh railway line with a passage across the Nevelsky Strait
Electrification of the Rtishchevo–Kochetovka section
Electrification of the Ozherelye–Uzlovaya–Yelets section
Development of the Perm Railway Hub and the construction of a river crossing
Development of the Perm–Solikamsk connection
For more details see High-potential projects
Over
RUB
7.5
trillion
investments in railway development until 2025
 
25
million people
annual high-speed rail passenger transportation in 2025
180 years of Russian railways' history

Railways in Russia

St Petersburg–Moscow

Moscow–Vladivostok
Railways in Russia

1898
Steam locomotive
Паровоз
3,277
m poods, equal to
of freight carried in one year
52 mt
2017
Modern freight train
Грузовые перевозки
1,384 mt
of freight carried in 2017
St Petersburg–Moscow

1851
Passenger train with steam locomotive
Паровоз
650 km
main line length
2017
Sapsan high-speed train
Высокоскоростной поезд «Сапсан»
3 h 34 min
travel time
Moscow–Vladivostok

1903
Freight train
Паровоз
9,237 km
main line length
2017
Express train
Скорый поезд
6 days
travel time