VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The development priority of Russian Railways (RZD) is to strengthen and renew infrastructure in its main transit and export-oriented areas of operation.
Acting in line with Russia's Railway Transport Development Strategy, RZD approved an investment programme of 263 billion roubles in 2009. It continued to modernise its main assets, putting in place a high-speed train service between St Petersburg and Helsinki, developing access routes to the ports of Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan (including modernisation of the Oune-Vysokogornaya link and building a new Kuznetsovsky tunnel), building a 53-km route to bypass the area affected by the accident near Berezniki, and developing approach routes to the new oil terminal in the Far East.
One of RZD's priorities is to provide transport support for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, on Black Sea coast. This involves developing the Tuapse-Adler rail link, building a combined motor-rail route from Adler to the Alpica Service mountain resort, organising transportation between Sochi, Adler and Sochi Airport, and providing supply deliveries for the construction of Olympic facilities.
RZD has laid 87.7 km of additional main routes, completed several modernisation projects, built 53 km of new lines and modernised nearly 170 km of cantenary. It has modernised the Nankhchul, Lagar-Aul, Navaginka and the Greater Novorossiysk tunnels and other facilities.
As a result, it has cut the length of congested routes by nearly 1,000 km, or 15%.
Over 60 billion roubles have been invested in the renewal of RZD's rolling stock. The holding has bought over 9,500 freight wagons (including for its subsidiaries), or half of the total number produced in the country.
The company has a draft investment budget for 2010 of 270.5 billion roubles, an increase of 2.9% compared to 2009, and the budget for Olympic projects has been increased by 51.8% to 71.8 billion roubles.
