et Service Providers (ISPs): 35 (2000)

Internet users: 9.2 million (2000)

Transportation Russia

Railways: total: 87,157 km broad gauge: 86,200 km 1.520-m gauge (40,300
km are electrified) narrow gauge: 957 km 1.067-m gauge (installed on
Sakhalin Island) note: an additional 63,000 km of broad gauge routes serve
specific industries and are not available for common carrier use (2002)

Highways: total: 952,000 km paved: 752,000 km (including about 336,000
km of conventionally paved roads, and about 416,000 km of roads with
all-weather gravel surfaces) unpaved: 200,000 km (these roads are made of
unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1998)

Waterways: 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 (Jan 1994)

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

Ports and harbors: Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan',
De-Kastri, Indigirskiy, Kaliningrad, Kandalaksha, Kazan', Khabarovsk,
Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lazarev, Mago, Mezen', Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka,
Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk, Onega, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Rostov,
Shakhtersk, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Taganrog, Tuapse, Uglegorsk, Vanino,
Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg

Merchant marine: total: 888 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,390,745
GRT/5,357,436 DWT ships by type: barge carrier 1, bulk 21, cargo 556,
chemical tanker 7, combination bulk 21, combination ore/oil 6, container
29, multi-functional large-load carrier 1, passenger 41, passenger/cargo
3, petroleum tanker 153, refrigerated cargo 22, roll on/roll off 20,
short-sea passenger 7 note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered
here as a flag of convenience: Belize 1, Cambodia 1, Cyprus 9, Denmark
1, Estonia 4, Greece 3, Honduras 1, Latvia 4, Lithuania 3, Moldova 3,
Netherlands 1, South Korea 1, Turkey 18, Turkmenistan 2, Ukraine 10,
United Kingdom 5, United States 1 (2002 est.)

Airports: 2,743 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: 178 1,524 to 2,437 m: Airports - with
unpaved runways: 118 1,524 to 2,437 m: Military Russia

Military branches: Ground Forces, Navy, Air Forces, Space Forces,
Airborne Forces, Strategic Rocket Forces

Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)

Military manpowe