Infrastructure — Russia
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Russia: 1,218
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Transportation
- Airports - total
1,218
- Airports with Paved Runways
594
- Heliports
49
- Railways
54,157 Miles 87,157 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
797,459 Miles 1,283,387 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
576,459 Miles 927,721 Kilometers
- Waterways
63,380 Miles 102,000 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Kaliningrad, Kavkaz, Nakhodka, Novorossiysk, Primorsk, Saint Petersburg, Vostochnyy
Communications
- Telephones
44,152,000
- Cell Phones
236,700,000
- Internet Users
40,853,000
- Internet Country Code
.ru
- Internet Hosts
14,865,000
- Broadcast Media
- 6 national TV stations with the federal government owning 1 and holding a controlling interest in a second
- state-owned Gazprom maintains a controlling interest in a third national channel
- government-affiliated Bank Rossiya owns controlling interest in a fourth and fifth, while the sixth national channel is owned by the Moscow city administration
- roughly 3,300 national, regional, and local TV stations with over two-thirds completely or partially controlled by the federal or local governments
- satellite TV services are available
- 2 state-run national radio networks with a third majority-owned by Gazprom
- roughly 2,400 public and commercial radio stations
- Telephone System
- general assessment: the telephone system is experiencing significant changes; there are more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services; access to digital lines has improved, particularly in urban centers; Internet and e-mail services are improving; Russia has made progress toward building the telecommunications infrastructure necessary for a market economy; the estimated number of mobile subscribers jumped from fewer than 1 million in 1998 to more than 235 million in 2011; fixed
- line service has improved but a large demand remains domestic: cross-country digital trunk lines run from Saint Petersburg to Khabarovsk, and from Moscow to Novorossiysk; the telephone systems in 60 regional capitals have modern digital infrastructures; cellular services, both analog and digital, are available in many areas; in rural areas, the telephone services are still outdated, inadequate,
- and low density international: country code - 7; Russia is connected internationally by undersea fiber optic cables; satellite earth stations provide access to Intelsat, Intersputnik, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Orbita systems
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,038,000,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
19,140,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,661,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
1,064,000,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
457,200,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
196,000,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
32,500,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
669,700,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
47,800,000,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
3,196,000
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
4,720,000
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
16,380
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
10,370,000
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
80,000,000,000