Russian Railways invests over 136 billion roubles in development so far in 2010During the first 7 months of 2010 Russian Railways implemented major investment projects, in particular the "Complete Reconstruction of the Mga - Gatchina - Veimarn - Ivangorod stretch and railway approaches to ports on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finnland", the "Complete Reconstruction of the Maxim Gorky - Kotelnikov - Tikhoretskaya - Krymskaya stretch with a bypass of the Krasnodar transport hub," and the "Complete Reconstruction of the line between Karymskaya and Zabaikalsk."

Infrastructure projects for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are proceeding rapidly, especially the project "Combined Road and Rail Link between Adler - the Alpika mountain resort - Servis.

In the first 7 months of 2010, Russian Railways purchased 219 locomotives and 411 carriages of rolling stock for suburban services.

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