russian railways celebrated their twentieth anniversary on october 1, what has been done during this period, how trains are being updated and what still remains to be done, the head of the company oleg belaziarov told our channel in detail about this. oleg vantinovich, well, we meet at the beginning of october, when russian railways turns 20 years old, first of all, i congratulate you on this beautiful anniversary. thank you very much. it’s difficult, i think, to single out perhaps the most important result, but in general, what are you proud of? what, what path did you take? rzd over the years? on the one hand, 20 years is a short period of time, against the backdrop of the entire history of russian railways of 186 years , on the other hand, probably, these 20 years are also special, there are periods when certain decisions are made, something needs to be done, and quickly

, individually, transform, this period... exactly the same, even from the beginning of 2003, 2003 , the transformation itself, the very decision-making on transformation from an mps into an economic entity, when they divided up some of the functions and powers, there was already a very serious transformation, including number in understanding what the railway should do , but certain new functions of the economy appeared. during this period of time, probably what passengers and clients notice first of all, well, here are the numbers , we changed, bought, changed 21,000 new passenger cars, we bought 9,500 new locomotives, we changed 9,500 cars of commuter trains, that’s exactly what immediately catches your eye, we brought

24, almost 24 billion passengers, a huge number, even more than 20 years, i traditionally say that we transported almost everyone three times inhabitant of the globe, and brought more than 25 billion tons of cargo, and most importantly, we got into all the top, in all the top ratings, of the world's railways, well, there is practically not a single specific indicator, no matter where we were in the top three, there is one indicator for passenger transportation, where we are in the top five, but this is due to the fact that the number of inhabitants is not the same as in china and india, and in terms of traffic density, we take first place, we are the most intensive railway in the world . we

transport in terms of cargo intensity , we take second place in terms of cargo turnover, accordingly, we have achieved all these indicators recently , digitalization, convenience, well, i think this is the most important result for russian railways, especially recently, due to a number of circumstances, when passengers began to change perceive the railway, more people came to the railway, the reviews are very good, together with our country we went through a pandemic, it was very hard to work , all the results are the merit of the huge, largest labor collective in russia, these are russian railways, each person made his contribution, starting from

the seedman, the fitter, the driver, the dispatcher, everyone contributed to this wonderful result, we believe that we are better, now let's talk in more detail about virtually every direction that you outlined, let's start with passengers, how the overall passenger flow has changed recently, because you have already very carefully said about the current situation and tourism is certainly developing, and we see external restrictions that are being introduced to... countries in these conditions, what numbers are we heading towards? for us, the key figure was 2019, almost 1 billion 200 million passengers, we compare ourselves with this figure, this year should be somewhere close to this figure, a number of directions we have a very serious increase, this is the south , primarily in connection with restrictions on air transportation, but here

it cannot be said that we have limited someone in transportation, aviation has found additional segments, and we, well, in principle, are now at the level of... record figures, at the same time we we have updated the rolling stock, recently, again, convenience in well, practically in different types of cars, i would note that almost every year we have a implemented idea together with manufacturers, according to the passenger train, starting from compartments, from non-compartments, this is the terminology of flatcars carriages, capsules in sv carriages of various types , showers, sockets, light, individual space, vining devices appear, all this is already a reality today, in the new rolling stock, this

also attracts additional people, you spoke about tourist routes, 4 years ago there were only five of them, today there are... 50, a number of them are extremely in demand, they are winners in our russian nominations, for example, the russian alsky express, there are also social directions, these are transportation, large variable, this is also a very specific rolling stock, with special ones, well, we are creating such innovations just to make it convenient to carry out themed trips, the santa claus train,

very famous seasonal ones for sure seasonal, our colleagues checked, it is in demand almost always, even... uh, in the summer - they ask where this train is, we have a number of exhibition events where we show what this train looks like, we are constantly adding new routes, and the routes are not only federal, since it’s interesting to travel long distances, well, everyone thinks that there is a certain charm in this, which is true, but we and the regions are developing local routes, literally... weekend routes, which are also very in demand, in suburban transportation we we transport more than a billion people annually, a billion 100 million people, now with the launch of new comfortable trains, including city trains, new terminology has also

appeared, city and train, there used to be a suburb, well, the most striking example is moscow mcd, mcc mcd, mtsk, where. goes exponentially, immediately in tens of percent, just recently they launched mtsd-3, mtsd4, an increase of 20-30%, convenience is immediately visible, and comfort, including across the country, mountain and city transportation is also growing, and what was before was, considered a disadvantage, railway tracks inside the city are currently our advantage. since we can miss the wonderful rolling stock as an urban agglomeration transport, our machine builders and partners have created new trains, evilgial, swallows, and other types

of rolling stock that are extremely in demand, very convenient, are in great demand, well, talk a lot about the modernization of rolling stock as well composition and from here it immediately seems to me a logical technological question arises. once upon a time at the time, there really was a purchase of a batch of japanese reals, which were tested in a number of directions , they differ in quality, in some places they were convenient, at the moment all the rails are ours, and rails with increased, with the possibility... of launching additional tonnage, and we we don’t stop with our colleagues, because this is the economy, this is a reduction in our cost and the opportunity not to increase the tariff, we agreed with shippers that we will constantly work on this, we are working with metals, i

think that next year we will get absolutely new rails with new next-generation quality and, well, some of the best in the world, in some cases the quality is even better, for vssm, why can we talk now. we have foreign rolling stock, the sapsan is historical, but we have learned how to maintain it very well, and we have learned, including in certain areas , to produce elements, now we understand that we can produce a train, not this one, but the next one... generation, which will allow us to stand on an equal footing, in the first line, and also to be

leaders in everything, well, no longer replacement, but advance, it turns out, here to go, we are trying, not to say, to catch up, to get ahead, we believe that our railway competencies have always been very good, now these are railway competencies, you asked a figure, the question is about import substitution, we have more 200,000 items are what we use on the railway, and there were about 16-odd thousand elements that used foreign, foreign elements, either large or small, and at the moment there are only about seven or so of them left thousand, everything else was replaced. but we are constantly working not on import substitution, but on understanding

what we can produce at home , together with our manufacturers, because they opened up for us, our manufacturers, on the other hand, maybe they didn’t produce something in their time, but now they are implementing the groundwork that they had and giving us the opportunity , we immediately set the condition that it should... no worse, this should be the next step, just like, well, i already said on osm, and the manufacturers really very happy with this they cope well, in a number of cases where we believe that there is no need to be replaced, there are friendly countries with which we partner, our partners partner, we feel quite confident, well , speaking about the hssm, it seems to me that the most upcoming project is moscow, st. petersburg, then the southern direction is also discussed to yekaterinburg, in this regard, what economic effect do you expect from

the implementation of all these three directions, what are the deadlines, for us everything is not a panacea, like passenger transportation, the fact is that today moment, the most precious thing a person has is time, and everyone wants to spend this time absolutely fairly, accordingly , so that it is not just a journey and a necessity, it is necessary to reduce the time as much as possible, the largest agglomeration is so large, this is, of course, moscow, st. -petersburg, at the moment about 5 million people are transported with apsanas, the whole world will be able to transport about 22 million people, these will be completely different conditions for residents of all cities. which are located in this direction for

tver novgorod, it takes about 40 minutes to get to tver, these are different conditions for the location of production forces, and many other elements, but the infrastructure will change in these cities that are along the way, naturally, it’s absolutely true, people will perceive differently this point, but this is not even the most important thing, not the passengers. and not only the passenger, the fact is that at the moment we have exhausted, are still exhausting, all possibilities for transporting goods, so they are trying to somehow limit us direction for export, and uh, our shippers, the economy, are coping with these challenges very well, and bringing the cargo to us, at the moment, to the north-west is not... so easy, the need for export is much higher, we are now occupying the

existing sapsan the infrastructure that was built in 1851, yes, it has been improved, but i specifically say , this is the old infrastructure, the ballast track, we need to develop, the export of goods, this is income for the country’s economy, we need to build something, that’s the question, what do we need build? we also need passenger traffic, the question is absolutely obvious that it is easier to build and it is more correct to build everything in order for all regions and manufacturers. we were able to transfer an additional volume of cargo along the old routes, and we calculated that this would add up to about 30 million tons of additional cargo. moreover, here is the figure, as i have already given, 5 million and 22 million, well, this is multiple, practically there are other effects, plus for our machine builders - this is, of course, the next

level of development, only in this direction, cargo will go... from the east to west, and siberia, the urals, those who are currently going to the baltic, to murmansk, these are belarusian colleagues, they, so to speak , have finally tested our railway port capacity and the increase is very serious, this historical integration of ours is now giving a very... good effect, the increase is very large, well, we are planning tens of millions of tons there - the export of goods to the north-west, and this is the question of the construction of the high-speed railway. in other directions, the effects will be no less, in some cases more, well, to the south, absolutely

obviously, we cannot travel there either in the direction of azov or the black sea. we need to divide the passenger and cargo infrastructure, this will create better conditions for the passenger, on the other hand there are graphics , well, many technical, technological elements when dividing freight passenger traffic, we will get a better result, and if we go further to the urals, 80% of the population will already be able to use this service, well, in the near future, i suggest we go a little further in conversation, to the far east, and you and i, it seems to me, how once at the eastern economic forum they raised the topic of how today it is necessary to further expand the eastern test site, what investments are needed in order to complete all the plans that you have already voiced, in general, i correctly understand that despite the shifts that may

occurred at the shippers, we are not saying goodbye to any of the directions, neither to the west nor to the east, we are developing together, yes alexander, you are absolutely right, when i asked a question about vssm, i just said that this direction remains absolutely in demand, moreover, uh, we, inside the russian railways, see that unfortunately we are not yet, we are not moving at a faster pace, they always say that the infrastructure must develop at a faster pace, we don’t have time, this is a huge amount of investment, this one is very a complex balance is constantly being sought in the government, we believe that development needs to be more active, a larger volume of investments should be directed to railways, there are certain nuances there, in terms of cavinants, in terms of the budget, but this needs to be done, here in

in relation to the east, for the first time last year, in the second half of last year... the volume of cargo that went to the east exceeded the volume of cargo to the west. we see that growth to the east is more active than to the west, and this trend will continue. we strictly comply with the presidential decree and the government order regarding the timing of commissioning and increase in capacity. this year we must achieve, after holding. work 173 million tons of cargo transportation next year to comply with the decree 180 million tons of cargo shippers must be able to bring it to the east, but there is a need, there are different estimates, we still propose to think about the figure of 255 million, we believe that this is the thirty

-second year, this figure should have been, but there are also figures under 300 million, because of 300 million , such needs, in principle, shippers also voice, this year we have grown, last year we completed the volume of work for 138 billion rubles last year, this year we have already completed 168 billion rubles, by the end of the year there will be 250 billion. this is the volume growth in our railway construction at the eastern site, all on time, but the need is greater, well, investment, probably, first of all. what are you saying, from the business side, for the transportation of more cargo, absolutely, we have not yet achieved this balance, even with such large investments, we have not yet caught up

with our shippers, and the south of the azov-black sea basin the figure is 125 million, according to the decree of the president of the russian federation federation, we have already achieved transportation capabilities, but the figure should be higher, well, we also see here when we discuss with sending cities about 180-200 million by 2030 too most likely there should have been another big project - this is a north-south transport corridor, and we also talk a lot about interaction with other countries, now here how things are going to launch the project in full force because there are also several branches and several different areas of work. indeed, now one of the most important projects, very interesting, very promising, well, very difficult for sure, with

its own difficulties, nothing is easy, diverse, for example on the western branch, on today, last year we grew by almost 40%, the western branch is russia , azerbaijan, georgia, iran, this is how it goes, the eastern branch, this year, is growing more actively, our eastern branch goes through kazakhstan and turkmenistan to iran, but we had to learn how to cross the border, this is paperwork, that is , all services, including. services of different countries must work in the same key, many elements need to be developed, finalized, agreed upon, absolutely fair, everyone

is at a different level, including digitalization and legislation, all this needs to be harmonized, from a technical point of view, it is necessary to increase the volume of construction, this and... the resh tora section of about 160 km in iran, which should be built there, there is no railway connection between azerbaijan with an internal iranian line, yes, here it is it will be necessary to complete the construction by the twenty-seventh year and about 15 million tons can then be carried out directly, while the corridor branches out, well, something... is extinguished, as we say, extinguished, that is, consumed inside azerbaijan, something

passes through georgia, to turkey, uh, flows will change accordingly, but the need, we see, uh, will also increase, bottlenecks, this is our border crossing at the samor station with azerbaijan, we plan to increase to 15 million in 25. and the next stage is up to 20 million throughput, but these bottlenecks, they are starting to form in a number of cases before dagestan, we need to look at long-range approaches, the so-called, they are located in the astrakhan region, in the volgograd region, which we will also develop, well we are negotiating with colleagues from kazakhstan and turkmenistan, we have carried out diagnostics of their transportation capacities, we are working, including on the border with iran, between turkmenistan and

iran, on how to improve the technology, you have now mentioned a lot in your various answers, the question of what needs to be changed, supplement, refine, invest the investment program from there may be the current global situation, due to the fact that many new directions need to be developed, even those that we are discussing have greatly changed the parameters of the investment program that exist or no? i think that it is very, very significant, and, last year, 868 billion, this year there will be 200 trillion, initially they planned 84 trillion, but taking into account the needs and additional volumes of transportation, additional income, more than 100 billion more, and then this

not enough, next year we are currently discussing about 300 billion. well, in general, according to our estimates, our investment program should have been, well, somewhere around 2 rubles, in order for all the areas in which you are asking questions, it would be possible to at least somehow satisfy, but i think not there is always enough not only money, but also people with personnel, how are things going, and if there is a problem, then what should we do to solve it, we really have questions regarding... the far east now recruiting people from siberia and before in total, these are working specialties, we have about 60%, the ratio is 60 work specialties, 40, this is engineering and technical personnel, these are the problems that are arising now, well, how we solve them, this includes the precise implementation of our

collective. all indexations, we follow the consumer price index when the government approves, forecasts, figures, we immediately index, additional opportunities under the collective agreement, this includes healthcare, in the far east we are trying to create the most comfortable conditions, including for a mortgage, to buy housing after some period. time, additional salary allowances, opportunities for people to live, so that the number of people, those who want to live in comfortable conditions, still increases, this is our main task, we are trying to solve it this way, well, given such a twenty-year anniversary and such a definite summing up of temporary results, i can’t help but ask about one more area of ​​work, i think my last question will be about the environment, but

because i remember that it seems to me that russian railways was... one of those companies when the abbreviation first appeared , which has very actively entered into this agenda, in principle, transport itself is the most environmentally friendly, taking into account, i think, even external challenges and the work that you are now doing in the country, the environmental issue, you have not forgotten to work in this direction? we are making every effort to ensure that every element is logically verified, we have approved a new environmental strategy, well, you correctly said that the railway is the... cleanest form of transport, our emissions are only 1% of the total volume in the russian federation, very we are attentive to the implementation of the instructions of the president of the russian federation regarding construction in the baikal zone, we use the principle that if we come and do something, when we leave it should be better than it was before us, accordingly we we also compensate by planting trees.

we clean up additionally, we have practically no wastewater, uh, we don’t pollute the air, we change boiler rooms, that is, we change the accumulated damage in some cases that was created before us, thank you very much for the interview, oleg valentinovich, and of course, i can wish good luck in implementing all those projects that we have just talked about here, thank you, thank you very much, thank you very much alexander, well, then on our broadcast, the broadcast from the foreign ministry, the decision was canceled by a special appeal tribunal international paralympic committee in april twenty-third. the tribunal did not find a violation of membership obligations on the part of the russian paralympic committee. separately, the inconsistency of the accusations of violation of the olympic truce committee by the committee was noted, and it was pointed out that due to the absence of a formalized legal regime for the olympic truce, neither the russian paralympic committee nor other national committees have legal

obligations to comply with it. unfortunately, the decision of the highest arbitration body the international paralympic committee did not stop the rabid functionaries, who still consider themselves bureaucrats from sports, to once again bring up the issue of suspending the membership of the russian paralympic committee in this organization and not allowing paralympic athletes to participate in competitions at the general assembly of the international paralympic committee, because it should be a shame it may not be that only the legal body gave its conclusion, but ... there is a conscience, but there is an understanding of what path the people who have become disabled for various reasons, and at the same time, by their example, they prove that life goes on, no matter what, which gives hope to a huge number of people to live on, to move forward.