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An advantageous geographical location and a traditional role of Nizhny Novgorod as a trade center gave premises for creation of a comparatively high-developed transport infrastructure. Railways, motor roads, water- and airways conveniently connect Nizhny Novgorod with any Russian region, the CIS and foreign states.
The Nizhny Novgorod transport junction, which includes 3 railway stations, a river port, a steamery, an international airport "Nizhny Novgorod", 2 lanes of lending of all types of planes, is one of the most visited and sophisticated in Russia. Rivers and channels connect Nizhny Novgorod with 5 seas and afterwards an exit into the ports of the Scandinavic countries, the Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
The location of the City in dozens of kms. along the rivers, its occupied area, almost 1,5 mls. of population made outlines of a complicated structure and a size of the City's transport system.
The City's public transport is represented by buses, trams, trolley buses, a subway and taxis.
The public transport's route network development has attained quite high figures.
The route network today, that is 20 trolley bus and 20 tram itineraries, 114 bus itineraries of municipal and state enterprises. In addition to it, the private sector has developed lately, and today 87 bus itineraries are of private enterprises servicing. Nizhny Novgorod subway lines has a total length of 14 kms. and 13 stations. In order to provide effectiveness of the transport work in the City a decision was made to extend a subway line "Avtozavodskaya - Nizhegorodskaya" to an upper part of the City up to a station "Gorkovskaya" with building of a subway bridge across the Oka river.
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