Russian Railways
The initial public railway in Russia started between Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo in 1838. Even though this was a period when Imperial Russia was becoming less isolationist than hitherto, small thought was given to possible through rail traffic with Western Europe and a gauge of 5 English feet (later slightly narrowed to 1520mm) was chosen. This was to become the Russian standard gauge utilized throughout the Empire, and would be imposed by the Soviet Union on the states that were absorbed.
• RZD Russian Railways
• Moscow Metro (Site in Russian)
• St Petersburg Metro (Site in Russian)
• Chelyabinsk Metro under construction (Site in Russian)
• Kazan Metro under construction
• Novosibirsk Metro
• Metros in Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Samara, Yekaterinburg (No websites located at present)
• Funiculars in Sochi, Vladivostok (No websites located at present)
• Trams in various main cities (No websites located at present)
• Sakhalin
The railways on the island of Sakhalin are operated as an entity in their own right. The initial line started in 1906 in the southern part of the island, at that time the Japanese province of Karafuto. It was built to the customary narrow gauge of Japanese railways, namely 3ft 6in (1067mm). Subsequent growth under Russian control was to the same gauge, and there is now a network running the length of the island.
Sakhalin Railways (No website located at present)

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