OREANDA-NEWS. August 12, 2010. During 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", reported the press-centre of RZD.

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.