OREANDA-NEWS. November 07, 2011. According to the latest figures, in October 2011 86.5 million passengers travelled on Russian Railways infrastructure, up 6% compared to the same period last year. Suburban passenger numbers stood at 77.8 million, an increase of 6.7%, while long-distance passengers rose slightly by 0.2% to 8.7 million, reported the press-centre of RZD.

Passenger turnover in October 2011 amounted to 10.5 billion passenger-kilometres, 0.1% less than during the same month last year.

In January-October 2011, 827 million passengers travelled on Russian Railways infrastructure, 4.5% more than during the same period in 2010. At 97.1 million, long-distance passengers remained at the same level as last year, while suburban passengers were up 5.1% to 729.9 million.

Passenger turnover on the Russian Railways network in the 10 months of 2011 grew by 0.3% compared to last year and amounted to 119.3 billion passenger-kilometres.