OREANDA-NEWS. September 10, 2012. In August 2012, Russian Railways carried 98.1 million passengers on its own infrastructure, 5.1% more than in August last year, including 84.3 million suburban (+5.9%) and 13.7 million (+0.6%) long-distance passengers, reported the press-centre of RZD.

Passenger turnover in August 2012 amounted to 18.7 billion passenger-kilometres, 2.2% more than in August last year.

During January-August 2012, 698,800,000 passengers were carried, 7.1% more than in the same period of 2011, including 80.2 million (+1.9%) long-distance and 618,600,000 (+7.9%) suburban passengers.

Passenger turnover on the Russian Railways’ network since the beginning of 2012 increased by 3.9% compared to last year and amounted to 99.8 billion passenger-kilometres.