The government allocated Russian Railways for nearly 65 billion rubles of state support

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed documents on an increase in the authorized capital of Russian Railways for the implementation of investment projects, the government’s website reported. In 2015, 64.2 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget of Russian Railways.

Of this amount, 22 billion will go to the development of the Moscow Region railway infrastructure and the development of the transport complex of the Moscow region, about 17 billion rubles will be required to modernize the BAM and the Trans -Siberian Railway, 3.03 billion for design work on the creation of a high -speed Moscow -Kazan railway. The remaining funds are also provided for the implementation of specific projects in the regions.

In 2014, the government increased the authorized capital of Russian Railways three times. Budget funds for a total of about 30 billion rubles were allocated for the development of transport infrastructure of the Moscow region, including the development of a small ring of the Moscow Railway.

In addition to the planned budgetary support of Russian Railways, he receives other forms of the earnings, resembles Kommersant . In 2014, the head of the monopoly, Vladimir Yakunin, asked to index the railway tariff for 2015 by 10% instead of 6% (inflation rate) and allocate another 45 billion rubles, otherwise Russian Railways threatened the annual loss of 100 billion rubles due to a drop in loading and frozen tariffs.

As a result, Russian Railways obtained additional tariff growth and received 30 billion rubles from the budget, another 23 billion - compensation for long -distance passenger transportation and 27 billion for suburban transport. Bonds of the monopoly should be bought for 100 billion rubles through VTB, but so far only 30 billion of them reached JSC Russian Railways. The balance of the monopoly budget in 2016 may require 70-75 billion rubles, the sources of the publication in May reported.