Medvedev discovered a car in every Russian family

Every Russian family has a car, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on the Vesti on Saturday program. Speaking about the transport situation in the country, Medvedev noted that the population of Russia has become "absolutely automobile."

The Prime Minister stressed that roads are therefore an absolute priority for the government and the regions.

“I have already held several meetings with my fellow governors, saying that even the small funds that you can free up must be directed to roads. The population of our country has become absolutely automobile. In the Soviet period, every tenth person had a car. Now every family has a car, everyone drives. Therefore, roads are an absolute priority.”

Government of the Russian Federation

• In Russia, according to the analytical agency Avtostat, there are 285 cars per thousand people. In the US, for example, this figure exceeds 800 cars per thousand people.
• Data from "AUTOSTAT" as of July 1, 2015 shows that 49 percent of families in Russia do not have a car. 34 percent of families own one car, more than 13 percent own two cars.