MOSCOW opened its 197th metro station on September 21, when commercial services began operating on the 0.9km southeastern extension of Line 7 from Zhulebino to Kotelniki.
RUSSIA's second city, St Petersburg, has awarded a contract to PK Transportnye Sistemy, Russia, for 10 low-floor LRVs.
UZBEKISTAN Railways (UZ) has completed the electrification and modernisation of the 140.8km line linking Samarkand with Qarshi in the southwest.
A fleet of five type 71-911 City Star low-floor trams has entered passenger service on the 91km tram network in the in the Russian city of Tver.
SOLARIS, Poland, has delivered the first of 15 standard-gauge Tramino S111O low-floor LRVs for the first phase of the light rail network in the Polish city of Olsztyn.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) has begun commercial operation of the first of a batch of triple-section dc electric freight locomotives, produced by Transmashholding's NEVZ plant.
THE first two of five double-deck Kiss EMUs ordered from Stadler by Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) under a €70m contract signed in May have arrived in the Azerbaijan capital Baku.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) began selling tickets on May 6 for its new Moscow - Nizhniy Novgorod Strizh (Swift) services, which will be launched on June 1 using RZD's new fleet of Talgo coaches and EP 20 electric locomotives.
RUSSIA's prime minister Mr Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the minister of transport Mr Maxim Sokolov to remove all obstacles to allow the start of construction of the Russian section of a rail link across the Amur River to China by May 5.
KAZAKH president Mr Nursultan Nazarbayev inaugurated the southern extension of Almaty metro Line 1 to Moskva on April 18.