 1837 – the Tsarskoye Selo Railway (27 km);

1843 – Inkerman Railway (about one km);

1848 – the Warsaw-Vienna Railway (800 km);

1851 – Nikolayev Railway (645 km);

1855 – The Balaklava Railway (about 23 km);

1861 – the Riga-Dinaburg railway (218 km)

1862 – the Petersburg-Warsaw Railway (1116 km)

1862 – the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod railway (437 km)

1868 – Moscow-Kursk railway (543 km)

1870 – Yaroslavl Railway

1878 – the Ural Mining and Railroads (by 1880–715 km);

1884 – Catherine (Krivorog (g)) railway) (by 1884–523 km);

1890 – Samara-Zlatoust railway (1888 – Samara-Ufa, by 1893 about 1500 km);

1898 – the Perm-Kotlas railway;

1900 – The Ussuri railway (964 km);

1900 – the Moscow-Savyolovo line

1903 – the Sino-Eastern Railway (Manchurian, Chinese Changchun, Harbin);

1905 – Trans-Baikal Railway; The Circum-Baikal Railway; Petersburg-Vologda railway

1906 – Theological Railway; The Tashkent railway;

1908 – Moscow District Railway

1915 – the Altai Railway;

1916 – the Amur Railway; The Volga-Bugulma Railway; West-Ural railway; The Moscow-Kazan railway; North-Eastern Ural Railway; The Trans-Siberian Railway (historical part);

1926 – the Achinsk-Minusinsk railway;

1930 – the Turkestan-Siberian Railway;

1936 – 1937 – The Norilsk Railway

1940 – Kanash–Cheboksary

1944 – The Big Ring of the Moscow Railway

1969 – the line of Verbilki–Dubna

1978 – Rostov-Krasnodar–Tuapse; Yurovsky–Anapa

2003 – the Baikal–Amur mainline;

2013 – Adler–Rosa Farm

2016 – Moscow Central Ring

2017 – The railway line bypassing Ukraine

2017 – the Amur–Yakutsk railway.2019 – Railway bridge to the Crimea

2023 – BCM Moscow–Kazan (draft)

2023 – Northern Latitudinal Railway (project)

2030 – Magadan Highway (Lower Bestyah–Moma–Magadan) (project)
Russian Railways accounts for 2.5% of Russia's GDP and employs 800,000 people.The percentage of passenger traffic that goes by rail is unknown, since no statistics are available for private transportation such as private automobiles.