Transportation
Omsk is a big transport hub—a key communication link for both Siberia and Russia nationwide. It is located at the junction of two major traffic arteries—Trans-Siberian railway and Irtysh river.
©Photo: Dmitry Roudakov
Railroad terminal in Omsk
City public passenger transport includes:
- 773 high-capacity buses, where 754 buses belong to municipal transport enterprises and 19 buses are private-owned;
- more than 1,000 medium-capacity buses and 2,800 minibuses;
- 167 electric trolleys;
- 90 trams.
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Omsk refurbished tram
Commodity and passenger flows are served by railway, motor vehicles, river and air transport. Railway terminal, bus station, river port and airport are progressing as connected components of a modern transport hub.
©Photo: Dmitry Roudakov
Public transport in the city
Besides, Omsk is a junction point of some interstate roads:
- R-254 Irtysh: Chelyabinsk—Kurgan—Omsk—Novosibirsk (former road M51);
- R-402: Tymen—Omsk;
- M38: Omsk—Cherlak—Kazakhstan border.