Russian Railways’ contribution to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals and implementing Russia’s national projects

• We are attracting agricultural sector enterprises to railway transport through targeted client engagement across all categories, developing multimodal delivery services, and boosting agricultural cargo volumes as part of our Agroexpress project.
• In 2024, we created synergy between Agroexpress and our SME Export Express service by integrating autonomous refrigerated containers of agricultural products from domestic exporters into the service’s container trains. This enabled us to dispatch 368 large refrigerated containers (736 TEU) for export and 581 large refrigerated containers (1,132 TEU) for import, carrying poultry, beef, pork, and baby food.

• 99.2% of employees underwent annual preventive medical examinations, with over 64.4% of employees classified in health groups 1 and 2.
• We maintained the rate of accidents caused by abruptly deteriorating health conditions at zero.
• We launched the Saint Panteleimon unique mobile consultative and diagnostic centre.
• We held more than 360 blood donation events, collecting a total of 5.8 t of blood.
• As part of our Healthy Lifestyle target programme, we held around 11,000 physical education and preventive measures, attracting over 2.6 million attendees from among the Company’s employees, their family members, and industry veterans.
• We saw the share of employees fully adhering to healthy lifestyle behaviours (proper nutrition, increased physical activity, abstaining from smoking and alcohol consumption, and undergoing preventive check‑ups) increase to 17.6% (from 16.6% in 2023).

• The Company is the founder of 98 educational institutions, including 77 kindergartens and 21 Russian Railways lyceums.
• We established 109 RZD classes within corporate and municipal schools, designed to spark schoolchildren’s interest in railway transport careers while ensuring high‑level technical preparation.
• Additionally, Russian Railways operates 26 children’s railways, featuring six Kvantorium science parks serving as hi‑tech training platforms for kids.
• We are implementing the Programme of Russian Railways’ Interaction with Railway Universities, aimed at enhancing training at higher and vocational levels, updating training infrastructure for future employees, and raising the prestige of industry education.
• Our work continues on creating on‑site training clusters as part of the Professionalitet federal project; we have established 17 clusters, including 5 in 2024.
• We support railway transport universities as part of the Innovative Engineering Schools federal project and the Priority‑2030 strategic academic leadership programme.
• We leveraged our extensive network of in‑house training centres to nurture talent, training over 230,300 individuals in 2024.
• For developing managers and high‑potential experts, we have created a corporate business training system encompassing our Corporate University, railway transport universities, and external educational organisations, with more than 315,000 people trained in 2024.
• Our distance learning system houses more than 1,700 educational materials covering various topics.

• We sustained the effective functioning of the Coordination Council tasked with improving the conditions of work, leisure, and social support of women.
• In 2024, we held the 5th Forum to Improve the Conditions of Work, Leisure, and Social Support of Russian Railways’ Female Employees, with the resulting proposals being implemented to enhance production processes, achieve corporate targets, and strengthen social policies and internal communications.
• We expanded the list of railway jobs available to women. Since 2021, women can work as train drivers and assistant train drivers, with organised training and employment processes. By end‑2024, 328 women were trained and employed in these professions (up from 79 at end‑2023).

• Between 2021 and 2024, our Clean Water programme brought drinking water quality into compliance with SanPiN requirements at 12 water supply sources, with investments of RUB 1,032 million. In 2024, we modernised the drinking water treatment system at the children’s health camp at the Petyayarvi station.
• Water usage dropped by 3% in 2024 compared to 2023.
• In 2024, we reduced discharge of wastewater on land and into surface water bodies by 7.2% compared to 2023 (beating our 3.9% target), and by 39.7% compared to 2019. This reduction was achieved through:
  • converting treatment facilities to discharge into centralised sewerage systems;
  • maintaining and repairing treatment facilities;
  • installing discharge metering units at treatment facilities;
  • reducing water supply and sewerage volumes at numerous railway facilities

• Railway electrification represents a key measure for increasing low‑carbon resource use; in 2024, we electrified 396.7 km of track.
• The Company focuses on developing gas‑, hydrogen‑, and battery‑powered locomotives as another pathway for leveraging low‑carbon energy resources and reducing harmful emissions:
  • in 2024, we completed development of the four‑axle hybrid shunter EMKA2 featuring domestic lithium‑ion batteries and an asynchronous traction drive. Two EMKA2 units currently operate at the Kazansky and Kiyevsky railway stations (undergoing performance tests);
  • we are developing rolling stock using alternative fuels – natural gas and hydrogen.
• In stationary power generation, we are moving away from fuel oil and coal boiler houses towards environmentally clean energy sources – natural gas and electricity – while using renewable energy sources like heat pumps in heating systems

• For the sixth year running, the Company ranks as a Top 3 employer in the people’s rating of Russia’s best employers compiled by VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Centre).
• The Company’s wages are 11.5% above the country’s average and the pay level across nearly all Russian regions (except for the Sakhalin Region and the Yamal‑Nenets Autonomous Area).
• In 2024, we adjusted salaries by 7.3%.
• We continued taking steps to reduce youth unemployment, with 33% of our employees under age 35 and around 7,000 graduates hired annually.
• We actively support the Russian Student Squads organisation, providing temporary employment for youth and students. In the 2024 work semester, 18,000 people worked at the Russian Railways Group’s facilities as part of railway transport student squads – an absolute record entered in the Russian record book.
• We operate under a Collective Bargaining Agreement for 2023–2025 covering all employees.
• We have corporate support programmes for certain employee groups, including young workers, retirees, those nearing retirement, and members of multigenerational railway families.
  • Russian Railways develops internal rail tourism, annually increasing the number of tourist trains and routes.
  • In 2024, the Group offered 91 tourist railway routes; tourist trains carried about 1.1 million passengers, 17% more than in 2023.

• The spending on the Russian Railways 2024 investment programme stood at RUB 1,479.0 bn. Key projects included:
  • development of railway infrastructure serving ports of the Azov and Black Seas;
  • development of railway infrastructure serving ports of the North‑Western basin;
  • development of railway infrastructure in the Eastern Operating Domain;
  • development of railway infrastructure of the Central Transport Hub;
  • implementation of the project to construct a high‑speed railway line between St Petersburg and Moscow (Kryukovo (Alabushevo) – Obukhovo section).
• The upgrade of the Eastern Operating Domain provides Baikal ‑Amur and Trans‑Siberian mainlines’ capacity increased in 2024 ‑ to 180 mt annually.
• In 2024, we achieved strong results in open innovation projects:
  • 150 unique projects were initially implemented (+8 vs last year) and 103 were replicated (+40 vs last year);
  • through our Innovation Support Programme, we implemented 37 projects worth RUB 165.4 m in 2024.
• We implemented 33 projects using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, with 7 projects launched in 2024.
• In 2024, we created new main quantum network segments; total network length reached 7,012 km.

• Our Corporate Volunteering programme held more than 17,000 campaigns and events in 2024:
  • assisting flood victims in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions;
  • participating in the Victory Volunteers nationwide public movement;
  • the 50th Anniversary of the Baikal–Amur Mainline and Ecoleaders campaigns;
  • implementing silver volunteering, where participants care for low‑income families, children, veteran railway workers, collect humanitarian aid for soldiers and refugees, and support vulnerable groups in a variety of ways.

In 2024, more than 1,000 actions involved approximately 15,000 participants.

• We allocated RUB 7.9 bn for charitable activities in 2024, including:
  • assisting residents of new territories, plus Kursk and Belgorod regions – delivering humanitarian aid, providing children’s health camp vouchers, and organising free travel;
  • providing assistance to children’s organisations, supporting people with physical disabilities and people with incurable and life‑limiting illnesses;

• Over 8 years, the Moscow Central Circle has become vital city infrastructure. More than 0.5 million people use the Circle every weekday.
• In 2024, the Central Transport Hub transported 833.7 million people (+8.0% y‑o‑y).
• We continued developing the Urban Commuter Train project, providing passengers with unified navigation and tariff systems, comfort and seamless travel. Transportation volumes on urban routes (excluding the Central Transport Hub) grew by 18% vs 2023.
• In 2024, we launched clock‑face scheduling of suburban trains on the St Petersburg – Melnichny Ruchey and St Petersburg – Sestroretsk sections.
• We increased traffic volumes in the Yuzhno‑Sakhalinsk agglomeration after building two passing loops and upgrading transport stops.
• We completed Moscow urban stations Zelenograd‑Kryukovo, Lianozovo, Belorusskaya, and Kutuzovskaya while opening the new Mitkovo station.
• Our Mobility Assistance Centre continues expanding; in 2024, a total of 457,800 passengers used assistance and support services – 17.6% more than in 2023.

• In 2024, we reduced the share of waste placed at burial disposal facilities by 5.7% compared to 2018.
• We are implementing projects for separate collection of recyclable materials, including reverse vending machines, developing electronic document flow, and improving operational processes.
• As part of reusing or recycling waste, we increased the number of reverse vending machines for plastic bottles and aluminium cans with passenger bonus systems by 14 times compared to the 2022 launch year, reaching 376 machines at 284 facilities; compared to 2023, the number of reverse vending machines increased by 1.7 times.
• In 2024, we transferred approximately 2,600 t of paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and household aluminium waste for recycling.
• Russian Railways’ structural units recycle and neutralise approximately 85% of total waste generated.

• We are implementing comprehensive measures focused on sustainable low‑carbon development and GHG emissions reduction:
  • continuing electrifying existing railway lines;
  • developing and introducing new rolling stock;
  • upgrading stationary power facilities on our balance sheet;
  • implementing energy efficiency projects through improved traffic methods, better infrastructure technology, and increased energy efficiency in buildings, structures, equipment and heat supply.
• In 2024, we registered our first climate project focused on reducing GHG emissions through improving the heat supply system of the Company’s railway facilities. We converted 5 boiler houses from fuel oil to natural gas under this project.

• We implement systematic measures to eliminate legacy pollution and remediate sites with accumulated environmental damage, allocating over RUB 1.5 bn (excluding VAT) from 2019 to 2024, the Company spent over RUB 1.38 bn on eliminating accumulated environmental damage, with a total of 31 sites remediated.
• In 2024, we completely eliminated 8 sites with accumulated environmental damage at the Perm, Sychyovka, Kudeyevsky, Nickel, Dyoma, Tver, Lyangasovo, and Pinyug stations.
• In 2024, 420,000 trees were planted on a territory the size of 107 football fields.

• During 2024, we reviewed more than 3,000 conflict of interest declarations, with more than half submitted voluntarily by employees, identifying and resolving more than 800 situations.
• In 2024, more than 73,000 employees completed general anti‑corruption training, more than 12,000 completed special courses for department heads and anti‑corruption activity staff, and we held almost 24,000 legal and anti‑corruption events.
• We earned the highest classification in the Anti‑Corruption Rating of Russian Business as a company upholding the strongest anti‑corruption standards, and received a special award for the Participation in the Anti‑Corruption Rating of Russian Business in 2024.

We prioritise sustainable development by participating in UN system organisations – the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, plus the Organisation for Cooperation between Railways, BRICS Business Council, Business 20 (B20) and others. We also coordinate bilateral interaction with foreign partners to develop sustainable development infrastructure.

Russian Railways is actively engaged in initiatives addressing environmental impact reduction, social equality, and green financing.