Due to the fault of drunk drivers, 13,800 accidents happened on Russian roads in 2020 (the results of this year have not been announced yet) and 3,600 people died in them. And even though the overall death rate on the roads is decreasing, it is drunk drivers who cause concern in the government – almost
Many taxi drivers in Kazan get along well with each other. Thus, 43 per cent of respondents consider other motorists to be colleagues and the other 21 per cent even call them friends. As stated by the analysts, regardless of the taxi company or aggregator with which people cooperate, 80 per cent of drivers communicate
In Russia, the service of providing cars by subscription is gaining more and more popularity. Over the two years of the pandemic, the number of operators has grown significantly but not all drivers are still familiar with this service, which follows from the results of a survey conducted by the Romir research holding. Six
The specialists of the Rabota.ru job search service, together with the experts of the Citymobil taxi service, conducted a study and made a portrait of the average taxi driver. The study was conducted from January 2020 to February 2021 among about 150 thousand vacancies and 100 thousand CVs and a total of 14,415 people took
Specialists of the AUTOSTAT agency and Auto Mail.ru portal conducted an online survey of more than 13 thousand respondents in the autumn of 2020, following which they found out what Russian drivers use as an alternative transport to a personal car. According to the results of the study, 37% of respondents use public transport, 30%
In Omsk, the search has started for drivers who are ready to help doctors and drive them to patients’ homes. Such an action was launched by the All-Russian People’s Front and gave it the name “autovolunteering”, om1 reports. It is noted that everyone who is ready to help doctors is promised to get a
On the Sverdlovsk railway, for the first time in its history, girls received a certificate of the assistant driver. Until 2020, they could not study for such a profession, because it was not available for women. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation made changes to the document and created for
On Sunday, October 25, Russia will celebrate Motorist Day which is met with an excellent performance by employees of the motor transport department of Omsk Water Utilities. Over the past 5 years, the vehicle fleet of the enterprise has been renewed by more than 50 per cent and now there are 240 vehicles. It is
The drivers from the Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, and Chelyabinsk regions arranged car races for the first time since the start of the pandemic, e1.ru reported. The organizer of the race, Yana Krupyanko, said that 45 drivers from the Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, and Chelyabinsk regions competed for the title of the fastest one. The drivers competed in
The Moscow College of Rail and Urban Transport first released a girl locomotive driver. Previously, only men could study for this profession, TASS reports. Sofia Dorofeeva became a graduate and received an honours degree. During her studies in college, the girl, together with her classmates, trained their skills on simulators, disassembled and assembled the automatic
In honour of the Military Motorist’s Day, exercises were held at the racetracks of almost all the training centres in Russia. In the Chelyabinsk region, the crews of multi-ton mobile workshops based on the Ural all-terrain vehicle demonstrated accident-free driving: high-speed maneuvering, ramp driving, and fording, chelTV reports. It is noted that every year, over
The number of road traffic accidents and Russians affected by them decreased in April 2020 by 40 per cent due to restrictive measures introduced against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, RIA News reports. According to the Deputy Head of the State Traffic Inspectorate, Oleg Ponaryin, the death toll was reduced by 23 per cent.
The pavilion of the Moscow Central Diameters (WDC) will hold an online meeting with the only female electric train driver in Russia. The meeting will be held on May 14 at 6 pm on the official Instagram-Page of the WDC. The driver, Elena Lysenko-Saltykova, will tell why she chose the profession of a machinist, share
