The municipal transit system of Saransk consists primarily of a network of bus and trolleybus lines.
Saransk
is a station on the Kuybyshev Railway, and has additional stations
serving regional railways to Ruzayevka and Krasny Uzel. Formerly,
Saransk was also served by two daily Penza�Nizhny Novgorod passenger
trains, carrying passengers from nearby villages mainly to
eitherRuzayevka junction station and Penza or to Arzamas and Nizhny
Novgorod.
The city is served by the small Saransk Airport (Russian:
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served primarily by small regional carriers; the most common aircraft is
the An-24. There are scheduled flights to and from Moscow's Domodedovo
airport on weekdays. Saransk is also home to the Lyambir airforce base