Karachika Aerodrome. The Levtsovo Air Base is
primarily used to cater for cargo-type aircraft and helicopters and is
in general rarely used for passenger flights. The Yaroslavl Air Club
(one of Russia's oldest air clubs and the place from which Valentina
Tereshkova first began to attend flight training) is based at Karachika
aerodrome.
Water transport
Yaroslavl River Port (1985) � and example of late Soviet modernism
Yaroslavl
River Port has an annual import average of around 3.5 million tonnes of
freight a year. Climatic conditions allow the port to be used for six
months of the year, from May to later October. The river port caters not
only for larger river cruise ships which stop off in the city as part
of their journey up/down the Volga, but also to a number of regular
services which link Yaroslavl with Brejtovo, Tolga, Konstantinovo,
Bakarevo, and Novye Chentsy.
Urban transport
A modernised tram in service in Yaroslavl
The
city has a well-developed network of public transportation, including
buses, trolley-buses and tram lines. Below there is a table showing how
many people used different types of transport in a number of given years
(millions of people):
2007 2008 2009
Municipal and private bus services 65.4 64.9 74.5
Trams 24.6 19.7 16.3
Trolleybuses 43.5 35.7 30.4
Bus
transport is by far the most popular means of urban transportation used
by the residents of Yaroslavl. In fact every day, over 600 different
routes are run by a large consortium of both small and large buses and
private taxis.
The Yaroslavl tram system is one of the oldest in
Russia and has been in existence since 1900. In 2011, this system
