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Not sure how relevant it is, but Russia is self-referred as "one seventh of dry land" (одна седьмая часть суши). Used to be "one sixth"(?) at the time of USSR. Wolfram Alpha says the real ratio is clo …

In Saint Petersburg's Moscow Railway Station, platforms are numbered 1, 2, 3... whereas tracks are numbered 1R 1L (right, left), 2R 2L, etc, etc. So your Sapsan train will be on track 7R. Other statio …

Arkhangelsk has two airports: Talagi, which serves Moscow & St. Petersburg, etc, and Vas'kovo, which serves towns and villages within the region. It also does helicopters. As with already existing ans …

There is now a direct train 041/042 from [Veliky] Novgorod to [Nizhny] Novgorod and back. And nobody is very happy about it since it messed up former city residents' arrival time to Moscow.

Going domestic here. Perm-Kazan leaves at 22:45 and arrives at 21:55 same day. 1h10 flight time (in reality less than hour spent in the air) 2 hours difference 1.7 ratio.

You can also go forward in time with good results, see Almaty to Urumqi: 45 minutes flight which propels you 3:45 forward for a ratio of 5! Maybe there is some trickery with flight time since the …

I'm going to nominate Anadyr airport in Russia's far North-East. Now, it's only 10 km from the town, but it is on a different side of the bay and there are no roads between airport and the town it se …

Today I also learned that Syktyvkar (pop. approx. 240k people) airport is located practically downtown of this northern city, within 1km of its central square, counting from terminal building. And …

Vas'kovo airport of Arkhangelsk has scheduled helicopter flights to Shoina at a total distance of ~420 km: The last column is price (С for plane, В for helicopter). I assume same route can be flow …

Also consider Hofbräuhaus at Munich, which is awfully huge with around 4000 customers capacity and also very historically important and visible.

There's a station Karskaya, on Gazprom private railway I assume, which is further 400 km away from Labytnangi: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=70.3164&mlon=68.3899#map=12/70.3164/68.3899 Which ma …

There is also an interesting case of Khasan-Pyongyang. Russia has no direct road connection to North Korea but it has rail link via common border, and it has passenger traffic on it, I think you can …

Arkhangelsk Vas'kovo airport airport has several destinations where there's one flight in two weeks, making it 1/7 of flights per day, counting in and out: Link to schedule I think this is typical …

Of non-trivial examples, consider Tehran Mehrabad THR. I expect it actually has international terminals to be used during Hajj, but not year round. Wikipedia lists around 17M pax/yr.

Another interesting case is Simferopol SIP (and Ercan ECN by the same principle). Due to the lack of international recognition of Crimea as part of Russia it can only logically offer routes to Russia …