Transport Worker Day in Russia

Millions of people across Russia every day go to work and get into private cars, buses, minibuses, and metro cars Crowds, traffic jams and hundreds of other passengers who are also in a hurry to start a new day - this is what a typical weekday morning looks like in both a metropolis and a small town Each of us has our own usual route that we follow every day One way or another, the life of a modern person is inextricably linked with roads We travel by train and train, and sometimes we fly on planes or sail on ferries Transport systems are arteries and veins through which all cells of a large organism communicate, be it a city, a region or an entire country We may not notice the work of the people who ensure the smooth operation of this infrastructure, but we reap its benefits every day November 20 is celebrated as Transport Worker's Day in Russia The date of the holiday was not chosen by chance This day became memorable, since it was on November 20, by decree of Alexander I, that the first centralized transport department was created and a huge step was taken towards the development of this system The professional holiday of transport workers was established much later, but the choice of this particular date became an elegant nod that takes us back to our roots The transport system gradually expanded First there were trains, then cars and planes New roads were actively laid For example, BAM has become a real construction site of the century If previously it took months for a person to get from one end of our country to the other, today you can fly from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok in just 12 hours with one transfer Today we have more than four hundred industrial and non-productive industries The work of each of them is directly related to transport systems Cut just one such thread and logistics will face a number of complex and sometimes completely insoluble problems In modern Russia, more than 4 million people are employed in the transport sector And this entire “circulatory” system of a huge state functions only thanks to their coordinated work On November 20, we should congratulate all road workers, metro employees, sailors and pilots, and railway workers on their professional holiday In many institutions, evenings and meetings are held on this day, at which the best workers and labor veterans receive congratulations in a solemn atmosphere