Since the beginning of this year, 499 units of equipment have been delivered to the Volga Federal District: 412 buses, 77 trams and 10 trolleybuses. This was stated by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, according to the Cabinet's website.
The largest number of cars arrived in the Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod and Saratov regions, as well as Udmurtia and Chuvashia.
Among the programs that are used to purchase new public transport are direct subsidies from the federal budget and subsidizing preferential leasing of JSC "GTLK" through the Ministry of Transport, leasing of wheeled vehicles through GTLK under the program of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the mechanism of infrastructure loans of the Ministry of Construction, operated by the Territorial Development Fund, as well as the cancellation of two thirds of the debt on budget loans. through the Ministry of Finance.
