Yaroslavl is a large transport center located at the intersection of the most important transport routes. Transport infrastructure of the city includes two railway stations, three bus stations, a river port, two railway and six automobile bridges. Distance from Yaroslavl to Moscow is 282 kilometers, to Saint-Petersburg is 850 kilometers.
Automobile Transport
The city is located on the federal road M8 “Moscow-Kholmogory”, which unites north regions with the center of the country. In 2006 the second automobile bridge across Volga was put into operation; it has a strategic significance and acts as an intersection of transportation corridors North-South, East-West. Yaroslavl has transport connections with all cities of the Yaroslavl Region and nearby regions (Ivanovo, Tver, Vologda, etc.). The length of public automobile roads (streets, passages, embankments) of local significance is 758 kilometers.

Railway Transport
The North railway branch line of the Trans-Siberian Railway passes through Yaroslavl. Yaroslavl has the through railway service with Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Archangelsk, Vorkuta, Nizhny Novgorod, cities of Ural, Siberia and Far East. The city has two railway stations. The Direction of the North Railway (branch of the OJSC “Russian Railways”) and large service enterprises – OJSC “Yaroslavl Car Repair Plant “Remputmash”, Yaroslavl Electric Locomotive Repair Plant named after B.P. Beshchev (branch of OJSC “Zheldorremmash” – are situated in Yaroslavl.Water Transport
United deep-water network of the European part of Russia makes it possible to forward goods to the regions of Baltic, White, Caspian, Azov, Black and Mediterranean seas. The river Volga and its system of canals make it possible to deliver goods without transshipment to Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Archangelsk, Astrakhan, Rostov-on-Don, Perm. Due to climatic conditions navigation is possible from May to October.The river port is located in Yaroslavl on both banks of the Volga 522 kilometers from Moscow. The port accepts for processing different kinds of export and import goods. Annual port capacity is 3,5 million tons. Use of modern technologies provides cargo safety conditions and reduction of processing time. The port has the towing fleet with a capacity of 300-1340 h.p., non-propelling barges, floating crane with a lifting capacity of 5-16 tons, passenger fast fleet and displacement-type fleet. The port has a repair depot, workshops, a complex for drying and reprocessing of timber, a passenger service complex.

Air Transport
The airport is connected with Norilsk, Mirny, Bratsk, Khatanga, Vladivostok, Anadyr, Pevek, Keperveem, Kogalym, Yakutsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara and other cities by charter routes.
International freight traffic from neighboring countries and beyond, from CIS countries is carried out. Currently a large reconstruction project is being carried out in the airport. From December 2017 function an additional route to Saint Petersburg; now there are 3 routes per week. From March 2018 regular passenger flights function to Sympheropol; there are plans to begin flights to Sochi, Anapa, Antalia and Kaliningrad.
Currently the airport administration work on enlarging the arrival lounge of the airport and arrange a border inspection post.
Pipeline Transport
Public Transport
Passenger transportation in Yaroslavl is carried out by automobile (buses), ground electric (trolleybuses and trams) and internal water passenger transport. Regular passenger traffic in the city with use of regulated tariffs includes 91 municipal routes. Among them there are 78 bus routes, 6 trolleybus routes, 5 tram routes and 2 inner-city water routes in Yaroslavl. 43 companies and individual entrepreneurs are engaged in regular traffic. There are also 31 regular routes with unregulated tariffs. The total length of bus, trolleybus, tram routes is 1 696,25 kilometers. 850 vehicles of all kinds of passenger transport come out to the streets daily during morning rush hour.