“The audit showed that, on average, the maintenance of 1 km of the federal road network in 2019 accounted for 2.2 million rubles. While the maintenance of regional roads is almost 8 times less - 288 thousand rubles per 1 km, ”the message says.

It is noted that about 30% "of the normative need" was allocated to regional and intermunicipal roads.

“This situation has a negative impact on the transport and operational state of the regional road network,” said Valery Bogomolov, auditor of the Accounts Chamber.

Earlier, Rosstat named the regions with the greatest length of highways.