Major railways, pipelines and highways cross the territory of the republic linking the European part of the Russian Federation with the Urals and Siberia.
The transport system of the Bashkortostan Republic provides for not only domestic transportations of mass economic freights, but also huge transit freight and passengers flows in the "West-East" direction, connecting the republic with major centers of Russia and the CIS.
There is an international airport in Ufa.
Rivers of the republic that are more than 600 in number are a component part of a unified deep-water transport system of the European part of Russia providing the Bashkortostan Republic with access to the ports of the Baltic, Black and Azov sea basins.