Yugo-Vostochnaja zheleznaja doroga

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Yugo-Vostochnaja schelesnaja doroga ( Russian Ю́го-Восто́чная желе́зная доро́га , abbr. ВЖД / JuWSchD) is the name of an independent branch of the Russian State Railways (RŽD). The Yugo-Vostochnaja schelesnaja doroga, literally "Southeast Railway", maintains a 4000 km long network in the south of the European part of Russia , between the catchment areas of the Moscow RŽD branch in the north and the North Caucasian branch in the south.

History of the Southeast Railway

Gryazi -Woroneschskije, a railway station of South Eastern Railway

In 1863, on the initiative of the Russian industrialist Pavel von Derwis and the Voronezh and Tambov Zemstva, a joint-stock company was founded to raise funds for the construction of a railway line between Ryazan and Kozlov (today's Michurinsk ). At that time there was already a railway line from Moscow to Ryazan, 200 kilometers southeast of it, otherwise the south of the Russian Empire was still largely cut off from the railway network. After the state concession for the construction was granted in 1865 , the line to Koslow was built within a relatively short period of time and was put into operation on September 4th, 1866. Construction work to extend the line to Voronezh began immediately and was completed two years later.

Other important construction work carried out by the joint-stock company, known as the Ryazan-Kozlower Railway Company, was the completion of a single-track freight line from Liski to Rasdelnaya, with which above all the coal mines of the eastern Donets Basin could be connected, as well as the railway line from Voronezh to Rostov on Don . Both routes were opened in 1871. In 1893, the Ryazan-Kozlov Railway Company officially became a joint-stock company of the Southeast Railways ; by then a number of other routes had already been built, for example from Koslow to Tambov or from Balashov to Kharkiv . In addition, several large railway workshops in the company's catchment area (including Voronezh, Rostov, Jelez and Tsaritsyn ) were put into operation.

After the October Revolution , the Southeast Railway Company was nationalized, but retained its independent railway status and its administrative headquarters in Voronezh. Until 1992 it was one of the branches of the State Railways of the USSR . In the second half of the 20th century, a large part of the route network of the Southeast Railway was electrified.

Today's operation

Headquarters of the JuWSchD in Voronezh with the characteristic clock tower, a landmark of the city

As of 2008, the Yugo-Vostochnaja zhelesnaja doroga operates a total of 4189.1 km of railway network, which extends to the following Russian oblasts :

The administrative headquarters of the railway is in Voronezh, there are also five regional departments of Belgorod , Jelez , Liski , Michurinsk and Rtishchevo . In 2008 a total of 217.6 million tons of goods were transported. In the same year, the Südost-Eisenbahn carried 28.4 million passengers in long-distance traffic and 28.2 million in local traffic. The number of employees in the branch, including the railway companies below, was around 47,100.

Individual evidence

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