Kuibyshevskaya zheleznaya doroga

Administration building of the head office in Samara

Samara Central Station, built in 2001, is the tallest station building in Europe

The Kuibyschewskaja schelesnaja doroga ( Russian Ку́йбышевская желе́зная доро́га , in German "Kuibyshev Railway") is an independent branch of the Russian State Railways (RŽD). It is named after the city of Samara , which was called Kuibyshev from 1935 to 1990. The branch administration is located there.

General data

The Kuibyshev Railway operates a total of around 11,300 kilometers of rail network in Russia. The following federal subjects of Russia belong to the catchment area of ​​the branch :

• Samara Oblast (for the most part; in the south and south-east connection to the networks of the Volga and South Urals railways )
• Ulyanovsk Oblast (full coverage; connection to the Gorkier Railway network in the north )
• Penza Oblast (largely; in the south connection to the network of the Southeast Railway )
• Republic of Mordovia (for the most part; in the northeast connection to the network of the Gorkier Railway)
• Orenburg Oblast (partially; in the southeast connection to the network of the Southern Urals Railway)
• Republic of Bashkortostan (full coverage; in the southeast connection to the network of the Southern Urals Railway)
• Chelyabinsk Oblast (partially; in the east connection to the network of the Southern Urals Railway)
• Republic of Tatarstan (partially; in the north-east connection to the network of the Gorkier Railway)
• Republic of Mordovia (for the most part; in the northeast connection to the network of the Gorkier Railway, in the west to the network of the Moscow Railway )
• Tambov Oblast (partially)
• Ryazan Oblast (partially; in the southwest connection to the Moscow Railway network)

The directorate itself is divided into five regional departments (Bashkortostan ( Ufa site ), Nizhnekamsk , Pensa , Samara and Ulyanovsk ) and also has a representative in Tatarstan ( Naberezhnye Chelny site ) and a park railway in Ufa , 3 million passengers in long-distance and 28.8 million in local transport, furthermore 66.6 million tons of goods transported. The total number of employees in the management and subordinate companies was around 52,000.

history

The first railway line from today's rail network of the Kuibyshev Railway was put into operation in October 1874 with the approximately 500 km long Morshansk - Syzran line . When the line was extended to the east in 1880, the Syzran railway bridge was built over the Volga near Samara , the connection to Ufa was completed in 1888 and to Chelyabinsk in 1892 . The state operating company of the network was called Samara-Slatouster Railway from 1890 . By 1919, when the rail network of the western Urals was also assigned to the company, a number of other routes were built, including between Syzran and Simbirsk and there another Volga bridge.

In 1936 the management was renamed the Kuibyshev Railway. The routes leading across the Volga played an important role in the transport of goods in the course of the evacuation of large companies from the European part of the Soviet Union to the Urals and Siberia during World War II .

From 1943, the most important lines of the network were gradually electrified. In 1971 the Kuibyshev Railway was awarded the Order of Lenin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kultura-portal.ru ( Memento from April 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ All statistical data (as of 2008) from the official website of the RŽD ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Kuibyshevskaya zhelesnaja doroga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Kuibyshev Railway (Russian)
• Route diagram with stations to download (Russian)