Pechora Railway

Konosha – Vorkuta
Route length:	approx. 1500 km
Gauge :	1520 mm ( Russian gauge )
Legend (second value train kilometers from Moscow) Route from Vologda 0 0706 Konosha I Route to Arkhangelsk 20 0726 Waldejewo 28 0734 742 Podjuga 68 0000 Kelarewa Gorka 775 Ust-Schonosha 104 0824 Welsk 826 Waga 845 Kuloi 888 Kostyljowo ( Oktjabrski ) 927 Ilesa 978 Kisema 1004 Arkhangelsk Oblast / Vologda Oblast border 1017 Lomowatka 56 0000 Veliky Ustyug 1034 Vologda Oblast / Arkhangelsk Oblast border 1040 Udima (Udimski) 1070 1075 Jadricha 1080 Northern Dvina Route from Kirov 1083 Kotlas- Uslooi 382 0000 Kotlas-Juschny (train kilometers from Kirov) 386 0000 Kotlas-Severny 1094 Solvychegodsk ( Wytschegodski ) 3 0000 Wytschegda 1107 Nisovka 4th 0000 Sortirovochnaja ( Korjaschma ) 1205 Urdoma 1245 Arkhangelsk Oblast / Komi Republic border 1264 Wytschegda 10 0000 Scheschart 1272 Scheschart 15th 0000 Aikino 1305 Shame 1313 Mikun Branches to Syktywkar and Koslan / Wendinga Branches from Koslan / Wendinga (planned) 1360 Wym 1365 Knjaschpogost ( Jemwa ) 1389 Tract 1426 Sindor 1484 Chinjaworyk 1539 Jarega 1557 Uchta 1568 Sosnogorsk Junction to Troitsko-Pechorsk (161 km) 1571 Ishma 1685 Irajol 1732 Kajerom 1806 Koshwa 1810 Pechora 1817 Pechora 1865 Synja Branch to Ussinsk (108 km) 1954 Koschim 1997 Inta I 10 Inta II 2094 Etc. 2096 Abes 2137 Siwaja Maska (Siwomaskinski) 2200 Tschum 2206 Arctic Circle Railway to Labytnangi 2235 Chanowei Mulda 2265 Vorkuta Worgaschor 8th Lesnaya 70 Chalmer-Ju Route planned Ust-Kara Amderma Jugorstrasse Varnek Railway line to Novaya Zemlya (planned)

The Pechora Railway ( Russian Печорская железная дорога or Печорская железнодорожная магистраль ) is a double-track main line in the north of the European part of Russia . The line is operated by the Northern Railway of the Russian Railways (RŽD) . The management is based in Sosnogorsk .

The Pechora Railway is more than 1,500 kilometers long and runs from Konoscha in a northeastern direction to the resource-rich region around Vorkuta in the polar Urals . The Konoscha – Vorkuta railway is the most important traffic axis in the Komi Republic and is primarily used for the transport of coal , oil and wood .

route

The line branches off from the Yaroslavl  - Vologda  - Arkhangelsk railway line in Konosha, a good 700 kilometers north of Moscow . From Kotlas , which had a railway connection from Kirov as early as 1899 , the Pechora Railway is a main line with several branches. The route kilometers count from Moscow. For the first 100 km to Welsk , the line actually consists of two single-track lines with separate kilometers (southern branch from Konoscha), some of which run right next to each other with shared stations, some more than 15 km apart.

At the Tschum station, about 50 kilometers from Vorkuta, the westernmost section of the Arctic Circle Railway to the Ob , which was built in 1947, branches off . Larger places along the railway besides Vorkuta are Welsk, Kotlas, Wytschegodski , Mikun , Jemwa , Uchta , Sosnogorsk, Pechora and Inta .

history

Former administration building of the independent Pechora railway in Kotlas

In the years 1937–1942 the Pechora Railway was built, which could be used as an important supply route during the Leningrad blockade in World War II . From 1937, the Wendinga - Syktywkar railway crossing in Mikun was built, which is part of the Pechora Railway system. During the construction of the route, which was extended to Vorkuta at the end of the 1940s , tens of thousands of Gulag prisoners were used as forced laborers, including from the Vorkuta labor camp .

From 1942 the line with its branches was called the North Pechora Railway (Severo-Pechorskaya schelesnaja doroga) , from 1947 only the Pechora Railway was an independent railway administration. On November 1, 1967, it was incorporated into the Northern Railway .

From 1981 two more branch lines (to Ussinsk and Troizko-Pechorsk ) were built. It is planned to close the gap in the Arkhangelsk - Syktyvkar connection by closing the gap between Karpogory and Wendinga.

Web links

• Petschora-ITL (PetschorLag) on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
• Nord-Petschora-ITL (SewPetschLag) on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.