Privolschskaya zheleznaya doroga

Atkarsk Central Railway Station

Saratov Central Station

Park Railway ("Children's Railway") in Volgograd

Priwolschskaja schelesnaja doroga ( Russian Приво́лжская желе́зная доро́га , " Volga - Railway ") is an independent regional railway management of the Russian State Railways (RŽD) based in Saratov .

General

The Volga Railway is one of the 17 regional directorates (also called branches ) of the Russian Railways. Its route network, which, as is usual in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union, is in Russian broad gauge of 1524 mm, essentially covers the oblasts on the lower Volga ( Saratov , Wolgograd and Astra Chan ) from, wherein a small part of the routes also to the regions as well Rostov and Samara and after Kazakhstan ranges. Within Russia there are direct connections to the networks of the regional directorates for Southeast , North Caucasus , Kuibyshev and South Urals .

The directorate consists of four departments, which in addition to the regional administrations Saratov , Volgograd and Astrakhan also include a park railway in Volgograd (Russian: Волгоградская детская железная дорога ).

As of 2008, the route network of the Volga Railway was 4237 kilometers long. The annual passenger volume was around 11 million in long-distance and 13.7 million in local traffic; in addition, 39.63 million tons of goods were transported in the same period.

history

The emergence of today's route network of the Volga Railway began with the commissioning of the railway from Saratov to Atkarsk in July 1871, which was financed and operated by the newly founded joint-stock company of the Ryazan-Ural Railway ( Рязано-Уральская железная дорога ). At the end of the 19th century, this railway company was already one of the largest in the Russian Empire and had routes in a total of twelve governorates in the European part of Russia, which, among other things, connected Moscow with Astrakhan.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the company was nationalized and in 1930 it was divided between the Moscow-Kursk ( Московско-Курская железная дорога ) and Moscow-Kazan ( Московско-Казанская жалезная железр . In the 1930s, the route network in the Lower Volga was expanded particularly intensively, so that the volume of traffic there at the beginning of the 1940s exceeded the corresponding figure of 1913 by four times. In the years of the Second World War , the Volga Railway was of great strategic importance for the Red Army, especially during the Battle of Stalingrad .

In 1953 the Volga Railway was formed in its current structure through a merger of the former Ryazan-Ural Railway with the Stalingrad Regional Directorate. Since 2003 the Volga Railway has had the status of a branch of the joint stock company RŽD.

Individual evidence

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Web links

Commons : Volga Railroad  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Volga Railway website (Russian)
• Route diagram with stations to download (Russian)