Prydniprovska Salisnytsja

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Prydniprovska Salisnytsja
legal form
founding 1961
Seat Dnipro , UkraineUkraineUkraine 
management Mykola Kushavskyi
Branch Railway company
Website www.dp.uz.gov.ua

The Prydniprowska Salisnyzja (Ukrainian Придніпровська залізниця ; German about "Dnepr Railway") is a regional operator of railway traffic in the southeastern Ukraine with its headquarters in Dnipro . It belongs to the Ukrainian railway company Ukrzalisnyzja .

business

The railway company operates the route networks in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia oblasts, and until 2014 also the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and parts of 5 other surrounding oblasts (Kherson Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Kirowohrad Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast and Donetsk Oblast).

The railway company operates a total route length of 3250 kilometers, of which around 58 percent are electrified, the rail traffic on 244 railway stations.

history

Regional Railway Companies of Ukraine as of 2014

The company's history begins with the opening of the first line of the Katharinenbahn (Катерининська залізниця / Katerynynska salisnyzja) in 1873 from Synelnykowe to Katerynoslaw (now Dnipro) and Losowa to Oleksandriwsk (now Zaporizhia). Parts of the Russian Southern Railways are also part of today's route network. In the course of time, the railway network developed significantly, in 1936 the company was finally renamed the Stalin Railway (Сталінська залізниця / Stalinska salisnyzja), in 1961 the railway company with its current name was called. In 2014, in the course of the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the railway administrations were split up and rail traffic to Crimea was restricted.

Directorates

  • 1 - Dnipro Railway Directorate
  • 2 - Zaporizhia Railway Directorate
  • 3 - Kryvyi Rih Railway Directorate
  • 4 - Crimea Railway Directorate (based in Simferopol . In 2014, the Crimea, annexed by Russia, had its own administration)

Railway lines

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