Sverdlovskaya zheleznaya doroga

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Administration building (built in 1928 in neoclassical style ) of the Sverdlovsk Railway in Yekaterinburg
The building of the Sverdlovsk Railway Transport Control Center

The Sverdlovskaya schelesnaja doroga ( Russian Свердло́вская желе́зная доро́га , in German "Sverdlovsk Railway") is an independent branch or regional directorate of the Russian State Railways (RŽD). The branch is named after the city of Yekaterinburg , which was called Sverdlovsk from 1924 to 1991 and where the administrative headquarters of the management are located.

General

The Sverdlovsk Railway operates a total of 9306 kilometers long rail network, the catchment area of ​​which extends over several subjects of Russia in the area of ​​the northern and central Ural Mountains . In particular, the entire railway network of the Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts (including the two autonomous districts of the Khanty and Mansi and the Yamal-Nenets ) as well as the Perm region is administered; individual sections of the Sverdlovsk Railway also extend to the Republic of Udmurtia and the Omsk Oblast . In the west, the Sverdlovsk route network connects to the same of the Gorkier Regional Directorate , in the south to the South Urals and in the east to the West Siberian Railway . In the north, the Sverdlovsk network partially extends beyond the Arctic Circle , such as the completed section of the Arctic Circle Railway to Novy Urengoy .

The Sverdlovsk Directorate is divided into five regional departments ( Sverdlovsk , Perm , Tyumen , Nizhny Tagil and Surgut ). In 2008, the management's railways carried 11.66 million long-distance passengers and 41.88 million local traffic. A total of 133.3 million tons were transported in the freight transport. The number of employees in the management was almost 70,000. The infrastructure of the rail network includes a total of 47 main train stations and 418 train stations and stops.

history

The old station building in Yekaterinburg now houses the Sverdlovsk Directorate's Railway Museum

The first plans for the construction of a railway connection in the Russian Ural region were made in the 1860s, when the region was already heavily industrialized (thanks in part to the Demidov iron foundries). The final project of the first line was completed in 1872, and after several years of preparation and construction, the approximately 700 km long Perm - Nizhny Tagil - Yekaterinburg line was finally put into operation on October 14, 1878. Further important expansions followed in 1885 with the completion of the Yekaterinburg - Tyumen line, in 1896 with the Yekaterinburg - Chelyabinsk line and in 1913 with the Tyumen - Omsk line .

On January 1, 1900, the Perm-Tjunsen Railway and Perm-Kotlasser Railway merged to form the Perm Railway . After the October Revolution of 1917, all railways of the former Russian Empire were nationalized, and the other existing networks of the North and West Urals were incorporated into the Perm Railway network. The total length of the route network in 1920 was almost 4000 km. From 1939 to 1953, the current catchment area of ​​the Sverdlovsk Railway consisted of the Perm Railway with the administrative seat of Perm and the Kaganovich Railway (since 1943 Sverdlovsk Railway) with the administrative seat of Sverdlovsk. In 1953 these two directorates were merged to form the Sverdlovsk Railway, which was a regional department of the Soviet State Railways until 1992 .

During the industrialization of the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s, many industrially used branches were created in today's Sverdlovsk network, which mainly connect large companies to the railway network. These smaller freight routes are still characteristic of the network today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All statistical data here and in the following from the official RŽD website ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / branch.rzd.ru
  2. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes of March 17, 1900. Volume 4, No. 13. Announcement No. 108, p. 91.

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