Vostochno-Sibirskaya zhelesnaja doroga

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Administration building of the East Siberian Railway in Irkutsk

The East Siberian Railway ( Russian Восточно-Сибирская железная дорога / East Siberian Railway ) is a railway operationally independent branch of the Russian Railways (RZD), emerged from the same regional office of RŽD and the former Soviet railways (szd) or of the traffic routes Ministry (MPS ) .

Operational data and organization

The East Siberian Railway, based in Irkutsk operates railway lines the track gauge of 1520 mm ( broad gauge ) with an operating length of 3915 kilometers in Eastern Siberia ( Irkutsk Oblast , Republic of Buryatia and region Trans-Baikal , and a short section in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) ).

To the west, the Krasnoyarsk Railway joins on two lines , to the east the Transbaikal Railway and the Far East Railway . The East Siberian Railway operates a railway border crossing to Mongolia in Nauschki .

In 2007 76 million tons of goods, 3.6 million passengers in long-distance and 28.6 million in suburban traffic were carried. In the same year, the railway had 51,549 employees. Anatoly Krasnoschtschok is the head of the branch.

The East Siberian Railway is divided into four subdivisions ( otdelenija ): Taischet , Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude and Severobaikalsk .

history

The East Siberian Railway was established on March 3, 1934, when the then Tomsk Railway was merged with part of the lines of the Transbaikal Railway (sections east of Lake Baikal in Buryatia). The Tomsk Railway had its origin in the Central Siberian , from 1902 Siberian Railway , whose Krasnoyarsk –Irkutsk line - part of the Trans-Siberian Railway (Transsib) - was officially put into operation on January 1, 1899 as the first line of today's East Siberian Railway.

From 1936 to 1961 and finally from 1979, the Krasnoyarsk Railway was spun off from the East Siberian Railway. In 1961 part of the routes was given to the West Siberian Railway . In 1996 the East Siberian Railway took over the western, longer part of the previously independent Baikal-Amur Mainline .

The electrification in the East Siberian Railway began in 1956 with the commissioning of the Trans-Siberian section Irkutsk- Slyudyanka with 3000  V DC . As a result, electrification continued to the west until it met in 1960 in Sima the section of the route electrified from the west from Mariinsk with alternating current of 25 kV 50  Hz . From Slyudyanka along Lake Baikal and further to the east, alternating current was also used, and in 1970 the Petrovsky Zavod station was reached, completing the electrification of the Trans-Siberian section of the East Siberian Railway. The unsatisfactory condition of an intermediate section electrified with direct current lasted until 1995 when, after lengthy preparations, the catenary on the 434 kilometers between Sima and Slyudyanka was switched to alternating current within one day.

stretch

The main routes of the East Siberian Railway are:

  • Trans-Siberian Railway (section from Jurty west of Taischet, route km 4489 (inclusive) to Petrowski Zavod, km 5784 (exclusive); double-track; electrified with alternating current 25 kV 50 Hz)
  • Baikal-Amur Mainline (western section to Chani , km 1864 (exclusive); double-track to the Lena Bridge east of Ust-Kut , km 737; electrified with alternating current 25 kV 50 Hz to Taksimo , km 1469)
  • Trans-Mongolian Railway (Russian section Ulan-Ude-Nauschki; single-track; not electrified)

The East Siberian Railway also operates the Baikal Railway, a connection originally part of the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway with an extensive route along the south-west bank of Lake Baikal.

literature

  • G. Afonina: Kratkie svedenija o razvitii otečestvennych železnych dorog s 1838 po 1990 g. MPS, Moscow 1995 ( Brief information on the development of the national railways from 1838 to 1990 ; Russian).
  • Istorija železnodorožnogo transporta Rossii. Tom 1 (1836-1917 gg.) . PGUPS, Saint Petersburg 1994, ISBN 5-85952-005-0 ( History of Russian Railways. Volume 1 (1836–1917) ; Russian).
  • Istorija železnodorožnogo transporta Rossii I Sovetskogo Sojuza. Tom 2 (1917-1945 gg.) . PGUPS, Saint Petersburg 1997, ISBN 5-85952-005-0 ( History of rail traffic in Russia and the Soviet Union. Volume 2 (1917–1945) ; Russian).
  • Železnodorožnyj transport. Ėncyklopedija . Bolʹšaja Rossijskaja Ėncyklopedija, Moscow 1995, ISBN 5-85270-115-7 ( Railway Transport : Encyclopedia ; Russian).

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