Maltańska Kolej Dziecięca (Maltan Children's Railway) in Poznań, Poland (600mm gauge)

Steam Locomotive on Kyiv Children's Railway, Ukraine (750mm gauge)

A children's railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where teenagers learn railway professions. This phenomena originated in the USSR and was greatly developed in Soviet times. The world's first children's railway was opened in 1932 Moscow, in Gorky Park^[1]. At the breakup of the USSR, 52 children railways existed in the country. PoznaÅ„ (?· i; full official name: The Capital City of PoznaÅ„, Latin: , German: , Yiddish: פּױזן Poyzn) is a city in west-central Poland with over 578,900 inhabitants (2002). ... Kiev (Київ, Kyiv, in Ukrainian; Киев, Kiev, in Russian) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Gorky Park (Moscow) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Many children's railways are still functioning in post-Soviet states and Eastern European countries. Examples include a children's railway in Minsk, one in Yaroslavl and many other cities. A public building in Yaroslavl Yaroslavl (Russian: ) is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, located 250 km north-east of Moscow at . ...

List of children's railways

There are children's railways situated in following cities:

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References

1. ^ Children's railways: Gorky Park, Moscow (Russian)

External links

• Children's railways of the USSR (Russian)
• railways.id.ru (English)