Russian Railways electric locomotive VL10 Russian Railways (Russian: Российские железные дороги), is the state-owned railway company of Russia.
It is one of the biggest railway companies in the world with 85,500 km of track and 1.2 million employees. Almost 1.3 billion passengers travel via Russian Railways annually as well as 1.3 billion tons of freight. Russian Railways accounts for over 3.6 % of Russia’s GDP and handles almost 80% of all transportation in Russia.
Early history In the early 1830s Russian inventors father and son Cherepanov built the first Russian steam locomotives. The first railroad track was built in Russia in 1837 between Saint-Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo. The Department of Railways, later part of the Russian Ministry of Communications, was created in the Russian Empire in 1842 in order to oversee the construction of Russia’s first major railway line. The railway linked the imperial capital Saint-Petersburg and Moscow and was built between 1842 and 1851. Cherepanovs, Yefim Alekseyevich (1774-1842) and Miron Yefimovich (1803-1849), Russian inventors and industrial engineers, father and son. ...
A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ...
| Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Location Position of Saint Petersburg in Europe Government Russia District Subdivision Russia North West Russia Federal City Governor Valentina Matvienko Geographical characteristics Area - City 1,439 km² Population - City (2005) - Density 4,661,219 (2002 Census) 3330/km² Coordinates Elevation 3 m Time zone - Summer (DST) MSK (UTC+3) MSD...
Catherine Palace and Park Tsarskoye Selo (Russian: ; may be translated as Tsar’s Village) is a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility 24 km south of St. ...
Official language Russian Official Religion Russian Orthodox Christianity Capital Saint Petersburg (Petrograd 1914-1925) Area Approx. ...
1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area - City 1,081 km² Population - City (2005) - Density 10,415,400 8537. ...
1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
In the 1860s and 70s Pavel Melnikov, Russia’s first Minister of Communications, played a key role in the expansion of the railway network throughout European Russia.
The Trans-Siberian Railway connecting Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan was built between 1891 and 1916. Trans-Siberian line in red; Baikal Amur Mainline in green. ...
Far Eastern Federal District (highlighted in red) Russian Far East (Russian: ДÌальний ВоÑÑ‚Ìок РоÑÑÌии; English transliteration: Dalny Vostok Rossii) is an informal term that refers to the Russian part of the Far East, i. ...
The Sea of Japan (East Sea) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. ...
1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
 The marker for kilometre 9288, at the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway line in Vladivostok During the First World War and the Russian Civil War more than 60% of the Russian railway network and more than 80% of the carriages and locomotives were destroyed. Download high resolution version (1464x1995, 724 KB)Kilomer 9288 of the Trans-Siberian Railway File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Download high resolution version (1464x1995, 724 KB)Kilomer 9288 of the Trans-Siberian Railway File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
City and harbor of Vladivostok with the Statue to the fighters for Soviet power in the Far East (bottom right) Vladivostok (Russian: ) is the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated close to the Russo-Chinese border and North Korea. ...
A German trench in the swamp area near the Mazuric Lakes on the Eastern Front. ...
Combatants Red Army (Bolsheviks) German Empire? White Army (Monarchists, SRs, Anti-Communists) Commanders Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Semyon Budyonny Lavr Kornilov, Alexander Kolchak, Anton Denikin, Pyotr Wrangel The Russian Civil War was fought from 1917 to 1922. ...
Soviet period In the Soviet period People's Commissariat of Communications expanded railway network to a total length of 106,100 km by 1940. During the Great Patriotic War the railway system played a vital role in the war effort transporting military personnel, equipment and freight to the frontlines and often evacuating entire factories and towns from European Russia to the Ural region and Siberia. After the war the Soviet railway network was re-built and further expanded to more than 145,000 km of track by major additions such as Baikal Amur Mainline. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union its railway system broke up into national railway systems of various former Soviet republics. Motto: Пролетарии вÑех Ñтран, ÑоединÑйтеÑÑŒ! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem(s): The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital Moscow Largest city Moscow Official language(s) None; Russian de facto Government Federation of Soviet Republics - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev - Last Premier Ivan Silayev...
From 1919 to 1946, functions of ministers in the government of Russia and, later, the Soviet Union were performed by Peoples Commissars (Russian title: Narodny Komissar, or Narkom). ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
The Eastern Front1 was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ...
Ural (Russian: ) is a geographical region in Russia, around Ural Mountains. ...
Siberian Federal District (dark red) and the broadest definition of Siberia (red) Siberia (Russian: , Sibir’; Tatar: Seber) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of Northern Asia. ...
Baikal-Amur Magistral in green; Trans-Siberian line in red The Baikal-Amur Mainline (Russian Байкало-ÐмурÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÐœÐ°Ð³Ð¸Ñтраль, Baikalo-Amurskaya Magistral, BAM) is a railway line in Russia. ...
The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ...
Today In 2003 Russian Railways was established as a Public Corporation with the state as the only shareholder of the company. The current CEO of the company is Vladimir Yakunin. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A public benefit corporation is usually a government-owned corporation that performs a specific, narrow function for the public good. ...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...
See also Elektrichka departing from station platform Elektrichka on Yaroslavskiy Rail Terminal, Moscow Elektrichka (Russian: , Ukrainian: is a slang word for elektropoezd (Russian: ), a Soviet or post-Soviet regional (mostly suburban) electrical multiple unit passenger train. ...
The telecommunications system has undergone significant changes in the 1990s resulting in more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services today. ...
References - Russian Railways Official Site
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