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Branch of Russian Railways Gorky Railway

Company

Content

Number of employees
2015 year
1000

Owners

+ Government of the Russian Federation

Rail transportation on the territory of the six republics of the Russian Federation:

and nine areas:

  • Moscow,
  • Vladimirskaya,
  • Vologda,
  • Yekaterinburg,
  • Kirovskaya,
  • Nizhny Novgorod,
  • Perm,
  • Ryazan and
  • Ulyanovskaya.

205 administrative-territorial regions, where more than 14 million people live, use the services of the railway. The Gorky Road includes 399 stations, including six large sorting stations. For maintenance, repair of equipment and equipment, 12 locomotive and 16 car depots are involved. The total length of the road is about 5,350 km. Number of employees: more than 83,000.

History

1912

Moskovsko​-Kazan railway. Moscow-Arzamas. Winter temporary refueling of steam locomotives with water from the ​Pekhorki​ River, photographer: Nikolai Aleksandrovich ​Demchinsky​, Moscow province, Moscow district, ​Vykhinskaya​ volost, near the Tomilino​ station, 1912.

1911: Laying a railway bridge across the Volga

Moscow-Kazan Railway. Construction of the Romanovsky bridge across the Volga near the Sviyazhsk railway station, Kazan province, Kazan district, Ilyinsky volost, village (village) Zeleny Dol (Gar) (now Zelenodolsk), 1911-1913

Once upon a time, traveling by rail from Moscow to Kazan was a real adventure. Passengers arriving in Sviyazhsk were forced to leave the train and continue on horse-drawn routes to the Volga crossing. There they were waiting for a ferry that transported them across the river, after which they could take another train and complete the journey to Kazan. Freight cars were transported in winter on ice, and in summer on special ferries.

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov house, it was decided to build a railway bridge across the Volga. In 1911, the project was approved, the author of which was the famous engineer Nikolai Apollonovich Belelyubsky. In February of the same year, a solemn laying of the bridge took place.

1903

Station of the Romodanov railway. Railway tracks, photographer: Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev, Nizhny Novgorod province, Nizhny Novgorod, early 1900s