List Of Railways In Russia

picture info	List Of Railways In Russia {{Refimprove, date=September 2014 This is a Rail transport in Russia, list of railway lines in Russia. Main lines and their divisions Russian Railways is by far the largest railway company. It owns many of the other railways. East Siberian Railway Irkutsk Railway Division Severobaykalsk Railway Division Tayshet Railway Division Ulan-Ude Railway Division Far Eastern Railway Khabarovsk Railway Division Komsomolsk Railway Division Sakhalin Railway, Sakhalin Railway Division Tynda Railway Division *Vladivostok Railway Division Gorky Railway Gorky Railway Division Izhevsk Railway Division Kazan Railway Division Kirov Railway Division *Murom Railway Division Kaliningrad Railway Krasnoyarsk Railway Abakan Railway Division Krasnoyarsk Railway Division Kuybyshev Railway Bashkir Railway Division Penza Railway Division Samara Railway Division Ulyanovsk Railway Division Moscow Railway Bryansk Railway Division Moscow-Kursk Railway Division Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rail Transport In Russia Rail transport in Russia runs on one of the biggest railway networks in the world. Russian railways are the third longest by length and third by volume of freight hauled, after the railways of the United States and China. In overall density of operations (freight ton-kilometers + passenger-kilometers)/length of track, Russia is second only to China. Rail transport in Russia has been described as one of the economic wonders of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. JSC Russian Railways has a near-monopoly on long-distance train travel in Russia, with a 98.6% market share in 2017. Independent long-distance carriers include Grand Service Express TC, Tverskoy Express, TransClassService, Sakhalin Passenger Company, Kuzbass Suburb, and Yakutian Railway. Characteristics Russia is a large country, covering parts of Europe and Asia. In terms of total land area, it is larger than both the United States and China. Therefore its rail density (rail tracking/country area) is lower compared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Kazan Railway Division Kazan; , IPA: ɑzan} is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1.3 million residents, and up to nearly 2 million residents in the greater metropolitan area. Kazan is the fifth-largest city in Russia, being the most populous city on the Volga, as well as within the Volga Federal District. Historically, Kazan was the capital of the Khanate of Kazan, and was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century, at which point the city became a part of the Tsardom of Russia. The city was seized (and largely destroyed) during Pugachev's Rebellion (1773–1775), but was later rebuilt during the reign of Catherine the Great. In the following centuries, Kazan grew to become a major industrial, cultural and religious centre of Russia. In 1920, after the Russian SFSR became a part of the Soviet Union, Kazan became the capital of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bryansk Railway Division Bryansk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Desna (river), Desna River, southwest of Moscow. It has a population of 379,152 at the 2021 census. Bryansk is one of the oldest cities in the oblast, with 985 regarded as the year of foundation. It was part of the Kievan Rus', Mongol Empire and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Lithuania during the Middle Ages, medieval period, then was contested by Grand Duchy of Moscow, Moscow and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Poland–Lithuania in the early modern period, before ultimately passing to Russia, within which it was a major regional trading center. History Medieval period Based on excavations at the end of the 20th century, information was found on the birth of the city in the 10th century on the Chashin Kurgan. For ease of perception, the conventional date of birth was chosen as 985 AD. The first written mention of Bryansk, as Debryansk, dates t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]