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Odesa Railway
Odesa Railways is a rail operator in Ukraine. It is a territorial branch company of Ukrainian Railways. Main information It lies on the territory of six Oblasts of Ukraine: Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia. Odesa railways account for about 20% of freight and more than 16% of passenger traffic of Railways of Ukraine. In the region of Odesa Railways there are large sea and river ports, which ensure high traffic load. History Russian Empire to the Soviet Union The first section of the Odesa railways (length 222,52 miles) from Odesa to Birsoy with a branch from Rozdilna to Kuchurhan and with a branch to the quarantine wharf entered into force on 3 December 1865. For the next 13 years, the Odesa railways existed as an independent mechanism, and then became part of the joint stock company Southwestern Railways. First Odesa railway station was near the Alexis area. Sergei Witte and Odesa entrepreneurs have shown interest in the organization of freight tr ...
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Odesa Railway Station
Odesa, also spelled Odessa, is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021, Odesa's population was approximately On 25 January 2023, its Historic Centre of Odesa, historic city centre was declared a World Heritage Site and added to the List of World Heritage in Danger by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in recognition of its multiculturality and 19th-century urban planning. The declaration was made in response to the Odesa strikes (2022–present), bombing of Odesa during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has damaged or destroyed buildings across the city. In classical antiquity a large Greek settlement existed at its location no later than t ...
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Rozdilna
Rozdilna (, , , ''Razdelnaya'') is a small city in Odesa Oblast, southern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Rozdilna Raion, and was founded in 1863. Rozdilna hosts the administration of Rozdilna urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 17,227 (2024 estimate). History Rozdilna station.jpeg, Rozdilna train station Razdelnaya station. House of machinist.jpg, The Machinist's House Razdelnaya station. Church.jpg, St. Nicholas' church Geography Climate Demographics According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, Rozdilna counted 17,615 inahbitants. Accounting for over 80% of the population, ethnic Ukrainians constitute a large majority in the settlement. Notable minorities are Russians, Moldovans, Bulgarians and Belarusians Belarusians ( ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Belarus. They natively speak Belarusian language, Belarusian, an East Slavic language. More than 9 million people proclaim Belarusian ethnicity worldwi ...
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Companies Based In Odesa
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Over time, companies have evolved to have the following features: "separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, investor ownership, and a managerial hierarchy". The company, as an entity, was created by the state which granted the privilege of incorporation. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is to generate sales, revenue, and profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duties according to the publicly declared incorporation pu ...
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Railway Companies Of Ukraine
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and rail freight transport, freight transport globally, thanks to its Energy efficiency in transport, energy efficiency and potentially high-speed rail, high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower friction, frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by Diesel locomotive, diesel or Electric locomotive, electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital intensity, capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or an ...
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Ovidiopol
Ovidiopol (; ; ) is a coastal rural settlement in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the eastern bank of Dniester Estuary directly across Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and west of Odesa. Ovidiopol hosts the administration of Ovidiopol settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History The place is first mentioned as early as 17th century.Vermenych, Ya. Ovidiopol'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2010 Hacıdere belonged to Akkerman sanjak of Silistra Eyalet, or Kefe Eyalet where Akkerman sanjak was actually located. At Medieval times Akkerman, at that time known as Maurocastrum, was a trade port of Byzantine and later Genoese colonies out of the Southern coast of Crimea. In mid 18th century Hacıdere was a big populated place with a pier through which was conducted a grain trade. During the 1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War, in 1769 Hacıdere was burned down by Zaporizhian Cossacks led by Petro Kalnyshevskyi. About twenty years later in 1789 (durin ...
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Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia ( ; , ) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It serves as the administrative centre, administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast. It is the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. It also serves as the administrative center of Vinnytsia Raion, one of the six raions of Vinnytsia Oblast. It has a population of The city's roots date back to the Middle Ages. It was under Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Lithuanian and Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish control for centuries. From 1653 to 1667, Vinnytsia was a regimental city of the Cossack Hetmanate, Hetman state, and in 1793, it was ceded to the Russian Empire. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the city was the site of massacres, first during Joseph Stalin, Stalin's purges and then during the Holocaust in Ukraine and the Nazi occupation. A Cold War–era Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport, airbase was located near the city. Currently, Vinnytsia is developing as one of th ...
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Sergei Witte
Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte (, ; ), also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the emperor as head of government. Neither liberal nor conservative, he attracted foreign capital to boost Russia's industrialization. Witte's strategy was to avoid the danger of wars. Witte served under the final two emperors of Russia, Alexander III () and Nicholas II ().Harcave, Sidney. (2004)''Count Sergei Witte and the Twilight of Imperial Russia: A Biography,'' p. xiii./ref> During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), he had risen to a position in which he controlled all the traffic passing to the front along the lines of the Odessa Railways. As finance minister from 1892–1903, Witte presided over extensive industrialization and achieved government monopoly control over an expanded system of railroad lines. Following months of civil unrest and outbreaks of violence in what became known as the 1905 Russian Re ...
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Southwestern Railways
Southwestern Railways (PZZ), () headquartered in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, is a component part of the Ukrainian Railways, Ukrzaliznytsia company, its regional branch. It is named "Southwestern" because it is Southwest of Moscow, despite being in the Northern part of Ukraine. In February 2025, the Commission of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Noted that "Southwestern" and "Southern Railways" names are propaganda for Russian imperial policy and violate On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy, the law. Structure As of 2008, SWR's rail system included of track, of which 93,3% were electrified. The SWR consists of five sections (directions) named after the cities of their administration seat * Kyiv * Koziatyn * Zhmerynka * Korosten * Konotop. The above mentioned directions administrative seats beside regular train stations have also Motive power depot, locomotive and railcar depots ...
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Odesa Quarantine
The Odesa Quarantine () is a lazaretto located on Cape Langeron in the city of Odesa, Ukraine. Located adjacent to Shevchenko Park, the structure was historically used for preventing the spread of plague before being largely demolished in the late 19th century. History left, 230 px, Watch Tower was formerly used as the Quarantine_Cemetery.html" ;"title="morgue of the Quarantine Cemetery">morgue of the Quarantine Cemetery The modern Odesa Quarantine was established in 1811 on the basis of the Odesa Fortress, a defence line which had been constructed in 1793. The establishment of the Quarantine coincided with a plague outbreak, and it was established under the guidance of Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu. The original quarantine was built alongside the Port of Odesa by François Sainte de Wollant. It was at first very successful, but its wooden structure soon proved to be unable to cope with the increasing development of the city, and the quaran ...
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Kuchurhan, Rozdilna Raion
Kuchurhan (; ; ) is a village in Rozdilna Raion of Odesa Oblast in Ukraine. It is located along the Kuchurhan River at the north end of the Cuciurgan Reservoir along the border with Transnistria in Moldova. It is the site of highway, rail, and power line border crossings between Ukraine and Moldova. Kuchurhan belongs to Lymanske settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. History The village was established in 1808 as Strassburg by Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Black Sea Germans, German immigrants from Baden and Alsace to the Kutschurgan Valley, then part of the Russian Empire. It received its present name in 1944 after the remaining German residents were driven from the area by the advancing Soviet Union, Soviet army. Ukrainian 24 Kanal journalist Volodymyr Runets reported in March 2016 that Kuchurhan's schoolchildren were being taught anti-Americanism and that most villagers "loathe Ukrainian nationalism, Ukrainian patriots". Baden Baden (; ) was a village on ...
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