Babruysk Railway Station is a railway station in

Babruysk Babruysk (, ) or Bobruysk (, ; , ) is a city in Mogilev Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Babruysk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. It is situated on the Berezina, Berezina River. Bab ...

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

History

The station was built by

Karl Otto Georg von Meck Karl Otto Georg von Meck (; 22 June 1821 – 26 January 1876) was a Russian businessman of Baltic German descent who was one of the founders of Russian railway transport. Family Baron Karl von Meck came from an old Baltic-German noble family o ...

as part of the third section of the Libau–Romny Railway constructed 1871–1874. The Minsk-Babruysk section was completed onin September 1873, with the first locomotive arriving that November. Over the next few decades the facilities of the railway service was improved, with a station building being completed in 1900. In 1932 a new connection to Starushki was added.

Tsar Nicholas II Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. He married ...

visited Babruysk Station in December, 1904, where he reviewed the 1st Brigade of the 40th Infantry Division of the

Imperial Russian Army The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and ...

, stationed at the nearby Babruysk fortress. 10 billion rubles was spent in the 2004 to 2005 period to renovate the station, including new lighting and provision of flowerbeds.

Gallery

File:Nicholas II Bobruisk (1904).jpg, Tsar Nicholas II reviewing soldiers of the 157th Imeretinsky Infantry Regiment and the 158th Kutaisi Infantry Regiment at Bobruisk railway Station, 21 December 1904

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Babruysk Station Railway stations in the Russian Empire opened in 1873 Railway stations in Belarus opened in 1873 Babruysk