This List of Russian steam locomotive classes includes those built both before and during the

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

era. They are to the gauge of unless otherwise stated. Some locomotives originally used in

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during the period of the

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were built to and later converted to gauge. Class letters are shown in Cyrillic characters, followed by romanized characters in the next column. For more information, see

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. The main source for this list is Le Fleming and Price's ''Russian Steam Locomotives''.

Locomotive built before 1925

Locomotives built after 1925

Captured locomotives

Locomotive builders

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Kolomna Kolomna (, ) is a historic types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Moskva River, Moskva and Oka Rivers, (by rail) southeast of Moscow. Population: History Mentioned for the fir ...

, Moscow, founded 1862 * Nevsky, Saint Petersburg, first locomotive 1870 * Briansk, Moscow, founded 1873 *

Kirov Plant The Kirov Plant, Kirov factory or Leningrad Kirov plant (LKZ) () is a major Russian mechanical engineering and agricultural machinery manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was established in 1789, then moved to its present site in 1801 ...

(or Putilov), Saint Petersburg, first locomotive 1894 *

Kharkov Locomotive Factory The Malyshev Factory (; abbreviated ), formerly the Kharkov Locomotive Factory (, ), is a state-owned manufacturer of heavy equipment in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was named after the Soviet politician Vyacheslav Malyshev. The factory is part of the s ...

, first locomotive 1897 *

Sormovo Factory Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard No. 112 named after Andrei Zhdanov () is one of the oldest shipbuilding factories in Russia, located in the Sormovsky City District of Nizhny Novgorod (formerly called Gorky). Early history The shipyard was establ ...

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

, first locomotive 1898

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Locomotive built before 1925

Locomotives built after 1925

Captured locomotives

Locomotive builders

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