The Southern Railways (SR) ( uk, Південна залізниця, russian: Южная железная дорога) is a composing part of

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Ukrzaliznytsia Ukrainian Railways ( uk, Укрзалізниця, Ukrzaliznytsia, abbreviated as UZ) is a state-owned joint-stock company of rail transport in Ukraine, a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country. ...

railroad company and is headquartered in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Poltava Poltava (, ; uk, Полтава ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administrative ...

and some railroads in other

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s (

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s) as well. As of 2008, the Southern Railways operate of track. The Southern Railways company contributes a large role as a transit railway in the routes of

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and

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History

This regional railways was formed in 1907 soon after a merge of the

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railways and the Kharkiv-Mykolaiv railways. The company traces its history to the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railways that was established in 1869.

Structure

;Subdivisions * Sumy * Kharkiv * Poltava * Kupiansk ;Others * Central House of Science and Technology (Kharkiv subdivision) * Mykola Hohol Sanatorium

Directors

Southern Railways

* 1907–1907 Johann-Theodore "Fyodor" Schmidt * 1907–1908 Viktor Rozanov * 1909–1910 Ippolit Ivanovskiy * 1910–1913 Vladislav Stulginskiy * 1913–1916 Boris Voskresenskiy * 1916–1917 Boris Yazykov * ''1920–1920 Aleksei Ivanov (commissar)'' * 1920–1921 A.Hlavatskyi * 1921–1922 V.Nauman * 1923–1926 A.Ivanov * 1920s I.Myronov * 1927–1928 Viktor Paniashvili * 1928–1930 P.Bandura * 1931–1933 Yakiv Livshyts * 1933–1934 Mykola Levchenko * 1934–1934 Oleksiy Zorin

Southern Railway

* 1934–1937 Petro Shushkov * 1937–1938 Ilarion Maliy * 1938–1944 Semen Kutafin * 1944–1945 Kostiantyn Danylenko * 1945–1954 Petro Dmytryuk * 1954–1959 Kostiantyn Kozhukhar * 1959–1972 Hryhoriy Holovchenko * 1972–1976 Mykola Konaryev * 1976–1983 Oleksiy Shutov * 1983–1995 Oleksandr Puchko * 1995–1997 Oleh Kryuchkov * 1997–2000 Vasyl Nesvit * 2000–2005 Viktor Ostapchuk * 2005–2005 Hryhoriy Boiko * 2005–2012 Viktor Ostapchuk * 2012–2014 Oleksandr Filatov * 2014– Mykola Umanets

External links

Ukrzalznytsia official site
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