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The most important railway lines of 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 ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 14:16, 22 May 2017: 1,296 × 729 (140 KB): Carfois - Colored in emerald color the historical Transsiberian line.
The Russian-built system included the Chinese Eastern Railway, short-cutting across China's Manchuria; later on, its southern branch was connected with other Chinese railways. During the First World War and especially the Russian Civil War more than 60% of the Russian railway network and more than 80% of the carriages and locomotives were ...
A life size diorama of Russian track workers repairing railway tracks at the Museum of the Moscow Railway. 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 ...
The Trans-Siberian Railway, [a] historically known as the Great Siberian Route [b] and often shortened to Transsib, [c] is a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. [1] Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles), it is the longest railway line in the world. [2]
The old RZD logo. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation inherited 17 of the 32 regions of the former Soviet Railways (SZD). [8]In the mid-1990s, the profitability of railway transportation of the Russian Ministry of Railways fell to negative values, the bureaucratization of the ministry itself was publicly criticized, which became an occasion for reforms.
A Russian Railways Siemens Velaro Sapsan train. The transport network of the Russian Federation is one of the world's most extensive transport networks. The national web of roads, railways and airways stretches almost 7,700 km (4,800 mi) from Kaliningrad in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east, and major cities such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg are served by extensive rapid ...
Geographical map of Moscow Metro with Central Circle colored in red line, the rest is colored in dark gray. The Moscow Central Circle or MCC (Russian: Московское центральное кольцо, МЦК), [1] [2] (Line 14) and marked in a strawberry red/white color is a 54-kilometre-long (34 mi) orbital urban/metropolitan rail line that encircles historical Moscow.