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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 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 ...
Russian railroads construction by year 1837–1989 Map of Russian railroads in 1916 Model (2002) of the steam locomotive constructed by Cherepanov (1834) People of all ethnicities and walks of life would meet on Russian trains (sketch by Vasily Perov, 1880) Tsarskoye Selo Imperial Station / Emperor railway station in Pushkin town 1913 The marker for kilometre 9288, at the end of the Trans ...
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.
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 ...
One factor is use of a wider rail gauge by the railways of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union than most of the rest of Europe and China. China's rail system had long linked to the Trans-Siberian via northeastern China and Mongolia. In 1990, China added a link between its rail system and the Trans-Siberian via Kazakhstan.
Map of the railway electrification in Russia in 2010; Detailed railway maps on the Transgarant website; Saint-Petersbourg - Moscow railway line (Железнодорожная линия Санкт-Петербург — Москва) : Russian Wikipedia article which indicates the speeds on this line. Spain. Spanish railway network map (ADIF)
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.