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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.
Russian Railways Official Site (in English and Russian) Steam on Sakhalin Island ; Russian Railway in 1935 "A site about railways in C.I.S. and Baltics". Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Rail Fan Europe "Rail map of former Soviet Union". Archived from the original on 4 January 2013.
Today Russian Railways, a state-owned railway company, is one of the biggest railway companies in the world with 950,000 employees [1] and a monopoly within Russia. The total length of line used by the Russian Railways is, at 85,500 kilometres (53,130 mi), [2] one of the largest in the world, exceeded only by the United States. [3]
It was reformed into the Ministry of Railways in 1946 and later expanded its authority to become the Ministry of Transport of the USSR. It was re-established as the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and received its current name when the state was renamed to ...
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 ...
Russian name Transliterated name Name meaning Railroad Train endpoints Train number Operated Note Ref Аврора Avrora Aurora: RŽD: Moscow Leningradsky – St.Petersburg Glavny: 741/742, 743/744 1963–2010 Returning to service 19th December 2024 ? Арктика Arktika Arctic: RŽD: Moscow Leningradsky – Murmansk: 015А/016А present [1 ...
In accordance with the concept of administrative reform and structural reform of the railways, the functions of formulating state policy and issuing normative acts were transferred to the Ministry of Transport of Russia, the functions of law enforcement, state property management and the provision of public services to Roszheldor, the oversight ...
Moscow Railway (Russian: Московская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of Russian Railways that handles half of Russia's suburban railway operations and a quarter of the country's passenger traffic. As of 2009 the railway, which has its headquarters near Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow, employed 73 600 people. [1]