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List Of Railway Lines In Russia
{{Refimprove, date=September 2014 This is a list of railway lines in Russia. Main lines and their divisions Russian Railways is by far the largest and owns many of the other railways *East Siberian Railway ** Irkutsk Railway Division ** Severobaykalsk Railway Division ** Tayshet Railway Division **Ulan-Ude Railway Division *Far Eastern Railway ** Khabarovsk Railway Division ** Komsomolsk Railway Division ** Sakhalin Railway Division ** Tynda Railway Division ** Vladivostok Railway Division *Gorky Railway **Gorky Railway Division **Izhevsk Railway Division ** Kazan Railway Division **Kirov Railway Division **Murom Railway Division * Kaliningrad Railway * Krasnoyarsk Railway **Abakan Railway Division **Krasnoyarsk Railway Division * Kuybyshev Railway ** Bashkir Railway Division ** Penza Railway Division ** Samara Railway Division ** Ulyanovsk Railway Division *Moscow Railway ** Bryansk Railway Division ** Moscow-Kursk Railway Division ** Moscow-Ryazan Railway Division ** Moscow-Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Transport In 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)/length of track, Russia is second only to China. Rail transport in Russia has been described as one of the economic wonders of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. JSC Russian Railways has a near-monopoly on long-distance train travel in Russia, with a 98.6% market share in 2017. Independent long-distance carriers include Grand Service Express TC, Tverskoy Express, TransClassService, Sakhalin Passenger Company, Kuzbass Suburb, and Yakutian Railway. Characteristics Russia is larger than both the United States and China in terms of total land area, therefore its rail density (rail tracking/country area) is lower compared to those two countries. Since Russia's population density is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazan Railway Division
Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1.2 million residents, up to roughly 1.6 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Kazan is the fifth-largest city in Russia, and the most populous city on the Volga, as well as the Volga Federal District. Kazan became the capital of the Khanate of Kazan and was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century, becoming a part of Russia. The city was seized and largely destroyed during Pugachev's Rebellion of 1773–1775, but was later rebuilt during the reign of Catherine the Great. In the following centuries, Kazan grew to become a major industrial, cultural and religious centre of Russia. In 1920, after the Russian SFSR became a part of the Soviet Union, Kazan became the capital of the Tatar A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
