Sumy Railway Station
Sumy (Ukrainian: Суми) is a railway station in Sumy, Ukraine. It is a major freight and passenger station, the main one of the Sumy Directorate of Southern Railways on the Bilopillya-Basy line. It is located in the north of Kovpakivskyi District of Sumy. History The construction of the railway from Vorozhba to Merefa in 1877 can be considered the beginning of the history of the Sumy-Pasazhyrskyi station, as this was when its foundation was laid. In 1878, the sound of a steam locomotive was heard for the first time at the station, which marked the beginning of the rapid economic and cultural development of the city of Sumy. In 1913, three trains departed from the station daily. In 1948 the station was rebuilt after World War II. In 1982 a new railway station building was built. In 1999-2000, work was carried out to strengthen the foundations and load-bearing structures of the building, as there was a threat of destruction of the building. During 2001-2005, the station ...
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Southern Railways (Ukraine)
The Southern Railways (SR) ( uk, Південна залізниця, russian: Южная железная дорога) is a composing part of Ukraine's Ukrzaliznytsia railroad company and is headquartered in Kharkiv. Southern Railways's route map covers all railroads of the Kharkiv, Poltava and some railroads in other oblasts (regions) 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 Russia-Crimea and Russia-Caucasus. History This regional railways was formed in 1907 soon after a merge of the Kursk-Kharkiv-Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ... railways and the Kharkiv-Mykolaiv railways. The company traces its history to the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railways ...
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