The Moscow-Kazan railway was opened in 1893. In 1890 the ''Moscow-Kazan Railway Association'' was established after negotiations with the government. In 1891

Nikolai von Meck Nikolai Karlovich von Meck (russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович фон Мекк; 28 April 1863 – 24 May 1929) was a Russian Empire engineer and entrepreneur involved in the development of the Russian Empire during the first part of the t ...

, the son of

Karl Otto Georg von Meck Karl Otto Georg von Meck (Карл Фёдорович фон Мекк), (22 June 1821 – 26 January 1876, Moscow) was an important 19th century Baltic German businessman, one of the founders of the Russian Empire railways. Family Baron Karl ...

was appointed with the patronage of

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. Nikolai's father had played an important role in running the '' Moscow-Ryazan Railway Association'' In 1936 the

People's Commissariat of Railways The Ministry of Railways (russian: Министерство путей сообщения (МПС) Российской империи/ СССР/ РФ or Народный комиссариат путей сообщения (НКПС), more cor ...

created the Moscow-Kazan railway as a separate organisation. In 1961 the line was merged into the

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