The

Imperial Russian The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The ...

narrow railway track gauge was , the current track gauge is predominantly . In Soviet Russia, narrow-gauge railways were mostly common in forestry and peat industries in low inhabited places. Usually they have one main line and number of temporary branches. There was commonly a passenger service to villages and towns for workers. As of the mid 2010s, a number of industrial railways survive in places with bad roads, but every year some railways are closing. A government railway operator, RZD, closed all owned common 750 mm railways, but still have a number of children's railways with standard rolling stock. The most well-known narrow-gauge railways are

Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway The Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway (russian: Алапаевская узкоколейная железная дорога, ) is a Russian narrow-gauge railway with a track gauge of . The Head Office of the narrow-gauge railway is located in Ala ...

(municipal passenger),

Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway The Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway (russian: italic=yes, Апшеронская узкоколейная железная дорога, ''Apsheronskya uzkokoleynaya zheleznaya doroga'') is a mountain narrow-gauge railway located in Krasnodar Kra ...

(mountain industrial railway with passenger service), and Karinskaya narrow-gauge railway (suburban passenger private railway). Also children's railways are located in many big cities. Kp4-469

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Sakhalin Railway Sakhalin Railway (russian: Сахалинская железная дорога) is one of the railway division under Far Eastern Railway that primarily serves in Sakhalin Island. Due to its island location, the railway becomes the second isolated ...

. This railway was built by

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who occupied southern Sakhalin after the Russo-Japanese War. The network was extended to the northern part of the island in the Soviet era. It was the last Russian railway in and underwent conversion to from 2003 to 2019. * Kulebaki Factory Railway is located in

Kulebaki Kulebaki (russian: Кулеба́ки) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 35,759. History The village of K ...

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is located in the

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...

, Alapayevsk. *

Altsevo peat railway The Altsevo peat railway is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1962, and has a total length of and a track gauge of . Current status The Altsevo peat railway was constructed in 1962 in the Tonshayevsky D ...

is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, closed in 2015. *

the largest

mountain railway A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region. It may operate through the mountains by following mountain valleys and tunneling beneath mountain passes, or it may climb a mountain to provide transport to and from the sum ...

in Russia. *

Belorucheiskaya narrow-gauge railway The Belorucheiskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Vologda Oblast, Russia. The forest railway was opened in 1922, has a total length of and is operational . The track gauge is and operates year-round. Current status The Belorucheiskaya n ...

is located in Vologda Oblast. * Dymnoye peat railway is located in

Kirov Oblast Kirov Oblast (russian: Ки́ровская о́бласть, ''Kirovskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in Eastern Europe. Its administrative center is the city of Kirov. Population: 1,341,312 ( 2010 Census). Geography Na ...

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Gladkoye narrow-gauge railway The Gladkoye peat railway (''russian: link=no, Узкоколейная железная дорога торфопредприятия «Гладкое»'') is located in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1970, and has a tot ...

is located in

Leningrad Oblast Leningrad Oblast ( rus, Ленинградская область, Leningradskaya oblast’, lʲɪnʲɪnˈgratskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It was established on 1 August 1927, a ...

. *

Gorokhovskoye peat railway The Gorokhovskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1960, and has a total length of which is currently operational; the track gauge is . Current status Gorokhovskoye peat railway emerged in the 1 ...

is located in

. *

Gusevskoye peat railway The Gusevskoye peat railway is located in Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1920, and has a total length of which is currently operational; the track gauge is . History Gusevskoye peat railway emerged in the 1920s, in the ...

is located in Vladimir Oblast. * Kerzhenets peat railway is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, closed in 2014. *

Kobrinskaya narrow-gauge railway The Kobrinskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The forest railway was opened in 1946, has a total length of and is operational as of 2014, the track gauge is and operates year-round. Current status The Kobrinskaya ...

is located in

. *

Konetsgorskaya narrow-gauge railway The Konetsgorskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The forest railway was opened in 1942, has a total length of and is operational . The track gauge is and operates year-round. Current status The Konetsgorskaya ...

is located in

Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land ...

, closed in 2018. *

Kudemskaya narrow-gauge railway The Kudemskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The narrow-gauge railway, a former forest railway, was opened in 1949 and has a total length of , of which is currently operational. The track gauge is . The head off ...

has appeared in Forbes.ru ranking one of the 10 most beautiful railway lines of the world in the year 2010. * Kushaverskoye peat railway is located in Novgorod Oblast. * Laryan narrow-gauge railway is located in

. *

Loyginskaya narrow-gauge railway The Loyginskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast and Vologda Oblast, Russia. The forest railway was opened in 1947, and its current operational total length is . The railway is a narrow-gauge railway and it operates year-ro ...

is located in

. * Lundanskaya narrow gauge railway is located in

. * Mesherskoye peat railway is located in Ryazan Oblast. * Mokeiha-Zybinskoe peat railway is located in Yaroslavl Oblast, closed in 2016. *

Narrow-gauge railway of Decor-1 factory The Decor-1 factory railway is in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. The railway was opened in 1946, and has a total length of its track gauge is . The railway is used for the transportation of gypsum from the mine to the «Dekor-1» factory. ...

, is located in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. *

Narrow-gauge railway of Caprolactam factory The narrow-gauge railroad of Caprolactam factory in Datchnij settlement is the only railway in Russia hauling salt trains. Is located in Dzerzhinsk. The railway was opened in 1939, and has a total length of 8 km and closed in 2013; the tra ...

, is located in the Dzerzhinsk, closed in 2013. * Narrow-gauge railway of KSM-2 factory, is located in the Tver, closed in 2020. * Nyubskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in

. * Pereslavl Railway Museum is located in Yaroslavl Oblast. * Pelgorskoye peat railway is located in

. *

Pishchalskoye peat railway The Pishchalskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1963 and has a total length of which is currently operational; the track gauge is . Current status Pishchalskoye peat railway emerged in the 1963 ...

is located in

. * Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway, is located in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. * Ronga narrow gauge railway, is located in the Mari El, closed in 2020. *

Oparinskaya narrow-gauge railway The Oparinskaya narrow-gauge railway is a narrow-gauge railway in Kirov Oblast, Russia, built as an industrial railway (forest railway) for logging operations. The forest railway was opened in 1952, has a total length of and is operational as of ...

is located in

, closed in 2020. * Otvorskoye peat railway is located in

, closed in 2020. *

Sharya Forest Museum Railway The Sharya Forest Museum Railway (''russian: link=no, Узкоколейная железная дорога Шарьинского музея леса'') is a -gauge forest railway based at open-air Sharya Forest Museum located in Sharya, open ...

is located in Kostroma Oblast. * Solotchinskoye peat railway is located in Ryazan Oblast. * Tumskaja–Golowanowa Datscha railway line, closed in 2008, part of the Gorky Railway * Tyosovo peat railway is located in Novgorod Oblast. *

Udimskaya narrow-gauge railway The Udimskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The forest railway was opened in 1938 and currently operates year-round. The track gauge is and the railway has a total length of . Current status The Udimskay ...

is located in

. * Zelennikovskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in

, closed in 2018.

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* This site contains material of Russian narrow-gauge railways
uzd.spb
* A complete list of Russian and other ex-Soviet
narrow.parovoz.com
* «The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko

* Pereslavl Railway Museum
www.kukushka.ru

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