South Eastern Railway (Russia)
Yugo- Vostochnaya schelesnaja doroga (Russian Юго - Восточная железная дорога, abbreviation ЮВЖД / JuWSchD ) is the name of a railway operationally independent branch of the Russian State Railway ( RŽD ). The Yugo- Vostochnaya schelesnaja doroga, literally " East Railway ", maintains a good 4000 km rail network in the south of the European part of Russia, between the catchment areas of the Moscow RŽD branch in the north and the North Caucasus branch in the south.
History of South-Eastern Railway
1863 was founded on the initiative of the Russian industrialist Pavel of Derwis and the Voronezh and Tambov Semstwa a corporation to raise funds for the construction of a railway line between Ryazan and Koslow (today Michurinsk ). At that time there was already a railway line from Moscow to 200 km southeast thereof located Ryazan, otherwise the southern part of the Russian Empire from the rail network was still largely cut off. After the 1865 were made to grant the state license to build the route Koslow was built within a relatively short period of time and could be put into service on September 4, 1866. Immediately began the construction work to extend the route to Voronezh, which were completed two years later.
Other major construction projects that have been realized by the corporation known as the Society of Ryazan Koslower Railway, was the completion of a single-track freight line from Liski after Rasdelnaja, with especially the coal mines in the eastern Donets Basin could be connected, and also the railway line from Voronezh to Rostov on-Don. Both routes were opened in 1871. 1893, the Society of Ryazan Koslower Railway officially became a joint-stock company of Southeastern railways; until then, a number of other routes had been built, such as by Koslow to Tambov or Balashov to Kharkiv already. In addition, several large railway workshops were taken in the catchment area of the Company ( including in Voronezh, Rostov, Yelets and Tsaritsyn ) in operation.
After the October Revolution, the Southeastern Railway Company was nationalized, but kept their ground operationally independent status and the administrative headquarters in Voronezh. Until 1992, she was one of the branches of the state railways of the USSR. In the second half of the 20th century a large part of the route network of the Southeastern Railway was electrified.
Current operation
With the state of 2008, the Yugo- Vostochnaya schelesnaja doroga operates a total of 4189.1 km long railway network, which extends to the following oblasts of Russia:
- Belgorod
- Kursk
- Lipetsk
- Penza ( partial coverage; Following the Kuibyshev Railway )
- Ryazan ( partial coverage; connection to the Moscow Railway )
- Rostow ( partial coverage; connection to the North Caucasian railway)
- Saratov ( partial coverage; Following the Volga railway)
- Tambov
- Tula ( partial coverage; connection to the Moscow Railway )
- Volgograd ( partial coverage; Following the Volga railway)
- Voronezh
The administrative center of the track is located in Voronezh, there also exist the five regional divisions Belgorod, Yelets, Liski, Michurinsk and Rtischtschewo. In 2008, a total of 217.6 million tons of goods were transported. In the same year, the Southeastern Railway transported 28.4 million passengers in long-distance and 28.2 million in transport. The number of employees of the store including the below rail services was approximately 47,100 people.