List of railways in Russia
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Main lines and their divisions
- Donetsk Railway (a section runs in Rostov OblastRostov OblastRostov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located in the Southern Federal District. Rostov Oblast has an area of and a population of making it the sixth most populous federal subject in Russia...
, Russia) - East Siberian RailwayEast Siberian RailwayThe East Siberian Railway is a railway in Russia , which runs across Irkutsk Oblast, Chita Oblast, Buryatia, and Yakutia. The railway administration is located in Irkutsk...
- Irkutsk Railway Division
- Severobaykalsk Railway Division
- Tayshet Railway Division
- Ulan-Ude Railway Division
- Far Eastern RailwayFar Eastern RailwayThe Far Eastern Railway , a branch of the Russian Railways, is a railway in Russia that crosses Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, and Yakutia. It also services Magadan Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Kamchatka Oblast, and Chukotka. The railway administration is...
- Khabarovsk Railway Division
- Komsomolsk Railway Division
- Tynda Railway Division
- Vladivostok Railway Division
- Gorky RailwayGorky RailwayThe Gorkovskaya Railway is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod ....
- Gorky Railway Division
- Izhevsk Railway Division
- Kazan Railway Division
- Kirov Railway Division
- Murom Railway Division
- Kaliningrad RailwayKaliningrad RailwayThe Kaliningrad Railway was separated from the Pribaltiyskaya Railway after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1992. It is the smallest subsidiary of the Russian Railways by route length and differs from other Russian railways in having a string of standard gauge lines. The railway is...
- Krasnoyarsk RailwayKrasnoyarsk RailwayThe Krasnoyarsk Railway is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Krasnoyarsk and serving the south of Siberia. Its mainline is a link in the Trans-Siberian Railway crossing the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Khakassia. It is wedged between the West Siberian Railway and East Siberian Railway...
- Abakan Railway Division
- Krasnoyarsk Railway Division
- Kuybyshev RailwayKuybyshev RailwayThe Kuybyshevskaya Railway is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways operating in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Mordovia, Ryazan Oblast, Penza, Tambov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Orenburg, and Chelyabinsk Oblasts of Russia. Its headquarters are in Samara...
- Bashkir Railway Division
- Penza Railway Division
- Samara Railway Division
- Ulyanovsk Railway Division
- Moscow RailwayMoscow RailwayThe Moscow Railway is a subsidiary of Russian Railways that handles half of Russia's suburban railway operations and a quarter of the country's passenger traffic...
- Bryansk Railway Division
- Moscow-Kursk Railway Division
- Moscow-Ryazan Railway Division
- Moscow-Smolensk Railway Division
- Oryol-Kursk Railway Division
- Smolensk Railway Division
- Tula Railway Division
- North Caucasus RailwayNorth Caucasus RailwayNorth Caucasus Railway is a broad gauge Russian railway network that links the Sea of Azov and Caspian Sea . It runs through ten federal subjects: Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, Republic of Adygeya, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kalmykia...
- Grozny Railway Division
- Krasnodar Railway Division
- Makhachkala Railway Division
- Mineralnye Vody Railway Division
- Rostov Railway Division
- Northern RailwayNorthern Railway (Russia)The Severnaya Railway is a railway network linking Moscow with Arkhangelsk on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. It runs through Arkhangelsk, Komi, Vologda, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, and Vladimir regions of the Russian Federation.The Yaroslavl Railway, owned by Savva Mamontov, was one of the first...
- Arkhangelsk Railway Division
- Solvychegodsk Railway Division
- Sosnogorsk Railway Division
- Vologda Railway Division
- Yaroslavl Railway Division
- Oktyabrskaya RailwayOktyabrskaya RailwayThe broad gauge Oktyabrskaya Railway or October Railway , which forms part of RZD, is the oldest railway in Russia, located in the north-west of the country. It stretches from Moscow's Leningrad Terminal in the south to Murmansk beyond the Arctic Circle in the north. The total length of the lines...
- Moscow Railway Division
- Murmansk Railway Division
- Petrozavodsk Railway Division
- Saint Petersburg Railway Division
- Saint Petersburg-Vitebsk Railway Division
- Volkhovstroy Railway Division
- Sakhalin RailwaySakhalin RailwayThe Sakhalin Railway is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways that operates the Japanese-built railways in the south of Sakhalin. Its length was reduced from 1072 km in 1992 to 805 km in 2006. The headquarters are in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The prevalent Cape gauge is a major problem for the Russian...
- South-Eastern Railway
- Belgorod Railway Division
- Liski Railway Division
- Michurinsk Railway Division
- Rtishchevo Railway Division
- Yelets Railway Division
- South Urals RailwaySouth Urals RailwayThe Yuzhno-Uralskaya Railway is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chelyabinsk. It operates the railways in the Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, and Sverdlovsk regions as well as the Republic of Bashkortostan. Their total length is 4935 km...
- Chelyabinsk Railway Division
- Kartaly Railway Division
- Kurgan Railway Division
- Orenburg Railway Division
- Petropavlovsk Railway Division
- Sverdlovsk RailwaySverdlovsk RailwayThe Sverdlovsk Railway is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Yekaterinburg ....
- Nizhny Tagil Railway Division
- Perm Railway Division
- Surgut Railway Division
- Sverdlovsk Railway Division
- Tyumen Railway Division
- Trans-Baikal RailwayTrans-Baikal RailwayThe Trans-Baikal Railway is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chita and serving Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast. The mainline was built between 1895 and 1905 as part of the Trans-Siberian Railway. It bordered the Circum-Baikal Railway on the west and the Chinese Eastern...
- Chita Railway Division
- Mogocha Railway Division
- Svobodny Railway Division
- Volga Railway
- Astrakhan Railway Division
- Saratov Railway Division
- Volgograd Railway Division
- West Siberian RailwayWest Siberian RailwayThe West Siberian Railway is a stretch of the Trans-Siberian Railway crossing the Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk, and Altai regions of the Russian Federation as well as a portion of Kazakhstan. The company is headquartered in Novosibirsk and operated by the Russian Railways...
- Altay Railway Division
- Kuzbass Railway Division
- Novosibirsk Railway Division
- Omsk Railway Division
Fragments of main lines and historical lines
- Alma-Ata Railway (a section runs in Altai KraiAltai KraiAltai Krai is a federal subject of Russia . It borders with, clockwise from the south, Kazakhstan, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Oblasts, and the Altai Republic. The krai's administrative center is the city of Barnaul...
, Russia) - Amur RailwayAmur RailwayThe broad gauge Amur Railway is the last section of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, built in 1906-1916. The construction of this railway favored the development of gold mining industry, logging, fishery, and fur trade in Siberia and Russian Far East. It is over 2115 km in length, stretching...
- Baikal Amur Mainline
- Baltic Railway (a section runs in Kaliningrad OblastKaliningrad OblastKaliningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia situated on the Baltic coast. It has a population of The oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia. Since its creation it has been an exclave of the Russian SFSR and then the...
, Russia) - Kemerovo Railway
- Krugobaikalskaya Railway
- Mid-Siberian Railway
- Moscow-Brest RailwayMoscow-Brest RailwayThe Moscow to Brest Railway is a railway running between Moscow and Brest.-Major stations:Belorussky - Vyazma - Smolensk - Orsha - Minsk - Stoŭbcy - Baranovichi - Brest...
- Moscow-Kazan Railway
- Moscow-Kiev-Voronezh Railway
- Moscow-Kursk Railway
- Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod Railway
- Moscow Ring Railway
- Moscow-Saint Petersburg RailwayMoscow-Saint Petersburg RailwayThe Moscow to Saint Petersburg Railway is a railway running between the two largest Russian cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and through four oblasts: Moscow, Tver, Novgorod and Leningrad...
- Moscow-Vindava-Rybinsk Railway
- Murmansk-Nikel RailwayMurmansk-Nikel RailwayThe Murmansk–Nikel Railway is a 206 km long railway between Murmansk and Nikel in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, primarily for freight from the nickel mine at Nikel, but also open to passengers. The railway was completed in 1968 and is not electrified. A part was built 1936...
- Murom RailwayMurom RailwayThe broad gauge Murom Railway is a subdivision of the state-owned Gorky Railway in Russia. It was built between the towns of Kovrov and Murom in 1874-1880...
- Nikolayevskaya Railway
- Northern Donetsk Railway (a section runs in Kursk OblastKursk OblastKursk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kursk.-Geography:The oblast occupies the southern slopes of the middle-Russian plateau, and its average elevation is from 177 to 225 meters . The surface is hilly, and intersected by ravines...
, Russia) - North Western Railways
- Perm Railway
- Polesia Railways (a section runs in Bryansk OblastBryansk OblastBryansk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Bryansk. Population: 1,278,087 .-History:...
, Russia) - Riga-Oryol Railway
- Ryazan-Urals Railway
- Saint Peterburg-Warsaw Railway
- Saint Petersburg-Hiitola railroad
- Salekhard-Igarka Railway
- Siberian Railway
- Syzran-Vyazma Railway
- Tashkent Railway (a sections runs in OrenburgOrenburg OblastOrenburg Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name Chkalov Oblast in honor of Valery Chkalov...
and Samara OblastSamara OblastSamara Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Samara. Population: In 1936–1990, it was known as Kuybyshev Oblast , after the Soviet name of Samara .-Demographics:Population:...
s, Russia) - Trans-Siberian RailwayTrans-Siberian RailwayThe Trans-Siberian Railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. It is the longest railway in the world...
- Tsarskoye Selo RailwayTsarskoye Selo RailwayThe Tsarskoye Selo Railway was the first public railway line in the Russian Empire. It ran for from Saint Petersburg to Pavlovsk through the nearby Tsarskoye Selo. Construction began in May 1836, and the first test trips were carried out the same year between Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk, using...
- Turkestan-Siberia RailwayTurkestan-Siberia RailwayThe Turkestan–Siberian Railway is a broad gauge railway that connects Central Asia with Siberia. It starts north of Tashkent in Uzbekistan at Arys, where it branches off from the Trans-Caspian Railway. It heads roughly northeast through Shymkent, Taraz, Bishkek to the former Kazakh capital of...
- Ussuri Railway
- Vladikavkaz Railway
- Vyborg-Joensuu railroad
- West Kazakhstan Railway (a section runs in Orenburg Oblast, Russia)