The Ministry of Railways oversaw the railways of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. It was subdivided into 32 different railway agencies, which between them had millions of employees. The ministry was responsible for several centralized departments, such as electrification, which applied to all subsidiaries.

Prior to 1946, the ministry was known as the Peoples Commissariat for Railways, although the term Ministry of Railways had been used by the pre-Soviet ministry founded in 1865.

See also

• Rail transport in the Soviet Union
  Rail transport in the Soviet Union
  The Soviet Union was heavily dependent on rail transport, not least during the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, but also for industrialization according to the five-year plans....