Northern Railway: a role in the life of the country

If you open a map of our country, but not a simple geographical one, namely the one on which the important transport arteries of Russia are indicated by lines (and in places - dotted lines), you can see the most extreme strip. This is the Northern Railway. 5961, 4 km, connecting megacities, a huge number of cities, towns and villages ...

Section 1. The Northern Railway: general information

This railway line completely covers both northern and northeastern territories of the Russian Federation, including the Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Vologda, Ivanovo, Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions, the Republic of Komi, as well as individual zones of the Kirov and Tver regions, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and Karelia .

The Main Directorate is located in Yaroslavl.

The map of the Northern Railway helps to immediately examine all its branches: Arkhangelsk, Vorkuta, Vologda, Solvychegodsk, Sosnogorsk and Yaroslavl.

For today on this way huge volumes of various cargoes, ranging from coal, and finishing wood and mineral oil are transported.

Section 2. The Northern Railway: milestones of history

This highway, originally called the Moscow-Yaroslavl Railway, is rightly considered to be one of the oldest in the country. Now, it would seem, it is already difficult to imagine that its first site was built 145 years ago, far from us in 1868. And he connected only two small objects: the station Nivki and the village of Ivanovo.

Four years later, the Alexandrov-Yaroslavl-Vologda, Ivanovo-Kineshma and Rybinsk-Sonkovo sites were put into operation.

The section of Vologda-Arkhangelsk was laid in 1898. But at first it was just a narrow gauge, which later had to be turned into a wide gauge.

In just two years, two Obukhovo-Cherepovets-Vologda (1905) and Vologda-Vyatka (1906) lines were built and launched at once.

1907 became very significant. Why? Because, as a matter of fact, the Northern railways appeared in Russia, in fact. It was then that a decision was made to rename the main line.

In 1929-1932, the Moscow-Zagorsk site was commissioned. It becomes the first electrified part of the route.

In 1936, by order of the NKPS, the Northern Railways are divided into two: the Northern (with management in Vologda) and Yaroslavl.

In 1939, the map shows the Pechora Railway, which connects Konoshu and Vorkuta.

Section 3. The Northern Railway: Interesting Facts

• The operating length of the highway is 5951.7 km.
• SZD is the place of work for 64 757 employees of different qualifications.
• On average, over 225,000 tons of goods are transported over the year, more than 15,000 passengers on long-distance routes and around 25,000 on suburban trains.
• Those who have at least once traveled by the SZD probably know that, as a rule, a lot of long-distance trains run along the Koshta-Candle segment, traveling from St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg and Astana, as well as other trains of the so-called Ural-Siberian directions. By the way, at Vologda-1 station they intersect with the Moscow-Arkhangelsk train.
• The structure of the SZD was changed not so long ago. And if before 2010 it included the Sosnogorsky, Solvychegodsk, Vologda and Arkhangelsk branches, today the management is carried out in 4 regions: Yaroslavl, Sosnogorsk, Vologda and Arkhangelsk.