Yekaterinburg railway station

Summary

Yekaterinburg–Passazhirsky (Russian: Екатеринбург-Пассажирский)[3] is the central passenger railway station in Yekaterinburg, a major transportation hub, located on the Trans-Siberian main line and Sverdlovsk Railway. The station complex consisting of 4 buildings, provides 60 per diem departure passenger and commuter trains more than 180.

Yekaterinburg-Passazirskiy
Sverdlovsk Railway terminal
View of the station from a platform
General information
LocationYekaterinburg, Russia
Coordinates56°51′32″N 60°36′15″E / 56.85889°N 60.60417°E / 56.85889; 60.60417
Owned byRussian Railways (Sverdlovsk Railway)
Platforms7 (6 island platforms)
Tracks15
Construction
Parkingyes
Other information
Station code250302[1]
Fare zone0
History
Opened1878[2]
Services
Preceding station   Sverdlovsk Railway   Following station

Routes edit

Yekaterinburg station is a junction station on the Trans-Siberian main line. The current building was built in 1915. In the period from 1997 to 2001 the station was reconstructed and completely renewed.[4]

Yekaterinburg station trains haul in seven directions, following in Abakan, Anapa, Adler, Almaty, Astana, Barnaul, Baku, Bishkek, Blagoveshchensk, Brest, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Izhevsk, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kemerovo, Kirov, Kislovodsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Minsk, Moscow, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Tagil, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Novorossiysk, Novy Urengoy, Orenburg, Beijing, Perm, Petropavlovsk, Samara, St. Petersburg, Severobaykalsk, Severouralsk, Solikamsk, Tashkent, Tyumen, Tomsk, Tynda, Ufa, Kharkiv, Vladivostok, Chita, Ulan Bator, Ulan-Ude, Mouth-Aha. Cars also ply direct messages to Berlin, Bijsk, Warsaw, Gomel, Grodno, Kyiv, Mogilev, Neryungri, Pavlodar, Pyongyang, Ruzaevka, Sovetskaya Gavan, Tommot, and Erdenet.

Trains and destinations edit

International edit

Train number Train name Destination Operated by
001М/002Щ Rossiya
Россия
  Moscow (Yaroslavsky)
  Vladivostok (cars:   Pyongyang,
  Tumangang)
  Russian Railways
003З/004З   Moscow (Yaroslavsky)
  Beijing (Main)
Runs through   Mongolia
  China Railway
005Щ/006Щ   Moscow (Yaroslavsky)
  Ulaanbaatar (cars:   Erdenet)
  Russian Railways
  Ulaanbataar Railway
019Ч/020Щ Vostok
Восток
  Moscow (Yaroslavsky)
  Beijing (Main)
  Russian Railways
063Б/064Б   Minsk (cars:   Brest)
  Novosibirsk
  Belarusian Railways
089У/090У Zauralye
Зауралье
  Moscow (Kazansky)
  Kurgan (cars:   Chelyabinsk,
  Novokuznetsk,   Petropavl)
  Russian Railways
304Ц/305Щ   Kazan (Main)
  Almaty (Almaty-2)
(cars:   Bishkek (Bishkek-2),   Tashkent)
  Kazakhstan Temir Zholy
  Kyrgyz Railways
  Uzbek Railways

References edit

  1. ^ "История электрификации железных дорог СССР".
  2. ^ Железнодорожные станции СССР. Справочник. — М.: Транспорт, 1981
  3. ^ Постановление Правительства РФ № 196 от 30.03.2010 г. «О присвоении наименований географическим объектам в Республике Карелия и переименовании географических объектов в Нижегородской и Свердловской областях» — 03.04.2010
  4. ^ Факты о станции Екатеринбург-Пассажирский