Yekaterinburg railway station

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

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.

Routes

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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

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International

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

References

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  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