South Ural Railway: figures, facts, history

The South Ural Railway is one of the largest in Russia. Today, as at the dawn of its history, it is important for industry and passenger traffic.

Facts About South Ural Railway

The South Ural Railway has a total length of about 8 thousand km, of which 4545 km are operational. Its paths pass through the territory of two countries: Russia (along the lands of Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Samara, Kurgan, Saratov, Sverdlovsk regions, Bashkortostan) and Kazakhstan.

In 2003, the branch of the South Ural Railway became a branch of Russian Railways. Back in 1971, the highway was awarded the Order of the October Revolution.

The key stations of the South Ural Railway: Chelyabinsk-Glavny, Magnitogorsk, Kurgan, Orenburg, Troitsk, Orsk, Berdyaush, Orenburg, Kartaly, Petropavlovsk. Locomotive depots are located in Buzuluk, Kurgan, Verkhny Ufaley, Zlatoust, Troitsk, Kartaly, Orsk, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk and Petropavlovsk, motor-car depots - in Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Sakmar region.

More than half of the railway is electrified, electrical centralization devices are installed on 85% of the switches. Also, along the entire length of the railway, it is equipped with energy, electricity, automation, telemechanics, and television supply systems.

In the north, the South Ural railway connects with the similar Sverdlovsk railway, in the east - with the West Siberian, in the west - with Kuybyshevskaya, in the south-west - with the Volga, in the south - with the railway lines of Kazakhstan.

Statistics

South Ural Railway in numbers:

Number of employees (as of 2016): 40, 951 people.
Passengers transported (2016): suburban routes - 6.7 million, long-distance - 6.8 million people.
Freight forwarded (2016): 295.4 million tons
The total area of served railroad tracks is more than 400 thousand m ².
72 stations with 169 shunting locomotives, of which 14 operate on electric traction, the rest on thermal.
219 stations have an automatic control system.
The South Ural Railway has 247 points of track development. Of these, 173 are intermediate, 34 - cargo, 21 - traveling, track posts, 13 - precinct, 5 - sorting and 1 passenger.
By class, 247 stations of the South Ural Railway are subdivided into: 9 extra-curricular, 10 first class, 18 - second, 34 - third, 63 - fourth, 92 - fifth, 21 - not having class.
On the entire range of the highway there are 20 track distances, 12 - power supply, 10 - centralization, interlocking and signaling, and there are also IFR ISSO (distance of engineering structures), DITsDM (diagnostics and monitoring of infrastructure devices).
12 sorting slides, 11 of them are mechanized.
The railway has 4 car depots and 6 locomotive depots.

The following elements are also relevant to South Ural Railway:

Chelyabinsk Institute of Railways.
Training center DMK.
Two technical schools of railway transport.
Three children's railways (Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Orenburg).
Health-improving recreation centers.
A number of foster schools.
Museum of the History of South Ural Railway (Chelyabinsk, Zwilling, 63) and the museum of railway equipment in the open.

Industry and South Ural Railway

South Ural Railway is distinguished not only by its location at the intersection of Europe and Asia, but also by its industrial focus. 65% of the trains passing here are just commodity. In 2015, cargo turnover amounted to 163.8 billion ton-km.

Each of the areas through which the South Ural Railway passes is distinguished by its cargo character:

Kurgan region - metal structures, industrial raw materials, equipment, flour.
Orenburg Region - construction materials, chemicals, petroleum products, non-ferrous ore, refractories, ferrous metals.
Chelyabinsk Region - products of ferrous metallurgy (the vast majority of cargo from the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works), refractories, industrial raw materials, construction cargo, food, including flour.

Department of the South Ural Railway

The main managing building is located in Chelyabinsk, on Revolution Square, 3.

The manual is presented by the following individuals today:

Popov Viktor Alekseevich - Head of the South Ural Railway.
Chernov Sergey Sergeevich - the first deputy.
Selmensky Alexander Viktorovich - 1st Deputy. in finance, economics, administrative coordination.
Khramtsov Anatoly Mikhailovich - chief engineer.
Smirnov Anatoly Vasilievich - chief auditor for the safety of movement of trains.
Zharov Sergey Ivanovich - deputy. on social issues and personnel.
Dyachenko Mikhail Evgenievich - Deputy. for safety.
Antonov Sergey Pavlovich - deputy. on interaction with power structures.

The beginning of the history of the railway

The history of the South Ural Railway is closely connected with the construction of the Great Siberian Railway. The work was carried out at an enviable pace:

1888 - the Moscow-Ufa train was launched.
1890 - the direction of Ufa-Zlatoust was opened.
1892 - arrival of the first train to Chelyabinsk.
1893 - the Chelyabinsk-Kurgan route was opened.

After the opening of the Kurgan-Omsk section in 1896, the Trans-Siberian Railway began to function to its full potential. 29 locomotives and over a thousand covered wagons and platforms plyed here. The cargo turnover exceeded the expectations of the tsarist government, which made it necessary to lay a second line of tracks. So, in 1914, it amounted to 5.4 million tons. However, the Chelyabinsk-Tomsk flight at that time lasted a whole month.

In World War I, the highway was completely abandoned.