Southern Railways (Ukraine)
Overview | |
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Headquarters | Kharkiv |
Locale | Ukraine |
Dates of operation | 1869 – present– |
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Length | 3,000 km (1,900 mi) |
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Website | uz |
The Southern Railways (SR) (
Ukrzaliznytsia railroad company and is headquartered in Kharkiv. Southern Railways's route map covers all railroads of the Kharkiv, Poltava and some railroads in other oblasts (regions
) as well.
As of 2008, the Southern Railways operate 3,000 kilometres (1,864 mi) of track. The Southern Railways company contributes a large role as a transit railway in the routes of Russia-Crimea and Russia-Caucasus.
History
This regional railways was formed in 1907 soon after a merge of the Kursk-Kharkiv-Sevastopol railways and the Kharkiv-Mykolaiv railways. The company traces its history to the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railways that was established in 1869.
In March 2024 railway stations of Southern Railways were being renamed to comply with derussification and decommunization laws.[1]
Structure
- Subdivisions
- Sumy
- Kharkiv
- Poltava
- Kupiansk
- Others
- Central House of Science and Technology (Kharkiv subdivision)
- Mykola Hohol Sanatorium
Directors
Southern Railways
- 1907–1907 Johann-Theodore "Fyodor" Schmidt
- 1907–1908 Viktor Rozanov
- 1909–1910 Ippolit Ivanovskiy
- 1910–1913 Vladislav Stulginskiy
- 1913–1916 Boris Voskresenskiy
- 1916–1917 Boris Yazykov
- 1920–1920 Aleksei Ivanov (commissar)
- 1920–1921 A.Hlavatskyi
- 1921–1922 V.Nauman
- 1923–1926 A.Ivanov
- 1920s I.Myronov
- 1927–1928 Viktor Paniashvili
- 1928–1930 P.Bandura
- 1931–1933 Yakiv Livshyts
- 1933–1934 Mykola Levchenko
- 1934–1934 Oleksiy Zorin
Southern Railway
- 1934–1937 Petro Shushkov
- 1937–1938 Ilarion Maliy
- 1938–1944 Semen Kutafin
- 1944–1945 Kostiantyn Danylenko
- 1945–1954 Petro Dmytryuk
- 1954–1959 Kostiantyn Kozhukhar
- 1959–1972 Hryhoriy Holovchenko
- 1972–1976 Mykola Konaryev
- 1976–1983 Oleksiy Shutov
- 1983–1995 Oleksandr Puchko
- 1995–1997 Oleh Kryuchkov
- 1997–2000 Vasyl Nesvit
- 2000–2005 Viktor Ostapchuk
- 2005–2005 Hryhoriy Boiko
- 2005–2012 Viktor Ostapchuk
- 2012–2014 Oleksandr Filatov
- 2014– Mykola Umanets
References
- ^ "Railway stations were renamed in Poltava Oblast". Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). March 4, 2024. Retrieved March 4, 2024.