Yamal Railway

Yamal Railway
Company type	Joint-stock company
Industry	Rail transport
Founded	2003
Headquarters	Novy Urengoy, Russia
Revenue	$36.9 million (2017)
Operating income	$711,673 (2017)
Net income	$1.12 million (2017)
Total assets	$13.6 million (2017)
Total equity	$7.1 million (2017)

Yamal Railway is a railway operator in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia.^[2]^[3]

Main information

The company was created in 2003 by the Yamal administration and Russian Railways.

The main activity is the operation of the lines Korotchaevo – Novy Urengoy–Nadym and Korotchaevo–Novy Urengoy–Yamburg.^[4]^[2]

Projects of the Yamal railway company:

The completion and restoration of the railway line Obskaya–Salekhard–Nadym;
The construction of new railway line midnight – art Ob-2 (the project was suspended in February 2012 in the absence of reliable data on the availability of industrial mineral reserves on the Eastern slope of the
Urals
);
The completion and restoration of the line Korotchaevo–Igarka.^[2]

The branch Novy Urengoy–Pangody–Nadym was restored in the 1970s, part of the Transpolar mainline.^[5]

Plans

The company develops the Obskaya – Polunochnoye railway construction project along the Eastern slope of the

Ural mountains

. Investment substantiation for construction of railway track prepares Saint-Petersburg company. Preliminary costs will be not less than 62 billion.

The company also expects to recover the Labytnangi – Nadym Transpolar mainline, which was abandoned in 1953.

Construction of the Obskaya – Polunochnoye railway and full recovery of Transpolar railway required the construction of a bridge across the

Ob river. The agreement on construction of the combined rail and road bridge across the Ob was signed in December 2008 by the administration of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Federal Agency of railway transport of Russia.^[6]