Sukhumi railway station

Sukhumi Станция Сухум Аҟәа
Abkhazian Railway terminal
View of the station from Privokzalnaya square.
Location	Sukhumi  Abkhazia
Owned by	Russian Railways (Abkhazian Railway)
Platforms	2 (1 island platforms)
Tracks	6
Construction
Parking	yes
Other information
Station code	573909
Fare zone	0
History
Opened	1940[1]
Services
Preceding station   Abkhazian Railway   Following station

Sukhumi (Russian: Станция Сухум, Abkhaz: Аҟәа) is a railway station in the capital of Abkhazia — Sukhumi.

History

The railway came to Abkhazia in the early 1930s. In 1940, Abkhazian railway opened from Inguri to Sukhumi and then, in 1942, the Sukhumi — Adler line was opened.

In 1949, Abkhazian Railway became part of the Transcaucasian Railway. The current station building was built in the mid-1950s.

In the beginning of 1992 the following trains were passing Sukhumi:

• Moscow — Tbilisi
• Moscow — Tsqaltubo
• Moscow — Batumi
• Moscow — Sukhumi
• Moscow — Yerevan
• Rostov-on-Don — Yerevan
• Kiev — Tbilisi
• St.Petersburg — Sukhumi
• Sochi — Yerevan

On 5 December 2002, on the bridge over the Psou river was the train Sukhumi — Sochi. In 2004, on the Abkhazian section of the railway (from Psou to Sukhumi) full-scale restoration work began, carried out by Russian construction companies. Train service was suspended during construction.^[2]

On 10 September 2004, Abkhazian railway the Sukhumi — Moscow train began operations.

Trains

• Moscow — Sukhumi^[3]
• St.Petersburg — Sukhumi
• Belgorod — Sukhumi

Photos

• 
  Tracks on the station
• 
  Station building
• 
  Station building
• 
  Moscow—Sukhumi train on platform 1

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  Station building

References

1. Железнодорожные станции СССР. Справочник. Мoscow: Транспорт. 1981.
2. Website
3. "Moscow-Sukhumi train". RZD.

External links

• Abkhazia Railways

Coordinates: 43°00′26″N 40°59′45″E / 43.0072°N 40.9959°E