Yekaterinburg railway station

Yekaterinburg-Passazirskiy
Sverdlovsk Railway terminal

View of the station from platform 1.
Location Yekaterinburg, Russia
Owned by Russian Railways (Sverdlovsk Railway)
Platforms 7 (6 island platforms)
Tracks 15
Construction
Parking yes
Other information
Station code 250302[1]
Fare zone 0
History
Opened 1878[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

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, Kiev, Mogilev, Neryungri, Pavlodar, Pyongyang, Ruzaevka, Sovetskaya Gavan, Tommot, and Erdenet.

References

  1. ↑ http://parovoz.com/history/electrification/1969-71.php
  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
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Coordinates: 56°51′32″N 60°36′15″E / 56.85889°N 60.60417°E / 56.85889; 60.60417

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