Railroad Name: | Russian: Moscow Railway Московская железная дорога |
Locale: | Central Russia, Russian Federation |
Start Year: | 1959 |
End Year: | present |
Length: | 3275km (2,035miles) |
Hq City: | Moscow |
Website: | http://mzd.rzd.ru/ |
Moscow Railway (Russian: Московская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of Russian Railways that handles half of Russia's suburban railway operations and a quarter of the country's passenger traffic. As of 2009 the railway, which has its headquarters near Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow, employed 73 600 people.[1] It manages railway services in much of Central Russia, including Moscow and Moscow Oblast (all railways except the railroad to Saint Petersburg, which is managed by October Railway), Smolensk, Vladimir, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk, and Kursk Oblasts.