Yekaterinburg railway station explained

Yekaterinburg-Passazirskiy
Type:Sverdlovsk Railway terminal
Address:Yekaterinburg, Russia
Coordinates:56.8589°N 60.6042°W
Platform:7 (6 island platforms)
Tracks:15
Parking:yes
Opened:1878[1]
Code:250302[2]
Owned:Russian Railways (Sverdlovsk Railway)
Zone:0

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

Trains and destinations

International

Train number Train name Destination Operated by
001М/002Щ Rossiya
Россия
Moscow (Yaroslavsky)
Vladivostok (cars: Pyongyang,
Tumangang)
Russian Railways
003З/004З Moscow (Yaroslavsky)
Beijing (Main)
Runs through Mongolia
China Railway
005Щ/006Щ Moscow (Yaroslavsky)
Ulaanbaatar (cars: Erdenet)
Russian Railways
Ulaanbataar Railway
019Ч/020Щ Vostok
Восток
Moscow (Yaroslavsky)
Beijing (Main)
Russian Railways
063Б/064Б Minsk (cars: Brest)
Novosibirsk
Belarusian Railways
089У/090У Zauralye
Зауралье
Moscow (Kazansky)
Kurgan (cars: Chelyabinsk,
Novokuznetsk, Petropavl)
Russian Railways
304Ц/305Щ Kazan (Main)
Almaty (Almaty-2)
(cars: Bishkek (Bishkek-2), Tashkent)
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy
Kyrgyz Railways
Uzbek Railways

Notes and References

  1. Железнодорожные станции СССР. Справочник. — М.: Транспорт, 1981
  2. Web site: История электрификации железных дорог СССР.
  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. http://www.nnov-airport.ru/rus/ekaterinburg_wokzal.html Факты о станции Екатеринбург-Пассажирский