1. Moscow line (Moscow)

Structure: 8 sections - Bryansk, Kursk-Orel, Moscow, Pavelets, Smolensk, Tula, Moscow-Kaluga, Moscow-Ryazan.
Line administration: Moscow.
Location: on territory of Moscow, Smolensk, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk regions, on part of territory of Belgorod, Vladimir, Penza, Lipetsk regions and Mordovia.
Creation: in 1959 as a result of unification of some lines (Moscow-Ryazan, Moscow-Kursk-Donbass, Moscow-Belt, Kalinin, Moscow-Kiev and Northern).
Operating length: 9281 km including electrified 4311 km (1990). It borders on October, Belorussia, South Western, Southern, South Eastern, Kuibyshev, Gorky, Northern lines.
Main stations: Moscow railway junction with passenger, cargo and marshalling stations; railway-junctions on crossing of Big Moscow Circular railway (BMC) with radial directions including largest marshalling yards Orekhovo-Zuevo and Bekasovo and aslo railway junctions Tula, Orel, Kursk, Uzlovaya, Ozherelye, Rybnoe, Bryansk, Sukhinichi, Vyazma, Smolensk, Unecha, Lgov, Kaluga, Fayansovaya, Ryazhsk, Pavelez-Tulskiy..
The line is confered a Lenin order (1966).

Structure: 6 sections - Yaroslavl, Vologda, Solvyshegodsk, Arkhangelsk, Sosnogorsk, Vorkuta.
Line administration: Yaroslavl.
Location: in the North and North-East of Russia, on territory of Polar Ural and in nothern part of Ob river basin in West Siberia.
Creation: in 1959 as a result of unification of Yaroslavl, Northern and Pechora lines.
Operating length: 6050 km including electrified 1320 km (1990). Ir borders on Moscow, October and Gorky lines.
Main stations: Yaroslavl-Main, Losta, Solvyshegodsk, Shar'ya, Arkhangelsk-City; main cargo stations -   Cherepovets, Novoyaroslavskaya, Inta, Vorkuta.

Structure: 3 sections - Gorky, Izhevsk, Kazan.
Line administration: Nizhni Novgorod.
Location: on territory Nizhegorod, Vladimir, Kirov regions, partly on territory of Mordovia, Tatariya, Mariy El, Bashkiria, Chuvashia, Udmurtia republics, Ryazan, Perm, Sverdlovsk, Ulyanovsk regions.
Creation: in 1961 as a result of unification of Gorky and Kazan lines, oldest lines (Moscow-Nizhegorod, Moscow-Kazan, Vyatka-Dvina and Northern) were in their composition.
Operating length: 5733 km including electrified ? km (1988). It borders on Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Northern, Kuibyshev lines.
Main stations: Vladimir, Novki, Kovrov, Gorky-Sortirovochny, Kotelnich, Lyangasovo, Kirov, Murom, Arzamas, Krasny Uzel, Kanat, Sviyazhsk, Zeleny Dol, Yudino, Agryz, Armyaz', Balezino.
The line is confered a Working Red Button order (1971).

Structure: 6 sections - Perm, Sverdlovsk, Nizhni Tagil, Serov, Tyumen, Surgut.
Line administration: Yekaterinburg.
Location: on territory of North-Western, Middle Ural and Udmurtia.
Creation: in 1953 as a result of unification of Perm and Sverdlovsk lines.
Operating length: 7147 km including electrified 3654 km (1990). It borders on Gorky, South Uralian, West Siberian lines.
Main stations: Sverdlovsk-Sortirovochny, Perm-Sortirovochnaya, Voinovka, Bogdanovich, Smychka, Chusovskaya, Egorshino, Serov.
The line is confered a Lenin order (1978) and an October Revolution order (1989).

Structure: 4 sections - Omsk, Novosibirsk, Altai, Kemerovo.
Line administration: Novosibirsk.
Location: on territory of Kemerovo, Tomsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk regions, Altai territory and partly Kokchetav and Pavlodar regions in Kazakhstan.
Creation: in 1961 as a result of unification of Omsk and Tomsk lines, in 1997 Kemerovo line was joined.
Operating length: 6181 km including electrified more than 3000 km (1990). It borders on South Uralian, Sverdlovsk, Krasnoyarsk lines, also on lines of Kazakhstan.
Main stations: Omsk, Kombinatskaya, Barabinsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Tomsk, Taiga, Yurga, Topki, Kemerovo, Leninsk-Kuznetskiy, Bedovo, Artyshta, Novokuznetsk, main cargo stations - Vkhodnaya, Moskovka, Inskaya, Altaiskaya, Taiga, Kemerovo-Sortirovochnoe, Topki.
The line is confered a Lenin order (1966).

Structure: 2 sections - Abakan and Krasnoyarsk.
Line administration: Krasnoyarsk.
Location: in the south of Krasnoyarsk territory, in Khakasia, partly on territory of Kemerovo and Irkutsk regions.
Creation: in 1936 as a result of singling out from East Siberian line (excluding 1961 - 1979).
Operating length: 3167 km including electrified more than 1000 km (1990). It borders on West Siberian and East Siberian lines.
Main stations: Krasnoyarsk, Achinsk, Abakan, Kansk, Mariinsk, Ilanskaya, main cargo station: Krasnoyarsk-Vostochny.

Structure: 2 sections - East Siberian and Severobaikalsk.
Line administration: Irkutsk.
Location: on territory Irkutsk and Chita regions and also Buryatia.
Creation: in 1934 as a result of singling out from Tomsk line.
Operating length: 3728 km including electrified more than 3200 km (1998). It borders on Krasnoyarsk, Zabaikalsk and Far Eastern lines.
Main stations: Taishet, Zima, Nizhneudinsk, Cheremkhovo, Korshunikha, Kitoy, Sukhovskaya, Irkutsk-Sortirovochny, Ulan-Ude, Lena, Bratsk, Severobaikalsk.
The line is confered a Working Red Button order (1976).

Structure: 3 sections - Chita, Mogocha and Skovorodino.
Line administration: Chita.
Location: on territory of Chita and Amur regions.
Creation: in 1959 as a result of unification of Amur and Transbaikal lines.
Operating length: 3436 km including electrified 2296 km (1998). It borders on East Siberian and Far East lines.
Main stations: Petrovskiy Zavod, Chita, Karymskaya, Zabaikalsk, Shilka, Chernyshevsk, Zilovo, Mogocha, Yerofei Pavlovich, Urusha, Skovorodino, Magdagachi, Shimanovskaya, Belogorsk, Zavitaya.
The line is confered a Working Red Button order (1976).

Structure: 4 sections - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk and Tynda.
Line administration: Khabarovsk.
Location: on territory Khabarovsk and Primorski territories, amur region and Sakha-Yakutia republic.
Creation: in 1936 as a result of subdivision of Ussurian line.
Operating length: 6003 km including electrified more than 1300 km (1998). It borders on East Siberian and Transbaikal lines.
Main stations: Arkhara, Berkakit, Bikin, Bira, Birobidzhan-1, Vladivostok, Vysogornaya, Vyazemskaya, Komsomolks-on-Amur, Novy Urgal, Ruzhino, Sovetskaya Gavan, Tikhookeanskaya, Tynda, Ussuriisk, Fevralsk, Khabarovsk-1, main cargo stations: Nakhodka-Vostochnaya, Khabarovsk-2, Komsomolsk-Sortirovochny, Pervaya Rechka, Vanino.
The line is confered an October Revolution order (1971).

Structure: 5 sections - Ruzaevka, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Kuibyshev, Bashkiria.
Line administration: Samara.
Location: on territory of Tataria, Bashkiria, Mordovia republics, Ryazan, Penza, Tambov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regions.
Creation: in 1936 from Samara-Zlatoust line and number of Moscow-Kazan line railway by Kuibyshev name was created and from 1953 it has modern name.
Operating length: 4835 km including electrified ? km (1990). It borders on Moscow, Gorky, South Uralian, South Eastern, Privolzhskaya lines and Kazakhstan railways.
Main stations: Penza-2, Penza-3, Ruzaevka, Kinel, Syzran-1, Octyabrsk, Samara, Dema, Ufa, Ulyanovsk-Central, Tolyatti.
The line is confered a Lenin order (1971).

Structure: 6 sections - Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Petropavlovsk, Zlatoust, Kartaly, Orenburg.
Line administration: Chelyabinsk.
Location: on territory Bashkiria republic, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Orenburg regions, parts Kuibyshev and Sverdlovsk regions in Russia and Kazakhastan.
Creation: in 1934 as a result of division if Perm line.
Operating length: 4935 km including electrified ? km (1990). It borders on Sverdlovsk, West Siberian, Kuibyshev lines and Kazakhstan railways.
Main stations: Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Petropavlovsk, Troitsk, Kartaly, Magnitogorsk, Orsk, Orenburg, Berdyaush.
The line is confered an October Revolution order (1971).

Structure: without sections.
Line administration: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
Location: on territory of Sakhalin island.
Creation: in 1992 as a result of singling out from Far Eastern line.
Operating length: 1072 km, track width 1067 mmm. It borders on Far Eastern line by train ferry Vanino - Kholmsk.
Main stations: Korsakov, Kholmks, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Cargo around lines.

1. Kirov detour: Lyangasovo - Pozdino (16 km). It's 10 km shorter the main way.
2. Sverdlovsk junction detour: Khrustalnaya - Reshety - Sedelnikovo - Aramil - Kosulino (77 km). It's 14 km longer the main way.
3. Omsk detour: Irtysh bridge - Moskovka (16 km), by the southern outskirts of the city. It's 2 km longer the main way.
4. Chik embranchment: west to Chik the third track pass about 1 km far from another ones.
5. Novosibirsk detour: Ob - Kleshchikha - Inskaya - Zherebtsovo - Sokur (66 km). It's 13 km longer the main way.
6. Krasnoyarsk detour: Bugach - Krasnoyarsk-Severny - Zykovo (41 km). It's 2 km longer the main way.
7. Taishet detour: will pass to the south. It's been building.
8. Irkutsk detour: Irkutsk-Sortirovochny - Goncharovo (21 km). It's 6 km shorter the main way.
9. Obluch'e embranchment: west of Obluch'e station for 2 km even and odd lines describe loops with different radii moving away roughly 1 km apart. Odd direction is approximately 2 km longer.
10. Amur bridge detour near Khabarovsk: Pokrovskiy - tunnel under Amur - 8520 km. It's 1 km longer the main way. Also it's used for odd passenger trains.
11. Khor bridge detour: Kiya - Askan - Podkhorenok (16 km). It's equally the main way by kilometrage. Also it's used for odd passenger trains.
12. Bikin embranchment: south to Bikin for 6 km even and odd lines pass by different banks of Bikin river. They are equally by kilometrage.
13. Dalnerechensk detour: Ebergard - Dalnerechensk-2 - Lazo (32 km). It's 8 km longer the main way.
14. Ussurian bridge detour: Ruzhino - Lesozavodsk-2 - post 1634 km (13 km). It's 1 km longer the way. Also it's used for odd passenger trains.

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