Southern Railways (Ukraine)

(Redirected from Southern Ukrainian Railways) State-owned railway company in UkraineFor other uses, see Southern Railway.

Southern Railways
Overview

Headquarters	Kharkiv
Locale	Ukraine
Dates of operation	1869 (155 years ago) (1869) – present–
Technical
Length	3,000 km (1,900 mi)
Other
Website	uz.gov.ua

The Southern Railways (SR) (Ukrainian: Південна залізниця, Russian: Южная железная дорога) is a composing part of Ukraine's Ukrzaliznytsia railroad company and is headquartered in Kharkiv. Southern Railways's route map covers all railroads of the Kharkiv, Poltava and some railroads in other oblasts (regions) as well.

As of 2008, the Southern Railways operate 3,000 kilometres (1,864 mi) of track. The Southern Railways company contributes a large role as a transit railway in the routes of Russia-Crimea and Russia-Caucasus.

History

This regional railways was formed in 1907 soon after a merge of the Kursk-Kharkiv-Sevastopol railways and the Kharkiv-Mykolaiv railways. The company traces its history to the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railways that was established in 1869.

In March 2024, railway stations of Southern Railways were being renamed to comply with derussification and decommunization laws.

Structure

Subdivisions

Sumy
Kharkiv
Poltava
Kupiansk

Others

Central House of Science and Technology (Kharkiv subdivision)
Mykola Hohol Sanatorium

Directors

Southern Railways

1907–1907 Johann-Theodore "Fyodor" Schmidt
1907–1908 Viktor Rozanov
1909–1910 Ippolit Ivanovskiy
1910–1913 Vladislav Stulginskiy
1913–1916 Boris Voskresenskiy
1916–1917 Boris Yazykov
1920–1920 Aleksei Ivanov (commissar)
1920–1921 A.Hlavatskyi
1921–1922 V.Nauman
1923–1926 A.Ivanov
1920s I.Myronov
1927–1928 Viktor Paniashvili
1928–1930 P.Bandura
1931–1933 Yakiv Livshyts
1933–1934 Mykola Levchenko
1934–1934 Oleksiy Zorin

Southern Railway

1934–1937 Petro Shushkov
1937–1938 Ilarion Maliy
1938–1944 Semen Kutafin
1944–1945 Kostiantyn Danylenko
1945–1954 Petro Dmytryuk
1954–1959 Kostiantyn Kozhukhar
1959–1972 Hryhoriy Holovchenko
1972–1976 Mykola Konaryev
1976–1983 Oleksiy Shutov
1983–1995 Oleksandr Puchko
1995–1997 Oleh Kryuchkov
1997–2000 Vasyl Nesvit
2000–2005 Viktor Ostapchuk
2005–2005 Hryhoriy Boiko
2005–2012 Viktor Ostapchuk
2012–2014 Oleksandr Filatov
2014– Mykola Umanets

References

"Railway stations were renamed in Poltava Oblast". Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). March 4, 2024. Retrieved March 4, 2024.

External links

Ukrzalznytsia official site Archived 2021-04-10 at the Wayback Machine

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Regional branches	Lviv Odesa Cisdnieper (Prydnipro)¹ Southern Southwestern Donets¹
¹ — partially disused because of the Russian war in Ukraine

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