South Urals Railway

Train station in Chelyabinsk

The Yuzhno-Uralskaya Railway (Южно-Уральская железная дорога; "South Ural Railway") is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chelyabinsk. It operates the railways in the Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, and Sverdlovsk regions as well as the Republic of Bashkortostan. Their total length is 4935 km. Several stretches of the railway cross the territory of what is now Kazakhstan.

The railway was part of the Ural, or Perm, Railway until 1934. The Chelyabinsk-Yekaterinburg line was constructed in the 1880s and early 1890s as part of the Trans-Siberian Railway (its southern route). The Orenburg-Samara line was opened in 1877. Several other lines were added during Joseph Stalin's industrialization to serve the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and other newly built factories.

External links

Official website

Russian Railways

Russia	Kaliningrad October Moscow Gorky South Eastern North Caucasus Crimean Volga Kuybyshev South Urals Northern Sverdlovsk Yamal Norilsk West Siberian Krasnoyarsk East Siberian Trans-Baikal Yakutian Far Eastern

Abkhazia	Abkhazian

Armenia	South Caucasus

Planned	Tuvan

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