Privolzhskaya Railway

Advertisement of Ryazan-Uralsk Railway, 1913

The Privolzhskaya Railway (Приволжская железная дорога; "Volga Railway") is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Saratov. It serves the Saratov, Volgograd, and Astrakhan regions of Russia. Its three branches are headquartered in Saratov, Volgograd, and Astrakhan. The railway route length totals 4236,8 km. The network has 31 146 employees (as of 2009). A short stretch of the railway crosses the territory of Kazakhstan. It was established in 1953 by the merger of the Stalingrad Railway and Ryazan-Uralsk Railway and was recently extended to Olya, a port on the Caspian Sea.

External links

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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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