Donets Railway

Donets Railway
Ukrainian: Донецька залізниця
Russian: Донецкая железная дорога
Map of the system (Russian)
Locale  Ukraine
Dates of operation 15 May 1953[1]–
Predecessor North Donets Railways
South Donets Railways
Track gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
Length 3,275 km (2,030 mi)
Headquarters Lyman (before 2015 – Donetsk)
Website Click here

The Donets Railway (Ukrainian: Донецька залізниця) is a railway operator in eastern Ukraine, particularly in the Donbas area (Donets coal basin). The railway is one of six territorial railways owned and operated by Ukrainian Railways and is under partial control of Ukrainian government due to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

Due to the de facto war in Donbass, only portions of Donetsk Railway are operational, such as the Krasny Lyman Directorate. In December 2014, a regional branch of Ukrzaliznytsia Donetsk Railway was created and the headquarters was moved from Donetsk to Lyman.

General information

The railway was created in 1953 by merging North-Donets Railway (Artemivsk) and South-Doents Railway (Yasynuvata).

The railway serves the most important for the country's industrial heartland of Donbas-Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as partially Zaporizhia, Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts (Ukrainian regions), thus combining in a single transport conveyor Donbas and the Dnipro, the Central regions of the Russia and Ukraine, the Volga region and the Caucasus. The railway has two border transfer stations on the Russia-Ukraine border over which it does not have a control due to war conditions. Those are Krasna Mohyla (Chervonopartyzansk), Kvashyne, Ilovaisk, and Lantrativka, Troitske Raion.

In the south, Donetsk Railways has access to Azov sea through the commercial port of Mariupol, as well as access to the largest industrial center of Ukraine — Mariupol. Donetsk Railway's length is 13 percent of Ukrainian railway network total length. At the same time, its part, accounts for 47 percent of loading and 36 percent of discharge from all Ukrainian railways. The railway is located on the area of 57,000 km2.

Donetsk Railway is the main mode of transport, serving passengers and a large amount of different industrial facilities: coal mines, metallurgical, coke-chemical and pipe mills, machine-building and machine-building plants, chemical, light, food and other industries.

In December 2014 the order of Ukraine government stated the territory of Donetsk Railway and its affiliated companies, located in the state-controlled Ukrainian territory, were transferred to the temporary administration of Southern and Cisdnieper Railways.[2]

Structure

The Donetsk Railway administrative division consists of three railway transportation directorates all located in Lyman, namely:

Previously, two other directorates also existed:

The main railway hubs of Donetsk railway: Yasynuvata, Donetsk, Mariupol, Debaltseve, Ilovaysk, Luhansk, Popasna, Kondrashevska-Nova, Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Kostiantynivka, Mykytivka, Lyman, Chervona Mohyla.[2][3]

Russian invasion of Ukraine (2014-ongoing)

Due to Russian occupation of Ukraine, the rest of railways and stations were given under the temporary administration of the Cisdnieper and Southern Railways.[4]

Currently, southern branches are under the Cisdnieper Railways administration, while the northern branches are still being operated by the Krasny Lyman Directorate. In 2016, there was renewed operations on a separate branch in Luhansk, which became separated due to the conflict.[5]

On 28 May 2016, railway servicemen who were working for the Donetsk People's Republic in Yasynuvata protested against failure of the government of Ukraine to pay their salaries.[6][7] On 28 July, it was revealed that the protests were legitimate and the government owed the workers money for services rendered. This involved a process of restructuring and an issue that the Ukrainian government is trying to resolve.[8] The spokesperson confirmed that all personnel still works at the Donetsk Railway of Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) and the government of Ukraine does not acknowledge their employment anywhere but for the Donetsk Railway.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Official website. Donetsk Railway.
  2. 1 2 "История железных дорог. Донецкая железная дорога". Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
  3. ↑ Деякі питання функціонування державного підприємства... | від 29.12.2014 № 1284-р (Сторінка 1 з 2)
  4. ↑ Ukrainian law from December 2014
  5. ↑ In Starobilsk launched a train after two year break (У Старобільську запустили потяг після дворічної перерви). Espreso. 29 May 2016
  6. ↑ Railway servicemen who work for the DPR request money from Ukraine (Залізничники, що працюють на «ДНР», вимагають грошей від України). glavcom. 30 May 2016
  7. ↑ Railway servicemen of "DPR" request that their salary was paid by Ukraine. Espreso. 30 May 2016
  8. 1 2 Syzov, V. How much coal Ukraine exports from the occupied territory? – research (Скільки вугілля Україна вивозить з окупованої території? - дослідження). Novosti Donbassa. 28 July 2016
  • Official website
  • "Расписание пассажирских поездов по станциям". Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
  • "Музей истории и развития Донецкой железной дороги". Archived from the original on 2012-11-26.
  • "Расписание пригородных электропоездов по станциям". Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
  • "Железнодорожный портал Донецкой железной дороги". Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
  • "Детский лагерь "Буревестник" Донецкой железной дороги". Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
  • "Донецкая железная дорога". Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
  • "Донецкая область. Досье". Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
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