Electrification of Saint Petersburg Railway Division

RZhD, OktZhD, SPbZhD, Russia Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky–Beloostrov through Sestroretsk Vyborg Zelenogorsk Solnechnoye line Sestroretsk spur line (1871-1873) line Miller's line (1873-1886) To Sestroretsk 42.7 43.0 Beloostrov Pesochny Lanskaya Finlyandsky Rail Term. 42.9 Novoye shosse Beloostrov 39.6 Sestra crossover Sestra line Sestroretsk spur line (1871-1873) line Miller's line (1873-1886) 39.4 Beloostrov (1871-1886) 39.1 Sestroretsk (1871-1886, 1916-1924) line Sestroretsk spur line (1871-1873) line Miller's line (1873-1886) line Zavodskaya line (1916-1924) 39.3 Old line of road M-10 Sestr. Saint Petersburg Vyborg 34.4 Dyuny crossover M10 Line Sestroretsk line Primorskaya railway Dyuny Shkolnaya 38.1 Zavodskaya sestra cr. Z. s. 37.7 Kurort 36.4 Sestroretsky Kyrort Miller's pier 36.3 Line Miller's line (1873-1886) 36.2 Sestroretsk 36.1 Yermolovsky prospect Sestroretsk 35.7 Sestroretsk armory 35.2 Voskov street Sestroretsk Line Dubki horse-iron road (1847-bf 1870) Sestroretsk armory (1847-bf 1870) Dubkovsky pier 35.1 Sestroretsk railway station 34.7 Liteyny bridge Vodoslivnoy channel Vyborg Saint Petersburg 34.4 Sestroretsky crossover M10 highway 33.3 Razliv 31.5 Tarkhovka 18.1 Tarkhovskaya street Tarkhovka 30.1 Alexandrovskaya 29.0 Gorskaya 28.9 Gorskaya crossover KAD 28.3 Export goods for Spb Dam To Kronshtadt before 1928 28.3 Lisy Nos, before 1928 25.3 Lisy Nos 21.8 Morskaya 1.5 2.3 North-West Thermal Power Plant 18.2 Olgino 18.1 Konnolakhtinsky prospect Olgino 17.1 Lakhta 17.1 Granichnaya street Lakhta 15.5 Lakhtinsky crossover Lakhtyinsky r. 13.0 Yakhtennaya 12.6 Planerny crossover Planernaya st. Kirovskaya Small October railway Sub Staraya Derevnya Line 4 10,4 Staraya Derevnya 10.3 Torfyanaya doroga 9.4 Serebryakov pereulok 8.5 Akademik Shimansky street 8.3 Chyornaya rechka cr. Chyornaya R. Severny factory 7.7 Novaya Derevnya Objects 1893 line Ozerki line Ozerki Kolomuagi Skachki line Tovarnaya line Primorsky - goods Primorsky Rail Terminal 7.5 7.5 Kolomyazsky prospect 7.4 line Tovarnaya line Serdobolsky stop Finlyandsky Rail Terminal 7.2 Omskaya street Vyborg Beloostrov Udelnaya 5.0 Lanskaya St Lanskaya station civil engineering works To Kushelevka 4.2 Zemledenchesky crossover Zemledench. 4.0 1st Murinsky crossover 1st Murinsky To Kushelevka line Tovarnaya line Primorsky - goods Primorsky Rail Terminal Serdobolsky stop 3.0 Flyugov post (1924-1931) line Tovarnaya line Finlyandsky Rail Terminal Baburin post 3.5 Kantemirovsky crossover Kantem. line Tovarnaya line Primorsky Rail Terminal Flyugov post 3.2 3.1 A. Matrosov crossover A. Matr. st. 2.7 Lesnoy crossover Lesnoy prospect 1.7 Traction Depot 1.6 Locomotive Depot 1.6 Locomotivnoye Depot Finlyandsky - Goods Sub Ploshchad Lenina Line 1 0.0 Finlyandsky Rail Terminal Saint Petersburg Distances in kilometers

Electrification of Saint Petersburg Railway Division. Direct lines from Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky–Vyborg and Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky–Beloostrov through Sestroretsk continued to work with steam haulage after the Russian Revolution up to World War II.

First project

In 1930, the first project for electrification of a railroad line of seashore–Beloostrov rings was developed. But the state boundary was in the urban-type settlement Beloostrov, and the authorities did not improve the transport accessibility area. They rightly believed that the availability of suburban passenger electric trains would increase the number of summer residents in direction of traffic.

Implementation

Without waiting for the end of the war, the chief of department of electrification of the October Railway Kirillov made an application for electrification of the seashore–Beloostrov rings and directions to station Terioki addressed to the Leningrad city town committee VKP managing transport department. After the war, the state border was pushed to a distance of more than 100 kilometers (over Vyborg) and the electrification program was not hampered.

Documents

Documents were issued on the basis of which the electrification of the Leningrad – Zelenogorsk line was authorized:

• Decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 858-316, dated 4 March 1950;
• The order of the Minister of Communications Beschev B. P. No. 176/Ц dated 17 May 1950;
• The final draft prepared by the Institute Lengiprotrans, engineers Keltuyala and Mazursky.

Timeline of electrification

• Finlyandsky Rail Terminal–Zelenogorsk – 1951
• Zelenogorsk–Ushkovo – 1952
• Ushkovo–Roshchino – 1954
• Roshchino–Kirillovskoye – 1968
• Kirillovskoye–Vyborg – 1969
• Vyborg–Luzhayka – 1977
• International connection – 1978

Picture gallery

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  Electric locomotive with "Sibelius" train (Saint-Petersburg, Russia – Helsinki, Finland) in 2007
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  Train under the name NEVA at the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2009
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  Train under the name Change at the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2009

See also

• History of rail transport in Russia
• Miller's line
• Rail transport in the Soviet Union
• Railway electrification in the Soviet Union
• Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway