Museum Stations

EXHIBITION

In 2014, the employees at Moscow Railways celebrated the 55th anniversary of the creation of the capital’s railway line within its current borders. Continuing the tradition of preserving the historical and cultural heritage of the past, the rail workers continue to work on creating museum exhibits at the railway stations in the Tula region.

For the anniversary of the railway line, large-scale work was completed on the reconstruction of the track infrastructure at Yasnogorsk station in the Tula region of Moscow Railway, work which imparted an exemplary aesthetic appearance to the station complex. A sculptural composition dedicated to the Empress Catherine the Great was installed on the station territory, and a park laid out. The historical theme is supported by the museum exhibit "House of the Station Master" and there is an exhibit dedicated to I.A. Golovin, who founded workshops for the production of agricultural machinery here in 1895.

HOW TO GET THERE

Take trains plying the Moscow-Yasnogorsk and Tula-Yasnogorsk routes.

HISTORY OF THE STATION

The birth of the city of Yasnogorsk is closely connected with the construction of the Moscow-Kursk railway (1864-1868).

In 1864, at the insistence of the chief manager of communications and public buildings Pavel Petrovich Melnikov, who later became Russia’s first Minister of Communications, Emperor Alexander II signed a decree to begin the construction of the Moscow-Tula-Orel railway line at state expense. Just three years after this important document was signed, the first trains moving from the capital to the south of Russia marked a new stage in the development of the small settlement of Laptevo, which is located on the Serpukhov-Tula section. In 1867, Laptevo station (now Yasnogorsk) was opened.

Laptevo owes its further development to the manufacturer I.A. Golovin, who founded workshops for the production of ploughs and other agricultural machinery in 1895. A large settlement grew around these workshops, which later became the huge Yasnogorsk Machine-Building Plant and the main enterprise in the expanding city. In 1924, the settlement of Laptevo, located near the station of the same name, became the administrative centre of the newly formed Laptevsky District. In 1938, it received the status of a workers’ settlement and in 1958 it became a city. In 1965, it was renamed Yasnogorsk.