January
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31 January · 2022First female engine driver at Russian Railways’ holding takes out train
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25 January · 2021Russian Railways launched a high-speed cross-border freight service from Western Siberia to Northern Europe
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23 January · 2013Lastochka electric train made first run on 23 January 2013
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23 January · 20098300-kW GT1-001 gas turbine locomotive the world's first to pull 15K-ton freight train
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12 January · 1936Lokomotiv sports society established
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31 January · 1758Mechanical engineer, mathematician, founder of the theory of machines and mechanisms, Director of the Department of Railways of Russia in 1819-1822 Agustín de Betancourt was born on this day
February
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06 February · 2019Freight traffic opens to the Azov and Black Sea ports bypassing Krasnodar
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19 February · 1955Regular railway service Moscow – Berlin opens
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09 February · 1945The Izhevsk-Balezino line opens, linking the Russia’s North, Urals, and Siberia
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07 February · 1943First train from the mainland arrives in besieged Leningrad
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18 February · 1918Train service from Kievsky railway station commenced
April
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12 April · 2022New bridge opens across Areda River on Trans-Siberian
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10 April · 1891Alexander III issues the imperial decree for the Great Siberian Route (Transsib) to be laid across the Russian Empire
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02 April · 1836The resolution adopted to build the Russia’s first Tsarskoye Selo passenger railway
July
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28 July · 2021New Baikal Tunnel opens on BAM
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30 July · 2010First "Sapsan" train left Moscow for Nizhny Novgorod
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08 July · 1974Construction of Baikal-Amur Mainline begins
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12 July · 1941First train crosses the Amur via a 7 km underwater tunnel
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20 July · 1857Grand opening of St. Petersburg – Peterhof railway, Baltic terminus unveiled
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21 July · 1804Pavel Melnikov, the Russia’s first Minister of Railways (1866-1869) was born on this day
August
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28 August · 2024Russian Railways launched first automated "Lastochka" to carry passengers on Moscow Central Circle
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02 August · 2024Russian Railways presented new mobile medical train "Saint Panteleimon"
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04 August · 2011Electric locomotive 2ES10 Granit first to pull a record heavy 9K-ton train across the Ural mountain range
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03 August · 1929First Moscow electric train left the Yaroslavsky railway station on Moscow – Mytishchi route
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29 August · 1880Aleksandrovsky railway bridge across the Volga opens in Samara governorate
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15 August · 1851Double-track Nikolayevskaya railway line opens: St. Petersburg Nikolayevsky railway station – Moscow Nikolayevsky railway station
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02 August · 1851Leningradsky railway station opens in Moscow
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10 August · 1845Steam locomotive era began in Russia
September
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10 September · 2016The Moscow Central Ring (MCC) has been opened to passengers
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29 September · 1984"Golden link" marks the bonding of the BAM’s eastern and western sections
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30 September · 1966"Russia" branded train sets off for its maiden journey
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11 September · 1901Rizhsky railway station opens in Moscow
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01 September · 1900Paveletsky railway station opens in Moscow
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18 September · 1870Belorussky railway station opens in Moscow
October
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01 October · 2003OJSC Russian Railways established
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27 October · 1984Traffic along the Baikal-Amur Mainline is launched
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05 October · 1916Scheduled transcontinental railway service Moscow – Vladivostok opens
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16 October · 1905Circum-Baikal Railway commences regular operations
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30 October · 1837Tsarskoye Selo Railway launched
December
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23 December · 2024Russian Railways displayed first "Sapsan" train modernised using domestic components
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19 December · 2024Double-decker "Aurora" train started running between Moscow and St. Petersburg
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28 December · 2023The first domestically-produced electric train "Finist" started its first route
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15 December · 2023Trains begin to travel through new double-track Kerak tunnel in Amur Region
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05 December · 2021Father Frost Train
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12 December · 2010First high-speed "Allegro" train links St. Petersburg and Helsinki
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17 December · 2009First high-speed "Sapsan" train links St. Petersburg and Moscow
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05 December · 2003Severomuysky tunnel on Baikal-Amur Mainline put into operation
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25 December · 2002Trans-Siberian railway completely electrified
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23 December · 1917First issue of the "Gudok" newspaper published