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Russian Railways
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state-owned railway company in Russia
Key facts
- Native name
- ОАО «Российские железные дороги»
- Romanized name
- OAO «Rossijskije železnyje dorogi»
- Company type
- Open joint-stock company
- Industry
- Railways
- Predecessor
- Ministry of Railways of the Russian Federation [ ru ] (1992–2004)
- Founded
- 18 September 2003 ; 22 years ago ( 2003-09-18 )
- Headquarters
- Red Gates Square ( 55°46′N 37°39′E / 55.767°N 37.650°E / 55.767; 37.650 ), Moscow , Russia
- Area served
- Russia, Belarus
- Key people
- Oleg Belozyorov ( CEO ), Vitaly Savelyev ( Chairman )
- Services
- Passenger trains , Rail transport , Cargo , High-speed rail
- Revenue
- ₽ 1.5989 trillion (2024)
- Operating income
- ₽ 254.9 billion (2024)
- Net income
- ₽ 114 billion (2024)
- Total assets
- ₽ 4.47 trillion (2017)
- Total equity
- ₽ 2.41 trillion (2017)
- Owner
- Russian Government (100%)
- Number of employees
- 740,315 (2017)
- Website
- eng .rzd .ru
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1992
- Location
- Moscow, Russia
- Also known as
- JSC RZD, JSC Russian Railways
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.465426.7 · ISNI 0000 0004 4669 700X
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Encyclopedic overview
Russian Railways (Russian: ОАО «Российские железные дороги», romanized: OAO «Rossijskije železnyje dorogi») or RZD (ОАО «РЖД») is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services and has a near-monopoly on long-distance train travel in Russia.
The company was established on 18 September 2003, when a decree was passed to separate the upkeep and operation of the railways from the Ministry of Railways of the Russian Federation [ru], which in turn was the successor of the USSR Ministry of Railways. RZhD is based in Moscow at Novaya Basmannaya str. [ru], 2. The operating units of the central part of the staff are at Kalanchevskaya str., 35.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Russian Railways” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.