Done: sem-2 Adxamov Ulug’bek Tashkent-2022

General history

Russian Empire (1837–1917)

Russian railroads construction by year 1837-1989

Map of Russian railroads in 1916
Model (2002) of the steam locomotive constructed by Cherepanov (1834)

People of all ethnicities and walks of life would meet on Russian trains (sketch by Vasily Perov, 1880)

Tsarskoye Selo Imperial Station / Emperor railway station in Pushkin town 1913

The marker for kilometre 9288, at the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway line in Vladivostok
In the early 1830s Russian inventors father and son Cherepanovs built the first Russian steam locomotive. The first railway line was built in Russia in 1837 between Saint-Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo, and called the Tsarskoye Selo Railway. It was 27 km long and linked the Imperial Palaces at Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk. Track gauge was 6 feet (1830 mm).^[4] This railway has been described as a "toy" railway, as it had no economic, political or social impact on the Russian Empire.^[5]
The Warsaw–Vienna railway in Congress Poland started operating in 1845, and fully opened in 1848, with 327,6 km length of track. It ran from Warsaw to the border with Austria and used the standard European gauge (1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)), as opposed to all other railways in the Russian Empire which used the broad gauge (1,524 mm or 5 ft), hence it formed a system physically separated from other Russian railways.
The Department of Railways, later part of the Russian Ministry of Communications, was created in the Russian Empire in 1842 in order to oversee the construction of Russia's second major railway line, the Moscow–Saint Petersburg Railway. The railway linked the imperial capital Saint-Petersburg and Moscow and was built between 1842 and 1851.^[6] Track gauge was 1,524 mm (5 ft) and this became the Russian standard gauge. From 1853-1862, a line was built from St. Petersburg to Warsaw, thus connecting with Western Europe.