Private company

Moscow Railway

Railway operator in Russia

Moscow Railway (Russian: Московская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of Russian Railways that handles half of Russia's suburban railway operations and a quarter of the country's passenger traffic. As of 2009 the railway, which has its headquarters near Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow, employed 73,600 people.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

Jul 14, 1959Founded1
Управление Московской железной дороги и ИВЦ
Photo: Leonrid, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Moscow Railway (Russian: Московская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of Russian Railways that handles half of Russia's suburban railway operations and a quarter of the country's passenger traffic. As of 2009 the railway, which has its headquarters near Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow, employed 73,600 people. It manages railway services in much of Central Russia, including Moscow and Moscow Oblast (all railways except the railroad to Saint Petersburg, which is managed by October Railway), Smolensk, Vladimir, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk, and Kursk Oblasts.2

Corporate structure

Moscow Railway is part of a group headed by Russian Railways. 38 entities, 7 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Moscow Railway reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • Aeroport
  • Lesok railway station
  • Pochinok
  • Shatura
  • Stodolische
  • Unecha
  • Zhukovka

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

1861 Moscow-Petushki

1862 Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod

1862 Moscow-Sergiyev Posad

1865 Moscow-Kolomna-Ryazan

1868 Serpukhov-Tula-Oryol-Kursk

1870 Sergiyev Posad-Alexandrov

1870 Moscow-Mozhaysk-Smolensk

1899 Moscow-Sukhinichi-Bryansk

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1900 Moscow-Savyolovo

1908 Moscow Little Ring Railway

1943-1960 Moscow Big Ring Railway

From Wikipedia’s article on Moscow Railway, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Subsidiaries

  • Moscow-Kursk division of Moscow railroad
  • Moscow-Smolensk division of Moscow Railroad

Also owns

  • Aeroport
  • Lesok railway station
  • Pochinok
  • Shatura
  • Stodolische
  • Unecha
  • Zhukovka

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Jul 14, 1959Founded Founded1

Sources

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