Private company

North Caucasus Railway

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Railway division in Russia

The North Caucasus Railway (Russian: Северо-Кавказская железная дорога) is a 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) broad gauge Russian railway network that links the Sea of Azov (in the west) and Caspian Sea (in the east). It runs through ten federal subjects: Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, Republic of Adygeya, Karachay–Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kalmykia. The headquarters are the North Caucasus Railway Administration Building in Rostov-on-Don.2 It is part of Russian Railways.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1861Founded1

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Photo: CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

The North Caucasus Railway (Russian: Северо-Кавказская железная дорога) is a 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) broad gauge Russian railway network that links the Sea of Azov (in the west) and Caspian Sea (in the east). It runs through ten federal subjects: Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, Republic of Adygeya, Karachay–Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kalmykia. The headquarters are the North Caucasus Railway Administration Building in Rostov-on-Don.2

Corporate structure

North Caucasus 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 North Caucasus 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)

  • Shelkovskaya railway station

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

The story

1861 Shakhtnaya–Aksay (the first rail line in Northern Caucasus)

1871 Zverevo–Shakhtnaya

1872 Rostov-on-Don–Vladikavkaz

1875 Aksay–Rostov-on-Don

1888 Tikhoretskaya-Novorossisk

1897-Kavkazskaya-Stavropol

1901 Kavkazskaya–Krasnodar

1911 Bataysk–Azov

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1911 Sosyka–Yeysk

1911 Armavir–Maikop

1912 Belorechenskaya–Tuapse

1914 Krasnodar–Akhtari

1914 Krymskaya–Timashevsk–Kushchevka

1915 Bataysk–Salsk

1915 Prokhladnaya–Gudermes

1916 Palagiada–Vinodelnoye

1923 Tuapse–Sochi

1927 Sochi–Matsesta–Adler

1928 Petrovskoye Selo–Blagodarnoye

1931 Vinodelnoye–Divnoye

1931 Rostov-on-Don–Khapry

1931 Komsomolskaya–Neftegorsk

1931 Maikop–Khadzhokh

1940 Labinskaya–Shedok

1942 Gudermes–Astrakhan

1942 Adler–Sukhumi

1944 Krymskaya–Starotitarovka

1969 Divnoye–Elista

1971 Zverevo–Krasnodonskaya

1977 Anapa–Yurovsky

1978 Krasnodar–Tuapse

1987 Blagodarnoye–Budyonnovsk

1989 Peshchanokopskaya–Krasnaya Gvardiya

In 1937 the North Caucasus Railway was renamed after the Soviet party leader Sergo Ordzhonikidze but soon reverted to its traditional name. It was in the late 1950s that most of the railway network was electrified.

In 1987 the line from Zverevo north to Chertkovo was transferred from the South Eastern Railway to the North Caucasus Railway, with the new connection between the two railways being just north of Chertkovo railway station.

From Wikipedia’s article on North Caucasus Railway, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Also owns

  • Shelkovskaya railway station

Former owners and parents

  • Ministry of the Means of Communication of the USSR Mar 15, 1946 to Jan 20, 1992
  • Ministry of the Means of Communication of the Russian Federation Jan 20, 1992 to Sep 18, 2003

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Sep 18, 2003Renamed Name changed to Северо-Кавказская железная дорога — филиал открытого акционерного общества «Российские железные дороги»1
  2. Sep 18, 2003Acquired Acquired by Russian Railways1
  3. Jan 20, 1992Renamed Name changed to Северо-Кавказская железная дорога Министерства путей сообщения Российской Федерации1
  4. Jan 20, 1992Acquired Acquired by Ministry of the Means of Communication of the Russian Federation1
  5. Mar 15, 1946Acquired Acquired by Ministry of the Means of Communication of the USSR1
  6. 1861Founded Founded1

Sources

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