The Southern Railways (SR) (, ) is a composing part of Ukraine's Ukrzaliznytsia railroad company and is headquartered in Kharkiv. Southern Railways's route map covers all railroads of the Kharkiv, Poltava and some railroads in other oblasts (regions) as well.
As of 2008, the Southern Railways operate of track. The Southern Railways company contributes a large role as a transit railway in the routes of Russia-Crimea and Russia-Caucasus.
History
This regional railways was formed in 1907 soon after a merge of the Kursk-Kharkiv-Sevastopol railways and the Kharkiv-Mykolaiv railways. The company traces its history to the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railways that was established in 1869.
Structure
Subdivisions
Sumy
Kharkiv
Poltava
Kupiansk
Others
Central House of Science and Technology (Kharkiv subdivision) Mykola Hohol Sanatorium
Directors
Southern Railways
1907–1907 Johann-Theodore "Fyodor" Schmidt
1907–1908 Viktor Rozanov
1909–1910 Ippolit Ivanovskiy
1910–1913 Vladislav Stulginskiy
1913–1916 Boris Voskresenskiy
1916–1917 Boris Yazykov
1920–1920 Aleksei Ivanov (commissar) 1920–1921 A.Hlavatskyi 1921–1922 V.Nauman 1923–1926 A.Ivanov 1920s I.Myronov 1927–1928 Viktor Paniashvili 1928–1930 P.Bandura 1931–1933 Yakiv Livshyts 1933–1934 Mykola Levchenko 1934–1934 Oleksiy Zorin