Abakan–Taishet Railway

The Abakan-Taishet Railway is a railway built between 1959 and 1965, connecting Abakan with Tayshet on the Trans-Siberian Railway. It lies in Krasnoyarsk Krai along with parts of the Republic of Khakassia and Irkutsk Oblast. The line is a continuation of the Novokuznetsk - Abakan Railway which was built between 1949 and 1950. Construction of the Abakan-Taishet Railway was announced as a Komsomol shock construction project, and young workers came from all parts of the Soviet Union to build the line.

Abakan–Taishet Railway
Overview
LocaleRussia
Technical
Track gauge1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) Russian gauge

Distances to points along the line are measured in kilometers beginning at Novokuznetsk.

Route
Yuzhno–Sibirskaya
main line
to Volgograd & Astrakhan
 Saratov
to Rtishevo & Liski
 Sennaya
to Orenburg & Orsk
 Ryabina
 Syzran-Gorod
← to Samara│to Inza →
 Krasny Galyai
to Inza
 Ulyanovsk
Volga river
 Almetyevskaya
to Agryz & Izhevsk
 Tuimazy
to Ufa
 Davlekanovo
 Tolbazy
 Krasnousolsky
 Tukan
to Ufa
 Magnitogorsk
to Orsk & Orenburg
 Kartaly II
Russia
Kazakhstan
border
 Tobol
 Astana I
to Almaty
 Ereimentau
 Sputnik
Irtysh river
 Pavlodar
Kazakhstan
Russia
border
to Omsk & Tyumen
 Kulunda
 Novoblagoveshenskaya
 Lenki
 Korchino
 Rebrikha
 Saarajsky
to Aktogay & Almaty
 Barnaul
Ob river
to Biisk
 Altaiskaya
to Srednesibirskaya
& Novosibirsk
 Altysta II
 Terentyevskaya
 tomusinskaya
 Mezhdurechensk
 Puzhba
 Askiz
 Kamyshta
 Abakan
 Kurgiino
 Zhuravlevo
 Mana
 Kravchenko
 Sayanskaya
 Irbeyskaya
 Agul
 Abokumovka
 Tumashet
Trans-Siberian Railway
to Krasnoyarsk
 Tayshet
Trans-Siberian Railway
 Chita II
Trans-Siberian Railway
to Khabarovsk & Vladivostok
Map of Abakan-Taishet railway
Korotchaevo–
Tomsk line
Barnaul branch
to Surgut & Korotchaevo
 Yunosti-Komsomol
to Tobolsk & Tyumen
 Malaya Bicha
 Ust-Ishim
 Tevriz
 Znamenskoe
 Tara
to Tomsk & Asino
 Rezino
 Ust-Tarka
Trans Siberian Railway
←
to Tatarsk
& Omsk
│
to Novosibirsk
& Yurga →
 Korotkoozyorny
 Gorkoozerny
 Tabulga
 Chistoozernooye
 Kupino
 Bagan
 Savkino
to Omsk & Tyumen
 Osolodino
 Karasuk I
 Chumansky
 Burla
 Slavgorod
 Tabuny
to Astana & Tobol
 Kulunda
Barnaul
to Abakan

The length of the Abakan-Taishet Railway is 647 kilometres (402 mi), while the length of the whole Novokuznetsk-Taishet Railway is 1,034 kilometres (642 mi). From Abakan to Kuragino, the railway goes in the easterly direction, through Minusinsk Hollow, through a forested area to arrive at Kuragino station. From Kuragino to Sayanskaya Station, the railway goes to the north-east, passing through Eastern Sayan Mountains. After Sayanskaya Station, the railway goes east, south of and parallel to the Trans-Siberian Railway, for around 250 kilometres (160 mi) to the city of Taishet, where it ends.

Construction

The idea of building a railroad through the Sayan Mountains first came about in the nineteenth century. However, study of the character of the terrain repeatedly caused the project to be rejected. Experts of the time believed the project to be infeasible due to the difficult terrain.

Planning for the line did not resume until 1935. Five routes were proposed, of which the Tayshet and Nizhneudinsk routes were considered the best.


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