| Type | JSC |
|---|---|
| Industry | Rail transport |
| Predecessor | Southwestern Railways (temporarily) |
| Founded | 14 December 1991 First founded 1918-26 |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Number of locations | 1,648 stations and halts |
| Area served | Ukraine |
| Key people | Volodymyr Kozak General director |
| Products | Rail transport, Cargo transport, Services |
| Revenue | 1,760,000,000 UAH (2005) |
| Owner(s) | Ukraine (100%) |
| Employees | 375,900 (2010) |
| Parent | Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine |
| Divisions | 6 regional directorates |
| Website | www.uz.gov.ua |
Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian: Укрзалізниця), also known as Ukrainian Railways, is the State Administration of Railroad Transportation in Ukraine, monopoly that controls vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country [1] with a combined total length of track of over 23,000 km, which makes Ukrainian railroad network 14th in the world. Ukrzaliznytsia is also the world's 6th largest rail passenger transporter and world's 7th largest freight transporter.
State Administration of Railroad Transportation is subordinated to the Ministry of Infrastructure[2], administering the railways through the 6 territorial railway companies, which in turn immediately control and provide of all aspects of the railroad transportation and maintenance. The general director of the administration is appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.[3]
The administration employs over 375,000 people through all regions of the country.
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Railways in Ukraine were built under the imperial rule of the Austria-Hungary (in the western territories), and later in the Russian Empire-controlled territories, having seen major development and reformation since. For more information, see:
On September 24, 1991, following the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on separation from the Soviet Union, all railroad administration was temporarily passed to the South-Western Railways. According to the resolution, all assets located within the borders of the former Ukrainian SSR became property of Ukraine. To improve efficiency in such administration it was to create a special centralized administration. On December 14, 1991 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued a declaration #356 "In creation of the State Administration of Railroad Transportation in Ukraine" which proclaimed Ukrzaliznytsia a government body in administration railroad transportation uniting the six state railroad companies.[4]
The railways are split into 6 territorial railway companies: Donets'k, Lviv, Odessa, Southern, South-Western and Near-Dnipro. The subdivision is purely administrative as it doesn't correspond to the particular railway lines or branches. The names of regional railways are purely historic, inherited from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. For instance, the 'South-Western Railway' actually operates the 'north-central' part of Ukraine's rail network (in the area of the Kiev Oblast. The 'Southern Railway' actually operates in the east of the country, whilst the Near-Dnipro Railways are the southern-most.
The six separate territorial railways each have their own directorates, located in the following cities:
On April 27, 2011 in accordance with order № 504/2011 rail industry specialists developed a new classification system of passenger trains for Ukrainian Railways.[5]
The development of a new classification system for passenger trains in Ukraine was made necessary by the need to inform customers (passengers) about the level of service quality they could expect to find in various passenger trains. The new system is based on the class of train and carriages.
Given the quality of the service provided UZ asked the following classes of passenger trains:
The advantages of the new classification system include: full compliance with the classification of the European Union, compliance with Ukrainian and English names and abbreviations, clarity for customers, linguistic and semantic consistency and clarity for customers in Ukraine and compatibility with existing and future tariff policy. The system is also not far displaced from the previous classification system used for passenger trains on the territory of Ukraine and therefore should not cause major problems when introduced.
In 2008 the Ukrainian State Railways transported around 498.5 million tonnes of domestic freight and 69.8 million tonnes of international freight in transit through Ukrainian territory; freight transport figures were particularly high on transport routes 3, 5 and 9 which saw a combined total of 105 million tonnes carried along their routes in 2008. Further to this, Ukrzaliznytsia served around 518.8 million passengers over the course of the year. The State Railways ran with an annual consolidated budget of a little more than 40 billion UAH (5 billion USD) in 2008.
By the end of 2005 the railways had produced a profit equivalent to 1.76 billion UAH (7.5 million USD) from all their operations including freight, passenger service, associated services and the operation of subsidiaries. The total capital invested in fixed assets of the State Railways is thought to be equivalent to around 22 billion UAH (4.4 billion USD), however, depreciation of these fixed assets is estimated to be around 57%, or in terms of rolling stock, closer to 66.7%.
The full extent of the railway system in Ukraine administrated by Ukrzaliznytsia is currently put at around 22,300 km, of which 9,752 km (44.3%) is fully electrified with the use of the overhead wire. The network is fully interconnected, central-dispatched and consists of 1,648 stations of all sizes spread throughout the country. The largest stations are Nyzhnodniprovsk-Vuzol (in the city of Dnipropetrovsk) and Darnytsia (in the capital Kiev).
The Ukrainian railway network is permanently undergoing large scale reconstruction, mainly in order to reduce operating costs, inherited from the Soviet economy, and to implement higher speeds of passenger services. Particularly, around 4000 sets of switches have already been upgraded.
In November 2010, UZ agreed to buy 10 interurban trainsets from Hyundai Rotem, with the prospect of a much larger order or joint venture for local production.[6] In July 2011, UZ announced plans to buy 433 electric freight locomotives; 292 2EL4s from Transmashholding, and 141 locomotives (including class VL11M/6) from Elmavalmshenebeli.[7]
The National Railway University in Dnipropetrovsk currently has 10 faculties as well as a technical school, a business school and branches in Odessa and Lviv, 450 professors and 39 separate fields of study related to Railway transport.
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