Rail Transport in Ukraine - Administrative Structure

Administrative Structure

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. 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:

  1. Donetsk Railway – Donetsk
  2. Lviv Railway – Lviv
  3. Odessa Railway – Odessa
  4. Southern Railway – Kharkiv
  5. Southwestern Railway – Kiev
  6. Near-Dnipro Railway – Dnipropetrovsk

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