Donetsk Railway
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Map of the sistem (Russian)
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 Ukraine
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| Dates of operation | 15 May 1953– |
| Predecessor | North Donetsk Railways South Donetsk Railways |
| Track gauge | 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) |
| Length | 3,275 km (2,030 mi) |
| Headquarters | Lyman (before 2015 – Donetsk) |
| Website | Click here |
Donetsk Railway (Ukrainian: Донецька залізниця) is a railways operator in eastern Ukraine, particularly Donbas area. Belongs to Ukrainian Railways and is under partial control of Ukrainian government, because of Russian military intervention in Ukraine which led to the de facto war in Donbass.
Due to war conditions, only portions of Donetsk Railway are operational such as Krasny Lyman Directorate. Based on the directorate, in December 2014 there was created a regional branch of Ukrzaliznytsia Donetsk Railway. The headquarters were moved from Donetsk to Lyman.
The railway serves the most important for the country's industrial heartland of Donbas-Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as partially Zaporizhia, Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts (Ukrainian regions), thus combining in a single transport conveyor Donbas and the Dnipro, the Central regions of the Russia and Ukraine, the Volga region and the Caucasus. The railway has two border transfer stations on the Russia-Ukraine border over which it does not have a control due to war conditions. Those are Krasna Mohyla (Chervonopartyzansk), Kvashyne, Ilovaisk, and Lantrativka, Troitske Raion.
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