MR Oleg Belozerov, Russia's first deputy minister of transport, has been appointed president of Russian Railways (RZD) by Russian prime minister Mr Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting in Moscow on August 20.
AFTER more than a decade at the helm of one of the world's largest railways, Dr Vladimir Yakunin confirmed on August 18 that he will be standing down as president of Russian Railways (RZD) to seek election to the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's parliament.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) has taken delivery of its first batch of Evraz 100m-long head-hardened rails for the Moscow - St Petersburg line.
PASSENGER numbers on Russian Railways's (RZD) flagship Sapsan services reached 1.88 million in the first half of this year, a 26.4% increase compared with the same period in 2014, according to ridership figures released on July 13.
SIEMENS and Sinara celebrated the fifth anniversary of their Ural Locomotives Russian joint venture on July 9 by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will pave the way for the assembly of high-speed trains at its Verkhnaya Pyshma plant near Yekaterinburg.
IRJ at the UIC High-Speed Rail World Congress, Tokyo: THE prime minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe, addressed the 1200 delegates attending the opening session of the ninth UIC world congress on high-speed rail which opened in Tokyo on July 7.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) subsidiary Federal Passenger Company (FPC) has taken delivery of its first set of double-deck day coaches from Tver Carriage Works (TVZ).
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) has announced that it will introduce a Moscow - St Petersburg - Tallinn service from July 10 two months after Estonian operator GoRail ceased operation of its remaining Estonia - Russia cross-border trains.
Russian Railways (RZD) has awarded Siemens a 40-year maintenance contract for the Lastochka regional trains that Siemens started building in 2013. Negotiations began in 2011 when Siemens was originally commissioned to build the new trains, in an order reportedly worth €2bn.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) has begun commercial operation of the first of a batch of triple-section dc electric freight locomotives, produced by Transmashholding's NEVZ plant.
