Train 133 Kyiv-Rakhiv. A Popular Carpathian Route

Traveling by train 133 Kyiv – Rakhiv is a convenient and fast way to reach the Carpathians while enjoying comfort throughout the entire journey. This train provides a connection between the dynamic center of Ukraine, Polissia, Prykarpattia, and Zakarpattia.

 

Train 194 Yasinia-Kryvyi Rih. Ivano-Frankivsk to Lviv

Daytime train 194 Yasinia - Kryvyi Rih connects Zakarpattia, the capital and Ukraine's second-largest city by area.

Train 194 Yasinia - Kryvyi Rih 

Loieva. A Railway Station Condemned to Oblivion

Loieva is a passenger halt in the village of the same name in the Nadvirna district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. It lies between the stations of Nadvirna and Deliatyn on the Ivano-Frankivsk-Deliatyn line and belongs to the Lviv Railway.

 

Loieva. The abandoned railway station

Diesel Train Ivano-Frankivsk-Vorokhta. Travel and Errands

Trips on suburban trains attract tourists with their convenience and low cost. Travellers move about in large groups and with bulky backpacks, and a suburban train will always have room for groups of any size, as well as space for luggage. The Ivano-Frankivsk-Vorokhta route is quite popular with those who love conquering mountain peaks, and along the way you can already savour the beauty of the Ukrainian Carpathians.

Suburban diesel train Ivano-Frankivsk-Vorokhta

Diesel Train Kolomyia-Dilove. To the Centre of Europe

The suburban train 6441 Kolomyia-Dilove links Prykarpattia and Zakarpattia, the Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathian regions. In 2022 Ukrzaliznytsia rebuilt 20 kilometres of track that runs along the border with Romania on Transcarpathian soil, and extended the Kolomyia-Rakhiv service on to Dilove, with a stop in the village of Berlybash. The first train to one of the geographic centres of Europe was greeted at the Dilove passenger railway point on 26 August 2022.

The suburban diesel train Kolomyia-Dilove

Mezhova. The Railway Station and the Station Settlement

Mezhova station of the Lyman division of the Donetsk Railway is located in the settlement of the same name in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

 

Mezhova railway station

Yurivka, Varvarivka. People live in the backwaters too

It is traditionally held that travel means visiting popular tourist locations with famous landmarks. In connection with the latest events on a global scale, travelling pioneers devote themselves and their time to active recreation not in toxic zones, but in corners far from the crush of crowds. Journeys through the rural backcountry are an acquaintance with an unknown tourist space and with people who have changed the life of their region for the better. Arriving in the countryside, you see for yourself that everything depends on the activity of the local residents, and that it is not the place that graces a person, but the person the place. Hikes through the peripheries are special routes bound up with the natural surroundings, springs and ponds, single-storey buildings and places of worship, ethnographic museums and village clubs and, of course, sincere, hospitable people, always ready to give a traveller directions or to talk with him about everyday things.

Yurivka, Dnipropetrovsk region. The floodplain of the Mala Ternivka River

Bakhmut I. A Station of Industrial Architecture

Bakhmut I station is a freight station of the Lyman division of the Donetsk Railway.

 

The Bakhmut I railway station. Donetsk Railway

The Fursove Passenger Platform. The Story of Siding No. 5

The Fursove passenger railway platform of the Lyman division of the Donetsk Railway lies between the stations of Udachna (8.5 kilometres in an easterly direction) and Mezhova (10 kilometres in a westerly direction).

Avdiivka. The Terminal Station and Trackside Settlement

The freight-and-passenger railway station of Avdiivka is located in the town of the same name in the Donetsk region and belongs to the Krasnyi Lyman division of the Donetsk Railway.

 

Avdiivka railway station. Donetsk region.

Regional Train 826 Dnipro-Avdiivka. Without Changing

Ukrzaliznytsia continues to restore rail service in the front-line region. In December 2020, the "Maiak" train Kyiv-Avdiivka No. 135/136 made its first trip on the new route. In June, a new regional train was launched, No. 826 Dnipro - Avdiivka, which linked two neighbouring regions — Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk. The train runs along a railway whose construction began 140 years ago, in 1881. For almost a century and a half, the Katerynynska steel main line has remained an important railway stretch with heavy traffic.

The Avdiivka-Chaplyne Suburban Train

The suburban train is not a luxury but a means of transport. The electric train does not always keep to the schedule; one has to wait for it. Sometimes the train is uncomfortable, cold, or crowded, but for many of us the suburban train is vitally necessary, and there is no doing without it.

The Pokrovsk-Pavlohrad-Lozova Suburban Train

Suburban trains are not only a transport link between towns, but also a fascinating chance to travel to interesting places on a day off, to feel the union of nature and the steel highway. Trips by electric train have their own features: no crowds, no traffic jams, and the fare is cheaper. The Pokrovsk-Pavlohrad-Lozova suburban train links three regions - Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv.

 

Pokrovsk railway station. The Pokrovsk-Lozova suburban train

Slovianka. Villages of the Dnipropetrovsk Region

Slovianka is one of the oldest villages in the Dnipropetrovsk region. It received its name in 1777, when, on the instruction of the governor of the Azov province, the settlement of the fertile lands on the bank of the Byk river began. Slovianka lies 125 kilometres from the regional centre. Before the Mezhova district was abolished, 14 km of asphalt road separated the village from the district centre. After the amalgamation of the communities, the residents of the Mezhova area have to cover more than 100 kilometres in 2 hours to reach the district centre of Synelnykove. There is no bus service between the settlements.

Slovianka, Dnipropetrovsk region

Prosiana. The V. V. Pryklonskyi Railway Station

A railway station is a line subdivision through which the railway's link with its users is carried out.  The V. V. Pryklonskyi Prosiana station is located in the settlement of Prosiana in the Synelnykove district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Ocheretyne. A Junction Station and Its Settlement

The Ocheretyne junction freight-and-passenger station lies at the intersection of the Pokrovsk-Yasynuvata and Ocheretyne-Horlivka lines, in the settlement of the same name in the Yasynuvata district of the Donetsk region.

 

Ocheretyne railway station. Donetsk Railway

Synelnykove. A junction station and a town of railwaymen

The town of Synelnykove came into being thanks to the appearance of the railway station, which bears the same name, taken from the name of the landowner General Synelnykov. The junction station of Synelnykove, ceremonially opened on 15 November 1873 during the construction of the Lozova-Sevastopol line, played an important role in the circulatory system of the southern region of tsarist Russia.

 

Synelnykove-I railway station

M. D. Leontovych and Pokrovsk. The Shchedryk Composer

Pokrovsk positions itself as the town in which the world-famous composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych lived and worked. By the entrance tothe Yuvileinyi park, in 2018, the second monument in Ukraine to the brilliant conductor, musician and teacher was unveiled.

Pokrovsk. Donetsk region. The monument to M. D. Leontovych

Zhelanna Station. A Tour for Railway Workers' Day

A station that goes by the name Zhelannaya

The steppe, the heat, and dust above your head

And that is all the lyrical data

Of a certain Donetsk station.

The railway stations on the Avdiivka-Chaplyne route have names that are alluring to a traveller — Mezhova, Udachna, Zhelanna. Zhelanna station is located in the settlement of Zhelanne in the Yasynuvata district of the Donetsk region, between the stations of Hrodivka and Ocheretyne.

 

Zhelanna railway station. The settlement of Zhelanne, Donetsk region

Chunyshyne Station. Neglected, Closed, Forgotten

A small photo-report about the closed Chunyshyne station was planned, but one wants to show every corner of the abandoned railway station. Small stations, welcoming, tidy, become unprofitable and are closed, deciding the fates of the people who worked here and the fates of the stations, those abandoned toilers. Perhaps here someone waited for a suburban train in the waiting hall, someone met and saw off their relatives and friends.