
The administration building of the Korsun Mine Nr 1
- ID: 5183
- Place: Horlivka
- Date: 1900-1925
<p>As<br />
of 1912, the station was an important shipping and transit hub. Its<br />
annual freight turnover reached 54 million poods a year. There was a<br />
little settlement not far from the station, where 54 commercial<br />
institutions were concentrated with an aggregate turnover of 220<br />
million roubles.</p><br />
<p>Quite<br />
close to the station the mines of the South Russian Coal Industry<br />
Company were situated; the Company was created almost at the same<br />
time with the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov Railway Company (1868).</p>