• The building of the railway station of Horlivka 2

The building of the railway station of Horlivka

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ID:
5185
Place
Horlivka
Date:
1909
Technique:
Photograph (printed on paper)
Size of the resource:
Unknown
Creator
Unknown
Collection
Museum of the History of Horlivka
Copyright
Museum of the History of Horlivka
Publisher
Unpublished resources
Description

<p>As

of 1912, the station was an important shipping and transit hub. Its

annual freight turnover reached 54 million poods a year. There was a

little settlement not far from the station, where 54 commercial

institutions were concentrated with an aggregate turnover of 220

million roubles.</p>

<p>Quite

close to the station the mines of the South Russian Coal Industry

Company were situated; the Company was created almost at the same

time with the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov Railway Company (1868).</p>

Tags:
industrial landscape
Category:
Train stations
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