• 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Unpublished resources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<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>

Tags:
industrial landscape
Category:
Train stations
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