Images
- 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- Unpublished resources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