Volkhovstroy railway station 1. Volkhov - Volkhovstroy

Volkhovstroy-1 is a marshalling station in the city of Volkhov (Leningrad region). In terms of the amount of work performed, it is extracurricular. The station was opened in 1904 on the newly built line St. Petersburg - Vologda, the original name was Zvanka, in 1934 it was renamed Volkhovstroy.

It was not possible to find out about the architect of the station. I couldn’t find the history of the construction of the station building on the Internet. In 2008, reconstruction of the station's terminal began. Its completion occurred at the end of 2010.

Before the complete electrification of all directions adjacent to Volkhovstroy, suburban traffic from the station to them (except Leningradsky) was carried out by diesel-powered trains - mainly as part of an interregional carriage and an old “reserved seat” (in recent years also in the version of the Gomel suburban conversion) - under diesel locomotive TEP60 - in recent years under diesel locomotive TEP70.

All long-distance trains passing through it stop at the station (with the exception of train No. 5/6 St. Petersburg - Petrozavodsk and some additional ones). As of August 2014, more than 20 trains pass daily.

There are 2 railway stations in the city of Volkhov: Volkhovstroy 1, Okt.zh.d., Volkhovstroy-2

The steam locomotive-monument Eu 708-64 is located at the Volkhovstroy-1 railway station
The steam locomotive Eu 708-64 belongs to the E series locomotives. The axial formula of the steam locomotive is 0-5-0 (a locomotive with 5 moving axles in 1 rigid frame). It was built in the USSR and operated here. The length of the locomotive is 11456 mm, the operating weight is 85.6 tons, the adhesive weight is the same, 2 cylinders, the design speed is 55 km/h. Has a Walshart steam distribution mechanism.

This locomotive was the first to deliver a train with ammunition and food to the Finland Station after breaking the blockade of Leningrad. This happened on February 7, 1943. The locomotive belonged to the locomotive depot of the city of Volkhovstroy. Afterwards, the locomotive was transferred to the reserve of the Ministry of Railways (MPS) and was located at the Belgorod station of the Southern Railway. Thanks to the initiative of Volkhovstroevsk veteran railway workers, after negotiations with the Ministry of Railways, it was decided to deliver the locomotive back to Volkhov to install it as a monument.

Currently, this locomotive is presented in its original form as a monument to the exploits of railway workers. It is located on the platform of the Volkhov railway station. In order to be able to lift the locomotive onto the pedestal, a temporary railway line was built, because at that time there were no lifting structures capable of lifting such a heavy object.

And a few more photos

station Square

The train and electric train schedule for Volkhovstroy 1 station for 2019 contains 18 trains and 23 electric trains. The traffic schedule is updated daily, taking into account all current changes from Russian Railways. The first train arrives at the station at 01:18. It runs from St. Petersburg station to Petrozavodsk station. The latter departs from the platform at 23:11, traveling from St. Petersburg station to Murmansk station. On average, trains stop at Volkhovstroy 1 station for about 5 minutes.

The first train departs to the St. Petersburg stop (Moskovsky Station) at 04:56. The last train leaves at 21:18 to the Svir stop. The average parking time for an electric train at Volkhovstroy 1 station is 23 minutes. All changes in the commuter train schedule for today and tomorrow are immediately displayed on the website.

Almost all suburban trains run daily, only a few of them have a special schedule. Most long-distance trains operate on their own schedule.

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Volkhovstroy station and the city of Volkhov are one and the same.
A hundred years ago there was nothing here except a small workers’ village and a station attached to it, called Zvanka. And then, the station arose in 1904, during the construction of the St. Petersburg - Vologda railway. Thus, it turns out that the city of Volkhov itself is very young, and owes its origins to the railway junction and the power station built in 1927 on the river of the same name.
In 1916, a railway was built from Zvanka to Murmansk and the station became an important railway junction. In the 20s, in connection with the construction of a hydroelectric station, the station and the village were renamed Volkhovstroy. In 1940, the town received the name Volkhov, and the station remained Volkhovstroy.

1. There are essentially only two main attractions in the city. This is a beautiful station with a characteristic turret, which reminded me a little of the station in Simferopol.
The second is the oldest hydroelectric station in Russia on the Volkhov River.
The city of Volkhov itself is located 120 km east of the regional center of St. Petersburg. is a regional center, and 46 thousand people live in it.
In addition to a large railway junction and a power plant, there is an aluminum plant in the town.

2. The station square was not at all impressive. Compared to the luxurious station, it is simply nothing, as they say in St. Petersburg - nothing.

3. The facade of the station faces the city. The water tower built during the construction of the road at the beginning of the 20th century is visible.

4. And this is a view of the station from the tracks. A major renovation of the station was completed in 2010.

5. The electric train that brought us from St. Petersburg.

6. From the very first minutes at the Volkhovstroy station, I was faced with the real dominance of DC freight locomotives.
Everywhere you look, there were VL10, VL11, VL15, as well as brand new Donchak cars, under trains or in dead ends.

7. During the war, the city and the station were kept from being captured by the enemy, but Volkhov was quite close to the front line for a very long time and was the rear supply base for the Volkhov Front. Cargo for blockaded Leningrad also passed through the station.

8. Schedule of commuter trains to directions "FOR" Volkhovstroy. To Babaevo (Tikhvin), where it connects with the Vologda Peremenka and to Petrozavodsk.
On the Petrozavodsk direction (to Svir station) three pairs of electric trains run per day. There are 7 pairs of electric trains running on the Tikhvin direction per day, and one of them even runs from St. Petersburg. I think this is still relatively good.
There is one pair of trains per day in a southerly direction, to Chudovo.

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10. Monument to the steam locomotive.

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12. Nearby there is a building in which a hundred years ago there was a locomotive roundhouse. Now it is some kind of educational institution.

13. The pedestrian bridge helped me out again. I love these open bridges, from which it is so convenient to photograph stations without attracting too much attention.
This is a view of the departure and arrival cargo parks at Volkhovstroy-I station.
In 1916, the station became an important railway junction in Russia. Here two main routes began to intersect, Moscow - Chudovo - Murmansk and St. Petersburg - Vologda - Ural and Siberia. One of them connects the center of the country with the Arctic, the second ports of the Gulf of Finland and the most important industrial center of the country with the eastern regions of Russia and the Far East. It is no coincidence that one of the largest locomotive depots on the Oktyabrskaya Road was built here.

14. View from the bridge of the station and the building of the post of the Volkhovstroy-I station. Freight VL10, which had already been repainted in the corporate color of Russian Railways, proceeded from the dead end to the train.

15. On the opposite side, the aluminum plant located across the Volkhov River is clearly visible. A closer view of the locomotive depot TCHE-21.

16. There are work trains at dead ends, further away are the depot buildings.

17. The view to the east was blocked by the heat main on the bridge. From the side of the railway bridge over Volkhov, another freight train arrives at the station. Well, there's movement here! And not a single passenger, only cargo.

18. Entrance to the depot.

19. At the depot, I decided not to be too impudent and took only a few pictures so as not to attract attention to myself.

20. Sign of the electric locomotive 2ES4K "Donchak". The car is only 2 years old.

21. Veteran and his shift. On the right is Donchak, released in 2012. VL10 was released in 1970.
There are 393 units assigned to the depot. The main profile of this depot is the repair and operation of DC electric freight locomotives.

22. On the territory of the depot there is another monument to the steam locomotive.

23. 3-section “Donchak”, standing near the repair shop.

24. The depot also carries out repairs of locomotives, including those from other roads. For example, VL11 from Yaroslavl (Northern Road).

25. Another 3-section VL11.

26. Eastern neck of the station. One train is heading to Chudovo, another with sea containers is heading to Vologda, a single VL10 is awaiting the command to go under the train.
The traffic is very intense.

27. And this train arrived from the direction of the bridge over the Volkhov. From Murmansk, or from Vologda, I don’t know.
After the opening in 2009 of the high-speed train service "Sapsan" on the main route Moscow - St. Petersburg, almost all freight traffic from St. Petersburg and its ports was transferred to the Vologda route. Hence the intensity of freight traffic in Volkhovstroi.

28. From the eastern neck the paths diverge. Some are to the bridges over the Volkhov (this is to Murmansk and Vologda), and these, on the side of me, are to Chudovo, that is, to the south.
At the Volkhov junction there are also bypasses with a bridge over the river, a ring and an exit from Chudovo towards Murmansk and Vologda.
There is also a large sorting hump. The station is very large and it is impossible to get around it in one day.

29. And this follows a single VL15-001, the most powerful Soviet DC locomotive, and even with the number 001. This means the very first.

30. I went towards the Novooktyabrsky station. This is the direction to Chudovo.

31. Novooktyabrsky station.

32. And this is the exit from Chudovo to the bridges over the Volkhov. In fact, this is the road from Chudovo (Bologoye, Moscow) to Murmansk, without calling at the Volkhovstroy I station.

33. Here are the railway bridges across the Volkhov. Initially it seemed to me that there were three of them.
Thanks to the road, it was possible to get close to the bridges.

34. But as it turned out, one bridge was dismantled. All that was left of it were the old supports.

35. We walked under the bridge and came to a place from which the Volkhov hydroelectric station and the railway bridge itself are clearly visible.

36. On the other side of Volkhov there is another station - Volkhovstroy-II. It is from here that the branch goes to Murmansk and Vologda.
Below me there is a very steep bank, from which you can easily fall down. There were a lot of fishermen down by the water, it was Saturday after all.

37. Aluminum plant on the other side of Volkhov. It was founded in the 20s of the last century.

38. Volkhov hydroelectric power station, which was built in 1927. An interesting fact is that it began to be built during the Russian Empire, in 1915.
It is a low-pressure channel dam. It is the oldest hydroelectric power station in Russia. The hydroelectric power station reservoir flooded the Volkhov rapids, ensuring navigation along the Volkhov River. The Volkhov hydroelectric power station played a huge role in the development of the country's industry in 1920-1930, as well as in the energy supply of industrial facilities, including besieged Leningrad, during the Great Patriotic War.

39. The first project for using the Volkhov River to generate electricity was prepared by engineer Genrikh Osipovich Graftio back in 1902. In 1914, he modernized the project to accommodate more powerful turbines.
But the station was destined to be fully built and put into operation under Soviet rule. By the way, V.I. Lenin showed great interest in its construction.

I used to think - where is the Volkhov reservoir on the map, why isn’t it there? I saw the depth of the river in the local terrain and immediately understood everything.
Probably this place was not chosen by chance, and the proximity to Petrograd, which is in dire need of electricity, played a role.

40. The relatively new Ilyinsky Bridge across the Volkhov River, which here flows in a deep natural depression.
The Volkhov River is relatively short (about 200 km). It connects Lake Ilmen with Ladoga and is the same river connecting bridge as, for example, the Neva or Narva. Here, in the north-west of Russia, which is replete with lake systems, such river bridges connect these water systems with each other and ultimately with the Baltic Sea.
In ancient times, Volkhov was part of the route from the Varangians to the Greeks.

41. The carriageway of the bridge has 4 lanes.

42. View to the north. There, 22 kilometers from here, the Volkhov flows into Lake Ladoga. Near the mouth is the town of Novaya Ladoga. And a few kilometers away, in the same direction, stands the rural settlement of Staraya Ladoga, which is considered the ancient capital of Northern Rus'. There was no time to go there, because we did not have a car. This object is worthy of a separate trip.
In the village of Staraya Ladoga there is the Staraya Ladoga Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Museum-Reserve, which includes the Staraya Ladoga Fortress. There are temples and monasteries.
In the depths you can see another road bridge across the river.

43. A pedestrian bridge that is in poor condition.

44. From the half-abandoned pedestrian bridge, the remains of old supports are visible.

45. A little about the city itself.
Volkhov, this is almost a typical Russian province. Everything here is much poorer and more modest than in the satellite cities of St. Petersburg, there are many inexpensive cars. There are no special attractions other than the station and hydroelectric station. Well, except for the bridges over the Volkhov and the beautiful views from them.

46. ​​In the area of ​​the station you can see such houses.

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48. And these houses seem to have been built by captured Germans.

49. Old wooden houses that promise to be resettled “no later than December 2014.”

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51. The central street is named after Yuri Gagarin.

52. Local cats are basking in what turns out to be the last sun.

53. It was difficult to find where to eat for an amount not exceeding 250 rubles. This place turned out to be this very cramped and crowded establishment.
Everything else here is expensive restaurant-type cafes. There are no chain fast food establishments.
I encountered a similar situation in Borovichi.

54. House of Culture "Zheleznodorozhnik".

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57. Local area. But I never saw the monument to Lenin anywhere.

58. Administration of the Volkhov region.

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