Zaporizhzhia-1 Railway Station (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя I) is the main train station in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. The station is located on an electrified Synelnykove — Zaporizhzhia — Fedorivka line and is one of the four railway stations in the city.
Zaporizhzhia-1 | |
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| Cisdnieper Railways terminal | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 6 Sobornyi Ave., Komunarskyi District, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 47°47′42″N 35°11′15″E / 47.79500°N 35.18750°E |
| Owned by | Ukrzaliznytsia |
| Platforms | 4 |
| Tracks | 6 |
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| Construction | |
| Structure type | At-grade |
| Architect | Viktor Skarzhynskyi |
| Architectural style | Stalinist architecture |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 460700 |
| History | |
| Opened | 15 November 1873 |
| Rebuilt | 1954 |
| Electrified | December 1965 |
| Previous names | Oleksandrivsk-1 |
The station opened during the construction of Lozova — Sevastopol railway on 5 November 1873. The new building was constructed in 1954, after the original was destroyed in World War II. The building of the station is a monument of architecture of regional significance.[1]
In 2018, the Zaporizhzhia-1 railway station was included in the top-10 busiest railway stations in Ukraine, serving 2.1 million long-distance passengers.[2]
History
editThe station and a one-story, wooden station building were opened in 1873 during the construction of the first section of the private Lozovo-Sevastopol railway in 1870-1873. Since 1874, regular train traffic began to the Melitopol station, and on 18 January 1875 to the Sevastopol station.[3]
During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the station became the epicenter and last stronghold of the armed uprising of the workers of Zaporizhzhia, at the time named Oleksandrivsk.
On 23 December 1905, the workers of the Yekaterinsky and Southern Railway Workshops in Oleksandrivsk joined the All-Russian political strike. In two days, both the workshops themselves and the stations where they were located were under the control of the workers. Gendarmes, Cossacks, Black Hundreds and garrison troops were dispatched to suppress the strike. On the night of December 26, 1905, the Cossacks attacked the strikers and arrested the leader of the strike, Volodymyr Vasiliev.
Later, barricades were erected around the station, and from the morning of 27 December 1905, armed struggle began near the station. By evening, government troops and their supporters had prevailed over the rebels. As a result of the confrontation, more than 50 people died and about 800 were arrested.[4]
On the night of 23 to 24 December 1920, the agitational train "Bolshevik" crashed on the railway bridge over the Mokra Moskovka river, near the Oleksandrivsk-1 station, leaving 29 people dead. In 1930, a small obelisk was erected on the grave of those who died during the train accident, next to the bridge where the accident took place.
The old building of the station was destroyed during the Second World War. The new station building in the Stalinist style was opened on 25 September 1954. According to the book "Architecture of Railway Stations", the project of the was headed by the architects of "Mostoproject" bureau Viktor Skarzhynskyi, M. Khachaturova and G. Chernyshov, while the sculptural composition above the central entrance of the station is the work of the sculptor Mykhailo Khudas.[5]
In December 1965, the section Lozova — Synelnikove I — Zaporizhzhia was electrified with direct current (=3 kV). In 1969, the electrification of the Zaporizhzhia — Melitopol section was completed.[6]
From 2000 to August 2002, the renovation of the station complex took place. On 29 September 2024, the building of the station was damage as a result of Russian airstrike targeting the city.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Вокзал "Запоріжжя - 1". Облікова карта". Запорізька Спадщина. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ "Топ-10 найбільш завантажених вокзалів України в 2018 році". Економічна правда (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ A. A. Alimov, V. M. Kulagin (1973). Приднепровская железная дорога (in Russian). Проминь. p. 10.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Akbash, Roman. "23 грудня в історії Запоріжжя: повстання 1905 року, залізнична катастрофа та Жиздик". Акбаш Знає (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ Frolova, Antonina (2019-09-30). "Как выглядел вокзал «Запорожье — 1» накануне открытия". iz.com.ua (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-12-15.
- ^ "Сведения о железных дорогах общего пользования с 1918 по 1990 гг. | Проект «Исторические Материалы»". istmat.org. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Росія обстріляла залізничний вокзал у Запоріжжі: пошкоджено будівлю та потяг з пасажирами". 24 Канал (in Ukrainian). 2024-09-29. Retrieved 2024-09-30.