Cisdnieper Railways
Cisdnieper Railway () is a regional operator of Ukrainian Railways in southern half of Ukraine. Its headquarters is in Dnipro city. The PZ consists of three divisions – Dnipro Railway, Zaporizhzhia Railway, Kryvyi Rih Railway. PZ's route map includes all the railroads in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts (provinces), also a large part of Kryvyi Rih metropolitan area and some part in Kharkiv oblast. Access to railroads in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has been suspended since 2014 due to annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. As of 2008, PZ's rail system included of track, of which 93.3% was electrified. There are 244 railway stations. History The railroad is one of the oldest lines and was commissioned in 1884 as Krivorog Railroad. At first the headquarters was located in Kryvoy Rog (nowadays Kryvyi Rih), before being relocated to Yekaterinoslav and renamed to Yekaterinin Railroad In the 1890s it expanded by adding existing neighboring railway companies i.e. Donets–Black-coal Railways and parts of Kursk–Kharkiv–Azov Railways. In 1936–1961 it bore the name Stalin Railways. The idea of building a railway network passing through Dnipro city (at that time Yekaterinoslav) is credited to the first Russian minister of railways Pavel Petrovich Melnikov who