3 AUGUST - Railway Workers’ Day

Every year, on the first Sunday of August, Russia celebrates Railway Workers’ Day.

The history of this holiday in our country is connected with the name of Emperor Nicholas I, which is rightly called the “founder of the railway business in Russia”. Not by chance the railroader Day was celebrated on his birthday. After the October revolution of 1917 about this holiday did not recall two decades, the tradition had been revived only in 1937.

Our modern life is impossible without Railways, which are the main transport arteries of the country.

Today the Russian railway network is one of the largest in the world, it provides more than 20% of turnover and 10% of all passenger railway in the world, the total length of railway tracks Russia occupies the 3rd place.

Railwaymen of the Republic of Crimea celebrate this holiday for the first time in the big family of the Russian colleagues, but already with significant results. On August 1 from Simferopol through Kerch ferry went first direct train to Moscow.