Vyatsky North. By rail from Kirov to Kotlas
Vyatsky North. By rail from Kirov to Kotlas
After Kirov Trans-Siberian Railway - Russian steel belt. Much less well known is another railway line, leaving from the capital of Vyatka region to the north, and leading eventually to Kotlas
After Kirov Trans-Siberian Railway - Russian steel belt. Much less well known is another railway line, leaving from the capital of Vyatka region to the north, and leads eventually to the city of Kotlas in the south of the Arkhangelsk region, where it connects with the North Pechora Railway, leading in the Komi Republic. This single-track line and diesel, carried about leisurely train passengers on deaf forest halt, and the window flashed Vyatsk dense forests of the North. Leaving the hospitable city of Kirov, I continued my journey in this direction.
The path from Kirov to Kotlas - is 382 kilometers by rail, and it can be overcome in one day wave of commuter train with transfers at stations and Pinyug Susolovka located. However, I was traveling longer since turned from the main line to the branch stub gluhomannuyu Hristoforova to the village at the border of Kirov and Arkhangelsk regions.
A trip to the North Vyatsky for me began with a little adventure. The train leaves at Pinyug from Kirov to six in the morning, I decided to go not to the main train station, and the station Kirov-Kotlas as Night and day my was closer to her. Though I got up so early without much difficulty, but how much to walk to the train station - not for long ... As a result, before the train was two minutes, when I was still on station in the 500 meters and ran ran to 65 liter backpack. Already I have been lost hope in time, but running up to the station, he saw that the train was still standing, accelerated and jumped the same at the last moment. Managed! That's just not able to because of this, take a picture of the pre-revolutionary Station Station Kirov-Kotlas ...
So the way to Kotlas started, and I'm going straight to the north. Suburban train Kirov - Pinyug is TEP70 locomotive and four cars, with I sat, even in second-class. Like, commuter train, and it is possible to lie down, and even climb up on the top shelf. The train, slowly, out of town, under the wheels of the uppermost tapped downstream railway bridge over the Vyatka, and then there were meadows and woods, among which at times sounded the horn of our locomotive. I slept for a while.
As long as we go, is to tell a little about the history of this road. Though she and secondary, and connects the two highways (Transsib and Pechora), - in fact, she's older than both of them. This is a historic Perm-Kotlas Railway (Transsib section from Kirov to Perm also historically refers to it), built in the years 1895-99 for the incoming connection in the Volga basin with the river Vyatka region of the Northern Dvina and the possibility of export to the northern region, as well as exports through Arkhangelsk port grain from Vyatka province. Whereas the Kotlas was a Komi-Zyryanskaya village with marina on the river bank of the Northern Dvina and the city it was in 1917.
Already shortly after Kirov almost disappear meadows and dense forests appear.
In the 1930s, in the north of the Kirov region is actively developing the forest industry, largely using the labor of prisoners Vyatsk ITL (Vyatlag), and after the war - the German prisoners of war. And in our time Vyatsky North - a lumber region, where almost every village lives logging. In Soviet times, a lot of wood-narrow-gauge railway was built in these places, some of them in our time have already discussed. And by-the-line Kirov - Kotlas There are two low-density branch: Susolovka located - Hristoforova (1930) to the north of the region and, more to the south - Panasyuk - Podosinovets (1966).
Look out the window. Half an hour later - Yurya station in the village of the same name (5000 inhabitants), with a new station.
In the past, from the Kirov in Kotlas passenger train went from the category of six hundredth, where individual cars uncoupled in ants, and Pinyuge Luz. There was also a separate car to Hristoforova.
Going farther north, on the small stations often go and sit passengers, including the railroad. It's, like, great station.
I have long stood at the open window, breathing the fresh air, which mingled with the smoke of the locomotive, and looking at the forest, where the sound of wheels was heard a melodious echo.
The clock is already nine o'clock. The train passed by leaving the north-east highway Kirov - Syktyvkar, and then the window shows a small town, factory buildings and large-scale lesopogruz.
This town Murashi numbering six and a half thousand inhabitants (the decay of the Soviet Union there were 10 thousand, and in 1950 - 14). It arose as a settlement at the station in 1895 (like most on the line), and the city was in 1944.
Station in ants - apparently, the late Soviet. The train is 23 minutes here, and you can walk a little.