The Belarusian Railway (Belarusian Chygunka) is a state association subordinate to the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus. It includes 66 organizations with the status of a legal entity, as well as three representative offices.

The BCH apparatus is considered to be the Office of the Belarusian Railway. Also BC is connected with the railways of some countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, Ukraine).

Contact information of the Belarusian railway:

• Address: Minsk st. Lenin 17.
• Phone number: +375 17 225-63-10 (Information).
• Fax: +375 17 227-56-48.
• Official site www.rw.by.
• Working hours: the information desk works around the clock and seven days a week.

Belarusian Railway

The railway provides moving services not only to anywhere in the country, but also in an international format.
Belarusian chugunka: official website of the company

The site contains an online train schedule of the Belarusian railway:

Useful information: Belarusian chygunka offers to visit a site that is quite modern and easy to use. You will find all the information you need here. The site also has a line that makes it easier to find information, and a personal account of the Belarusian chygunka.

Moreover, the site is constantly updated, so it is convenient to follow the news of the railway and learn about innovations, changes in train running and ticket prices.

Promotions, discounts, special offers

The Belarusian Railway takes care of its passengers, providing them with various conveniences in the form of a system of special offers.

Actual bonuses when buying tickets for the Belarusian railway by the link:

Discounts on travel on the route Belarus-Russia

They depend on the terms of ticket sales to the total cost of travel on the territory of the Russian and Belarusian Railways for passengers when purchasing compartment and SV carriages.

This offer includes:

• 20% discount on the total fare, subject to sale in the period from 60 to 30 days before the departure of the required train.
• 15% discount on the total price when the ticket is sold from 30 to 21 days before the train departure.
• 0% discount on the purchase of a ticket from 20 to 11 days before the departure of the train.
• When traveling in SV class carriages, as well as compartment carriages of BZD trains in some directions, a discount rate of 10% of the total cost is also applied when buying a travel document in the round-trip directions.
• 5% surcharge for ticket sales from 10 days.

When buying a ticket for the second-class carriage category, there is a 10% discount on the side seats.

Note! The discount is valid when purchasing tickets at the ticket office at the railway station.

When buying tickets for a group in the direction of the CIS countries, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, a discount is provided:

• 20% of the fare for a group of adults (10 - 24 people).
• 30% of the cost of a group of adults (from 25 persons).

Discounts on travel between Belarus and Lithuania

Passengers buying a ticket on the Minsk-Vilnius route, upon presentation of travel documents at the ticket offices of the Lithuanian Railway, will receive a 10% discount.

Express program

It determines the procedure for calculating and paying money as the purchase of tickets by program participants using plastic cards and non-cash purchase of tickets issued on the official website of the BC.

Note! Such a program must be monitored on the BC and the bank's website.

Belarusian chygunka develops the infrastructure of freight transportation in every possible way and offers for transportation:

• Oversized luggage.
• Long loads.
• Heavy loads.

Cargo transportation

All this is included in a special composition of railway transporters, divided into types:

• Articulated - designed for heavy transformers and other bulky cargo weighing up to 5000 tons.
• Transport couplings are used when transporting long loads.
• Well - designed for loads weighing up to 120 tons. Such loads have a large height or diameter.
• Areas - excellent for transporting heavy equipment.
• Platforms are used to transport bulky baggage with a total weight of up to 120 tons.

Belarusian railway carries out transportation of goods and baggage in accordance with:

• Instruction for the transportation of oversized and heavy cargo on the railways of the CIS member states, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Estonia DCh-1835.
• By the Resolution of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of the Republic of Belarus No. 8 dated January 22, 2018.
• Rules for the carriage of goods.
• Regulations for the transport of dangerous goods by rail.
• Rules for the carriage of liquid cargo in bulk in tank wagons and bunker-type wagons for the transportation of oil bitumen.
• Tariff policy.

Note! The Belarusian railway is being improved and strives to meet all modern requirements. This desire set her the task of opening "Electronic Transportation". In such a system, it is proposed to place an order for cargo transportation, as well as additional services and obtain all the necessary information.

The operation is carried out directly through the official website, through interaction with employees.

Service classes

Various trains run along the Belarusian Railway.

One of the new and most comfortable types is the electric train.

Its advantages include:

• Covering a distance of 300 km in 3 hours.
• Modern interior.
• The presence of two classes, on which the cost of the ticket depends.

All cars of the electric train are distinguished by spaciousness of seats for passengers and comfortable seats, the ability to charge the phone and luggage racks. There is a buffet on the territory of the train.

New train

Fast trains also pass through the territory of the Belarusian Chygunaks according to the directions:

• Minsk - Moscow "Belarus"
• Polotsk - Moscow "Dvina".

• Branded group of cars Minsk - St. Petersburg as part of the fast train No. 52/51 Brest - St. Petersburg

All that is needed is to choose the most suitable option for convenience and pricing policy.

Nutrition

A set of both free and paid services is provided on the trains of the Belorusskaya chygunki.

The most popular service is meals on the trains.



Tea on the train

The conductor can prepare and serve coffee, tea, and other non-alcoholic beverages to the passenger free of charge, if such are included in the cost of the travel document.

On a paid basis the following are provided:

• Coffee, tea, other drinks.
• Confectionery.
• Personal hygiene items.

Additional free services include:

• Linens.
• Board games.
• First aid.
• Seat belts.
• Additional information, including stops at the stations of the Belarusian railway.

The Belarusian railway is considered the most comfortable and cleanest, and the service staff is pleasant and polite.

As you, dear and respected readers, may have noticed from my previous posts, not so long ago (a month ago) I returned from a trip to our northern neighbor, the Republic of Belarus, about cities, their appearance, attractions, etc. I told you. And now I would like to tell about an integral part and one of the integral symbols of any civilized state - about the Belarusian Railway, especially about the system of passenger transportation.

Although the Belarusian Railway (hereinafter BCh, abbreviated from the official name BZD-Belarusian Chygunka), some 25 years ago was part of the same huge railway transport system as the railways of Ukraine (hereinafter UZ, abbreviated from the official name Ukrzaliznytsia ), during this period a lot of differences were formed between them, which, in the main, will be discussed. So, the first and most important difference lies in the classification of railway transportation. passenger (fast, passenger and express) and day passenger (Intercity, regional express and regional train), of which only such a concept as a day passenger train has appeared since independence. "In Soviet times, trains of this format ran like local ones. Since independence, the train classification system has changed dramatically, becoming more modern and European. changed the name to, trains of regional economy class lines ", passenger trains were later divided into trains of interregional lines of economy class, business class and international lines. Also such concepts as trains of urban and commercial lines appeared. Each of these subtypes of trains began to have their markings and colors, the symbols of these subspecies are the types of flowers growing on the territory of Belarus

Now let's move on to such an important factor as the quality of service and service at railway stations, stations and inside trains.In this regard, an important advantage of the BC in relation to UZ is a much higher degree of modernization of the main stations of the country (interactive electronic scoreboards, better and more modern decoration of cash registers halls and waiting rooms), the lack of division into suburban, intercity and international ticket offices, the ability to buy a train ticket using a payment card of international systems, the presence of self-service ticket machines at the largest train stations (however, only the owner of the card of the national payment system can buy a ticket in such a machine , Belkart ", on which I managed to burn myself 1 time.) In the photo below, there is a waiting room and a ticket office of one of these modernized train stations, the station of Grodno station.

Most of the largest Ukrainian railway stations, reconstructed during the 2000s and 2010s, look, though not like after a nuclear war, but clearly do not reach the level of modern ones. Let's just say, such a reconstruction could be considered ideal in the 70s and 80s. last century, but not now
Another important factor in railway transportation is the frequency of trains running. In this regard, BC is also significantly ahead of UZ trains run with the Soviet frequency, there is a large number of direct cars, since Soviet times, not on a single line, not counting some sections on the border with other states. the motion has not been canceled.
The third factor by which one can compare UZ and BC is the condition of the rolling stock. It is also worth noting the advantage of BC - most of the rolling stock of interregional and international lines is either new or open. It was a shock to me to see a modern carriage with a vacuum toilet and an electronic scoreboard, The rolling stock of regional business class lines and city lines entirely consists of modern Swiss-made trains, the so-called Stadler Flirt. By the way, these trains have recently been produced on
territory of Belarus, in the suburb of Minsk Fanipole

On regional economy-class lines, like ours on suburban ones, mostly good old-electric or diesel trains produced by the Riga Carriage Works, although there are newer copies, such as DP1 (620M) or modernized DR1B

But we also have this kind of copies, so
that we can say that in terms of the suburban MVPS UZ is approximately on the same level with the warhead. Although this statement is controversial, because the Belarusian rolling stock is much better maintained than the Ukrainian one. The photo below is a typical train "of the only depot serving Belarusian electric trains-Minsk TCh-9


Another factor by which one can compare our railways is tariffs. It can be said with confidence that in Belarus they are quite cheap, more expensive than in Ukraine, but quite adequate to the incomes of the local population. you will pay 16,800 Belarusian rubles (21.84 UAH, 60.66 rubles), while in Ukraine (in the vastness of, for example, the Lviv railway) it will cost 15 hryvnia (11,538 Belarusian rubles, 41.6 rubles).
So, it is logical that after discussing all the advantages of the Belarusian Railways, you can calmly move on to its disadvantages. The first and most important of them is the high degree of negligence of the employees of the controlling link, in the evening train to Minsk there may not be any inspectors or conductors at all. sit in a carriage and never go to check or sell tickets during the whole trip. None of the Belarusian railway stations are unkempt, none of them have such a concept as perone control of passengers. It is also not a very pleasant fact that there are no glasses in the cup holders in most carriages. and the absence of many types of social benefits in a state that declares itself to be social.
But in general terms, we can say with confidence that the warhead is still constantly progressing, it has a more or less bright present and a good and understandable future, which, alas, cannot be said about the native UZ.

For many residents of Belarus, rail transport is one of the most comfortable, reliable and affordable travel options. The history of the Belarusian railway began more than 150 years ago - in 1862, when train traffic was opened on the Grodno-Porechye section.

Today Belarusian Railways occupies a leading position in the national market of transport services. Every year, rail transport in Belarus transports more than 140 million tons of cargo and 90 million passengers, providing over 60% of the country's total freight turnover and 30% of passenger turnover.

The structure of the Belarusian Railway

The Belarusian Railway includes 29 organizations, each of which has the status of a legal entity; 7 separate structural divisions (branches); as well as 3 representative offices abroad - in Russia, Kazakhstan and Poland. In total, the Belarusian Railways employs over 79,000 people. Among them are representatives of about 500 professions. Railway workers honor their traditions - about 400 labor dynasties work on the highway.

The Belarusian Railway has 572 passenger stopping points and 320 passenger stations, 19 large stations, including 4 out of class. More than 200 thousand people are transported by rail on average per day.

The organization of cargo transportation is provided by 370 stations: 9 of them are sorting stations and 27 are cargo stations. The average daily handling volume exceeds 200,000 tons.

Passenger Transportation

« Belarusian chygunka"- a brand with a worldwide reputation. Today, passenger rail links connect Belarus with Paris, Nice, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest, Vienna, as well as the capitals and administrative centers of Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan.

In communication with the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Kazakhstan, up to 34 pairs of trains of constant circulation form the Belarusian Railways run. Including the Belarusian Railway forms 6 international branded trains, of which 5 are in communication with the Russian Federation and 1 with the capital of Ukraine.

In recent years, the system of passenger rail transportation in Belarus has significantly changed. Today, passenger transportation by public rail transport is carried out in the following types of communications:

• city ​​(city lines);
• regional (regional lines);
• interregional (interregional lines);
• international (international lines);
• commercial (commercial lines).

City lines represent the transportation of passengers within the city of Minsk, the regional center and beyond, but not further than stations (stopping points) located in satellite cities. Today, modern 4-car electric trains of city lines connect Minsk with three satellite cities: Zaslavl, Rudensky and Smolevichi.

Passengers are in constant demand regional business class trains... On November 19, 2011, regular traffic was opened on the Minsk-Baranovichi-Minsk and Baranovichi-Brest-Baranovichi routes, and a month and a half later, business-class regional trains began to run on the Minsk-Orsha-Minsk route. The work carried out to modernize the infrastructure and electrify the Osipovichi-Bobruisk section made it possible, starting from April 6, 2013, to carry out transportation by trains of regional business class lines between Minsk and Bobruisk.

Since May 2013, new routes of business-class regional lines have been introduced on the Orsha-Krichev-Kommunary, Kommunary-Mogilev sections; in September 2013 - at the Minsk-Zhlobin section; in 2014 - on the Minsk-Molodechno section.

Regional economy lines provide transport services for the segment of passengers not covered by business class lines, and are the most massive type of transportation.

Interregional lines represent the transportation of passengers between Minsk and regional centers, as well as between the regional centers of the republic. Depending on the speed of delivery to the destination, the number of stops along the route, interregional lines are divided into business and economy class.

The movement of trains of interregional lines of business class is carried out on the directions connecting the capital with Brest, Gomel and Vitebsk.

International lines- transportation between the Republic of Belarus and other states. They provide passenger traffic between the city of Minsk, regional centers of the republic and capitals, as well as individual regions of other states.

The Belarusian Railway pays great attention to improving the quality of passenger service and upgrading rolling stock. Within the framework of the State Program for the Development of Railway Transport of the Republic of Belarus for 2011-2015, Belarusian Railways purchased 7 passenger diesel locomotives; 16 electric trains manufactured by the Swiss company "Stadler Bussnang AG"; 9 diesel trains of various composition developed by the Polish company PESA Bydgoszсz JSC.

Procedure for the acquisition of travel documents

Ticket sales on the Belarusian Railway are fully automated and carried out through the Express-3 automated control system.

To sell travel documents for trains of regional economy-class lines and city lines using bank payment cards, self-service payment and information terminals have been installed.

In February 2011, a system for selling travel documents of the Belarusian Railways was put into operation on the website www.poezd.rw.by.

Electronic registration has been introduced when purchasing tickets via the Internet, which allows a passenger to travel on a train in accordance with an order paid via the Internet without issuing a travel document at the ticket office.

Transit benefits

The favorable geopolitical location of the Belarusian Railway at the intersection of the II and IX pan-European transport corridors, at the junction of the 1435 mm and 1520 mm gauge, determines its role as an important link between the countries of Europe and Asia. Today, the priority area of ​​the Belarusian Railways is the development of transit traffic. The share of transit in the total volume of freight traffic on the Belarusian railway is about 30%.

A number of stable railway directions of transit cargo flows have formed in Belarus. First of all, this is the transportation of goods to the ports of Latvia along the Zaolsha-Bigosovo route, as well as in communication with the Kaliningrad region and Lithuania. Transportation to and from the EU countries is important within the framework of the Pan-European transport corridor No. II, as well as between the countries of the Baltic and Black Seas within the framework of the Pan-European transport corridor No. IX.

The transfer of goods to the Belarusian Railways in the East-West-East traffic is carried out at three border crossings: Brest-Terespol, Bruzgi-Kuznitsa Belostotskaya and Svisloch-Semyanuvka. The main capacities of the transshipment and storage infrastructure are concentrated on the border with Poland, there is a significant potential for organizing the transshipment of bulk cargo. The cargo terminals provide a full range of services for the handling and storage of goods of various nomenclature.

The Belarusian Railway is ready to provide reliable transport links between China and European countries, to become the optimal transport and logistics link in the implementation of large-scale projects in the field of economics and transport logistics.

Over the past years, the number of regular container freight trains running between China and Western Europe has been steadily growing. Today, trains such as:

• China - Poland (Chengdu-Lodz);
• China - Germany (Chengzhou - Hamburg);
• "New Silk Road" China - Germany (Chongqing-Duisburg);
• BMW Germany - China (Leipzig - Shenyang);
• Ford Germany - China (Duisburg - Chongqing);
• "Saule" Lithuania - China;
• China - Germany (Wuhan - Hamburg);
• China - Spain (Yiwu - Madrid).

Infrastructure modernization

The strategic goal of the Belarusian Railway is to modernize the infrastructure. One of the most important projects in this area is the electrification of railway lines.

Today, the railway lines are fully electrified within the framework of the II Pan-European Transport Corridor.

A large-scale investment project is being implemented to electrify the Gomel-Zhlobin-Osipovichi and Zhlobin-Kalinkovichi sections of the IX Pan-European Transport Corridor. In September 2013, the first stage of this project was implemented - the Zhlobin-Osipovichi section was opened.

After the completion of the electrification of the Zhlobin-Gomel section, the operational length of the electrified sections of the Belarusian Railways will be 1,091.2 km, or 19.5% of the total length of the line.

In September 2015, the Belarusian Railway started electrification of the Molodechno-Gudogai-state border section.

Much attention is paid to the development of the infrastructure of the cargo economy. In particular, in 2015, Belarusian Railways completed the modernization of the Kolyadichi City Freight Station, which is part of the Minsk Transport and Logistics Center, as a result of which its storage and processing capacities were significantly increased. Today, the Kolyadichi station is the most important link in the organization of export-import freight traffic on the Belarusian Railways, including container ones. At the Kolyadichi station, cargo handling and transshipment is carried out to the regions of Belarus, as well as to the CIS countries, the Baltic States and far abroad, using the possibilities of rail and road transport.

Cooperation with foreign countries

The Belarusian Railway actively cooperates with the railway administrations of the CIS countries, the Baltic States, the European Union and far abroad, and also participates in the activities of such international transport organizations as:

• The Council for Railway Transport of the Member States of the Commonwealth;
• Organization for Cooperation of Railways;
• International Union of Railways;
• Coordination conference on the planning and implementation of transportation in international passenger traffic
• International Association "Coordination Council for Transsiberian Transportation".

Representative offices of the Belarusian Railway abroad:

• In Russian federation
  Russia, 125047, Moscow, pl. Tverskoy Zastava, 5a, office 219,
  Tel./fax (+7 499) 262 94 27,
  [email protected]

• in the Republic of Kazakhstan
  Kazakhstan, 010000, Astana, st. D. Kunaeva, 6,
  Tel. (+7 7172) 60 04 99, fax (+7 7172) 60 04 98,
  [email protected]

• in the Republic of Poland
  Republic of Poland, PL 00-681 Warsaw, ul. Hoza 63/67,
  Phone: tel./fax (+48 22) 47 44 080, tel. (+48 22) 47 44 822
  [email protected]

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What is an electronic ticket and electronic registration?

Buying an electronic ticket to a website is a modern and quick way to issue a travel document without the participation of a cashier or operator.When buying an electronic railway ticket, seats are redeemed immediately, at the time of payment.After payment, to board the train, you must either go through electronic registration, or print a ticket at the station.Electronic registration not available for all orders. If registration is available, you can go through it by clicking on the corresponding button on our website. You will see this button immediately after payment. You will then need your original ID and a printout of your boarding pass to board the train. Some conductors do not require a printout, but it is better not to risk it.Print e-ticket can be at any time before the departure of the train at the ticket office at the station or at the self-check-in terminal. To do this, you need a 14-digit order code (you will receive it via SMS after payment) and an original ID.