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 BC apparatus is considered to be the Directorate 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 city, st. Lenin 17.
• Phone number: +375 17 225-63-10 (Information).
• Fax: +375 17 227-56-48.
• Official site www.rw.by.
• Hours of Operation: The Help Desk is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Belarusian Railway

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

The site posted online schedule Belarusian railway trains:

Helpful information: Belarusian Chygunka offers to visit the site, which is quite modern and easy to use. Here you will find all the necessary information. The site also has a line that facilitates the search for 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 operation and ticket prices.

Promotions, discounts, special offers

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

Current bonuses when buying tickets for the Belarusian railway at the link:

Discounts for travel in the direction Belarus-Russia

They depend on the timing of the sale of tickets to the total cost of travel on the territory of the Russian and Belarusian Railways for passengers when buying compartment and SV cars.

This offer includes:

• 20% discount on the total fare, subject to sale between 60 and 30 days before the departure of the required train.
• 15% discount on the total cost when selling a ticket from 30 to 21 days before the train departure.
• 0% discount for ticket purchase from 20 to 11 days before the train departure.
• When traveling in class CB cars, as well as compartment cars For trains of the Belarusian Railways in some directions, a discount rate of 10% of the total cost is also applied when purchasing a travel document in the round-trip directions.
• 5% surcharge when selling a ticket from 10 days.

When purchasing a ticket for reserved seat category the car has a 10% discount on side seats.

Note! The discount is valid when buying tickets at the box 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 (starting from 25 persons).

Discounts on travel in Belarus-Lithuania

Passengers who buy a ticket on the Minsk-Vilnius route, upon presentation of travel documents at the ticket offices of the Lithuanian Railway, 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 observed on the website of the BC and the bank.

The Belarusian chygunka is developing the freight transportation infrastructure in every possible way and offers for transportation:

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

Cargo transportation

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

• Articulated - designed for heavy transformers and other bulky goods 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.
• Platform - excellent in use for the transportation of heavy equipment.
• Platforms are used to transport bulky baggage with a total weight of up to 120 tons.

Belarusian Railway transports goods and baggage in accordance with:

• Instructions 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 ДЧ-1835.
• Decree 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 cars and bunker-type cars for the transportation of oil bitumen.
• tariff policy.

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

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

Service classes

Various trains pass by the Belarusian Railway.

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

Its advantages include:

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

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

New train

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

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

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

All you need is to choose the most suitable option convenience and pricing policy.

Nutrition

The trains of the Belarusian Chygunka provide a range of both free and paid services.

The most popular service is catering on trains.



Tea on the train

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

On a paid basis are provided:

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

Additional free services include:

• Bed sheets.
• 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 clean, and the 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, sights, etc. I told. And now I would like to tell you about an integral part and one of the integral symbols of any civilized state - about the Belarusian railway, especially about the system passenger traffic.

Although the Belarusian Railway (hereinafter - BCH, short for 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, short for the official name Ukrzaliznytsya), during this period a lot of differences formed between them, about which, basically, and will be discussed. So, the first and most important difference lies in the classification of rail transportation. In the open spaces of UZ, a more soviet "system of dividing trains into suburban, night passenger (fast, passenger and express) and daytime passenger (Intercity, regional express and regional train), of which only such a concept as a daytime passenger train appeared during independence. "In Soviet times, trains of this format ran like local ones. In Belarus, during independence, the train classification system has changed dramatically, becoming more modern and European. Former commuters changed their name to trains regional lines economy class", passenger trains began to be divided into trains of interregional lines of economy class, business class and international lines. Also, such concepts as trains of city and commercial lines appeared. Each of these subspecies of trains began to have its own markings and colors, symbols these subspecies became 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 stations, stations and inside trains. In this regard, the important advantages of BC in relation to UZ are a much higher degree of modernization of the country's main stations (interactive electronic scoreboards, better and more modern finishing 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 major stations (however, only the owner of a national payment system card can buy a ticket in such a machine , Belkart", on which I managed to get burned once.) In the photo below is the waiting room and the ticket office of one of these modernized train stations, the train station of Grodno station.

Most of the largest Ukrainian railway stations, reconstructed during the 2000s and 2010s, although they do not look like after a nuclear war, are clearly not up to the level of modern ones. Let's just say that such a reconstruction could be considered ideal in the 70s and 80s last century, but not now
Another important factor in rail transportation is the frequency of trains. In this regard, the BC is also significantly ahead of the UZ trains, they run with the Soviet frequency, there are a large number of direct cars, since Soviet times, not a single branch, not counting some sections on the border with other states, has not been canceled.
The third factor by which UZ and BC can be compared is the state of the rolling stock. Here it is also worth noting the advantage of BC - most of the rolling stock on interregional and international lines is either new or from KVRN. It was a shock for me to see modern wagon with a vacuum toilet and an electronic scoreboard, following in the common mode in a regular train. The rolling stock of regional business class lines and city lines consists entirely of modern Swiss-made trains, the so-called Stadler Flirt.
territory of Belarus, in the suburbs of Minsk Fanipol

On regional economy class lines, like our suburban ones, mostly good old electric or diesel trains manufactured by the Riga Carriage Works, although there are also newer examples, such as DP1 (620M) or modernized DR1B

But we also have such instances, so
what can we say that in terms of suburban MVPS, UZ is approximately on the same level as the warhead. Although this statement is debatable, because the Belarusian rolling stock is much better cared for than the Ukrainian one. The photo below is a typical electric train "of the only depot serving Belarusian electric trains-Minsk TC-9


Tariffs are another factor by which our railways can be compared. 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 open spaces, for example, the Lviv Railway) it will cost 15 hryvnias (11,538 Belarusian rubles, 41.6 rubles).
So, it is logical that after discussing all the advantages of the Belarusian Railway, you can safely 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, there may not be controllers or conductors on the evening train to Minsk. And they can simply sit in the car and never go to check or sell tickets during the whole trip. None of the Belarusian stations is closed, none of them has such a thing as platform control of passengers. Also, not a very pleasant fact is the absence of glasses in cup holders in most cars and the absence of many types of social benefits in a state that declares itself 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 BZD occupies a leading position in the national market of transport services. Annually, railway 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 traffic.

Structure of the Belarusian Railway

The Belarusian Railway includes 29 organizations, each of which has the status of a legal entity; 7 separate structural subdivisions (branches); as well as 3 representative offices abroad - in Russia, Kazakhstan and Poland. In total, the Belarusian Railway 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 line.

The Belarusian Railway is 572 passenger stopping points and 320 passenger stations, 19 major stations, including 4 out-of-class ones. On average, more than 200 thousand people are transported by rail per day.

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

Passenger Transportation

« Belarusian gygunka"- a brand with a worldwide reputation. Today, passenger railway communication connects Belarus with Paris, Nice, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest, Vienna, as well as the capitals and administrative centers Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan.

In a message with Russian Federation, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Kazakhstan runs up to 34 pairs of trains of permanent circulation of the Belarusian Railways. 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 changed significantly. Today, passenger transportation by rail common use carried out in the following types of messages:

• urban (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 (stops) located in satellite cities. Today, modern 4-car electric trains of urban lines connect Minsk with three satellite cities: Zaslavl, Rudensk and Smolevichi.

Passengers are in constant demand business class regional 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, trains of regional business class lines 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 train routes of regional business class lines have been introduced on the sections Orsha-Krichev-Kommunary, Kommunary-Mogilev; in September 2013 - on the Minsk-Zhlobin section; in 2014 - on the Minsk-Molodechno section.

Economy Regional Lines provide transport services to the segment of passengers not covered by business class lines, and are the most popular 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 themselves. 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 communication 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 updating the rolling stock. Within the framework of the State Program for the Development of Railway Transport of the Republic of Belarus for 2011-2015, the 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.

The procedure for purchasing travel documents

The sale of tickets on the Belarusian Railways is fully automated and is carried out through the Express-3 automated control system.

For the implementation of travel documents for trains of regional lines of economy class 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 Railway was put into operation on the website www.poezd.rw.by

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

Benefits of transit

The advantageous geopolitical location of the Belarusian Railway at the crossroads of the II and IX pan-European transport corridors, at the junction of the 1435 mm and 1520 mm gauge determines its role as the most important link between the countries of Europe and Asia. Today priority The activity of the Belarusian Railways is the development of transit traffic. The share of transit in the total volume of freight traffic along the Belarusian highway is about 30%.

Belarus has formed a number of sustainable railway lines transit traffic. 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 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 is important.

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. On the border with Poland, the main capacities of the transshipment and storage infrastructure are concentrated, there is a significant potential for organizing the transshipment of bulk cargo. Cargo terminals provide a full range of services for the processing and storage of various types of cargo.

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

For recent years the number of regular freight container trains running between China and Western Europe. Today, the following trains run regularly on the Belarusian Railways:

• 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 Railways is the modernization of infrastructure. One of the most important projects in this area is the electrification of railway lines.

Today fully electrified railway lines within 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 completion of the electrification of the Zhlobin-Gomel section, the operational length of the electrified sections of the Belarusian Railways will be 1091.2 km or 19.5% of total length highways.

In September 2015, the Belarusian Railways began electrification of the Molodechno-Gudogai-state border section.

Much attention is paid to the development of freight infrastructure. In 2015, the Belarusian Railways completed the modernization of the Kolyadichi City Goods Station, which is part of the Transport and Logistics Center Minsk, as a result of which its storage and handling capacities were significantly increased. Today, the Kolyadichi station is the most important link in the organization of export-import freight traffic on the Belarusian Railway, including container traffic. At the Kolyadichi station, cargo is processed and transshipped to the regions of Belarus, as well as to the CIS countries, the Baltic States and far abroad using the capabilities 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:

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

Representative offices of the Belarusian Railways abroad:

• In Russian federation
  Russia, 125047, Moscow, pl. Tverskaya Zastava, 5a, office 219,
  Phone/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 the site is a modern and fast 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 paying for boarding 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, it can be completed by clicking on the appropriate 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's better not to risk it.print e-ticket you can at any time before the train departure at the box office at the station or at the self-registration terminal. To do this, you need a 14-digit order code (you will receive it by SMS after payment) and the original ID.