THE FREIGHT STEAMS AND VOLUME OF USSURI RAILROAD IN THE BEGINNING OF ITS EXPLOITATION (THE BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY)

Abstract

This article contains detailed analysis of freight steams and volume of Ussuri Railroad, the Far East part of Great Siberian railroad. The time period covers the beginning of XX century from 1901 to 1914. The analysis is based upon thorough inspection of every kind of freight such as grain, coal and wooden construction materials. The survey of freight dynamics resulted in key feature of freight volume growth which is considerable (about 30m of poods) and equal influence of increase in transit and internal market goods.In addition a brief survey of operational income, expenditure and profit is conducted to make a comparison between freight volume and operational profit (losses). It revealed that a positive profit from Ussuri Railroad exploitation first appeared in the year of 1911 when the fright soared from 70m to 89m of poods. Moreover it was stable during the period of 1912-1914 because of persistent level of fright volume, which was achieved in 1911.As a conclusion a recommendation is made about the necessity to orient current modernization of Eastern Siberian railroads both on transit and internal Far East market goods to achieve a positive profit from railroad exploitation and government investments.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2014-4-3

Keywords

• Ussuri Railroad
• freight statistics
• Primorskaya province
• the development of Russian Far East
• The Great Siberian Railway
• at the turn of the XX century