Children's railway

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A children's railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where teenagers learn railway professions. This phenomenon originated in the USSR and was greatly developed in Soviet times. The world's first children's railway was opened Moscow, in Gorky Park^[1] in 1932. At the breakup of the USSR, 52 children's railways existed in the country.

Many children's railways are still functioning in post-Soviet states and Eastern European countries. Examples include a children's railway in Minsk, one in Yaroslavl and many other cities.

Contents 1 List of children's railways 1.1 Armenia 1.2 Belarus 1.3 China 1.4 Georgia 1.5 Germany 1.6 Hungary 1.7 Kazakhstan 1.8 Poland 1.9 Slovakia 1.10 Ukraine 1.11 Uzbekistan 1.12 Russia 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] List of children's railways

There are children's railways situated in following cities:

[edit] Armenia Erevan [edit] Belarus Children's Railroad (Minsk) [edit] China Harbin [edit] Georgia Tbilisi [edit] Germany Berliner Parkeisenbahn Dresdner Parkeisenbahn [edit] Hungary The Gyermekvasút in Budapest [edit] Kazakhstan Karaganda [edit] Poland Chorzów Poznań [edit] Slovakia Košice [edit] Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Kharkiv Kiev Lutsk Lviv Rivne Uzhhorod Zaporizhia [edit] Uzbekistan Tashkent

[edit] Russia Chelyabinsk Chita Ekaterinburg Irkutsk Khabarovsk Krasnoyarsk Kratovo Kurgan Nizhny Novgorod Novomoskovsk Novosibirsk Orenburg Penza Rostov-Na-Donu Sankt-Petersburg Svobodny Tyumen Ufa Vladikavkaz Volgograd Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Yaroslavl

[edit] See also

• Ridable miniature railway

[edit] References

1. ^ Children's railways: Gorky Park, Moscow (Russian)

[edit] External links

• Children's railways of the USSR (Russian)
• railways.id.ru (English)