Crimean Directorate of Railway Transportation

The Crimean Peninsula Railway was first established between Sevastopol and Balaklava during the Crimean War (1854–1856) when the region was under British administration. At that time, railroad freight was shipped from Balaklava Bay to support the front lines. However, following the 1856 Treaty of Paris, the British dismantled the railway and sold the tracks to Turkey as part of the peace settlement.

Railway communication between the Crimean Peninsula and mainland Russia was established in 1875. The railway, constructed by Russian businessman P.I. Gubonin, connected Sevastopol to the Lozova station, which was linked to Kharkov and Moscow at that time. In 1895, the railway network was extended to Feodosia. A proposed railway project from Sevastopol to Yalta in the late 1880s and early 1900s was never realized due to the region's high seismic activity, which was deemed dangerous during Soviet times.