Private company
Ukrainian Railways
Logo: Укрзалізниця, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
State-owned railway company in Ukraine
Ukrainian Railways, or PAT 'Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ)' (Ukrainian: ПАТ "Укрзалізни́ця (УЗ)"), is a state-owned joint-stock company administering railway infrastructure and rail transport in Ukraine; a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country. Ukrainian Railways is the world's sixth largest rail passenger transporter and world's seventh largest freight transporter.2 It is headquartered in Kyiv.1 It employed about 375,900 people.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
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Ukrainian Railways, or PAT 'Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ)' (Ukrainian: ПАТ "Укрзалізни́ця (УЗ)"), is a state-owned joint-stock company administering railway infrastructure and rail transport in Ukraine; a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country. Ukrainian Railways is the world's sixth largest rail passenger transporter and world's seventh largest freight transporter. As of 2020, the total length of the main broad-gauge (1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)) railroad network was 19,787 kilometres (12,295 mi), making it the 13th largest in the world. Ukraine also has many stretches of standard-gauge railway (1,435 mm), and is currently working to expand these in order to improve its connections to the European Union.2
Corporate structure
Ukrainian Railways sits at the top of its group. 33 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.
- Ukrainian Railways Kyiv
- Cisdnieper Railways Subsidiary · Dnipro
- Dnipro Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Ukraine
- Kryvyi Rih Railway Transportation Directorate Subsidiary · Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
- Zaporizhia directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
- Crimean Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Simferopol
- Donetsian Railway Subsidiary · Donetsk
- Krasnoliman Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Lyman, Ukraine
- Luhansk Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary
- Lviv Railways Subsidiary · Lviv
- Ivano-Frankivsk Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
- Lviv Directorate of Railways Transportation Subsidiary
- Rivne Railway Directorate Subsidiary
- Ternopil Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary
- Uzhhorod Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Uzhhorod, Ukraine
- Odesa Railways Subsidiary · Odesa
- Kherson Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary
- Odesa Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary
- Shevchenko Railway Directorate Subsidiary · Smila, Ukraine
- Znamyansk Directorate of Railway Transport Subsidiary
- Southern Railway Subsidiary · Kharkiv
- Kharkiv Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary
- Kupyansk Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary
- Poltava Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Poltava, Ukraine
- Sumy Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary
- Southwestern Railways Subsidiary · Kyiv
- Konotop Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Konotop, Ukraine
- Korosten Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Korosten, Ukraine
- Kozyatyn Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Koziatyn, Ukraine
- Kyiv Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Kyiv, Ukraine
- Zhmerynka Directorate of Railway Transportation Subsidiary · Zhmerynka, Ukraine
- Ukrainian Railway Speed Company Subsidiary · Kyiv, Ukraine
- Днепропетровский тепловозоремонтный завод Subsidiary · Dnipro, Soviet Union
- Cisdnieper Railways Subsidiary · Dnipro
Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.
What it owns
What Ukrainian Railways reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.
Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)
- Cisdnieper Railways
- Crimean Directorate of Railway Transportation
- Lviv Railways
- Southern Railway
- Southwestern Railways
Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1
Subsidiaries and ownership
Owners
- Ukraine
Subsidiaries
- Cisdnieper Railways
- Donetsian Railway
- Lviv Railways
- Odesa Railways
- Southern Railway
- Southwestern Railways
- Ukrainian Railway Speed Company
Also owns
From Wikidata.1
Acquisitions
- 1991Acquired Lviv Railways1
Timeline
- 1991Founded Founded in Kyiv1
Links
- Websiteuz.gov.ua1
- X (Twitter)x.com/Ukrzaliznytsia1
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/Ukrzaliznytsia1
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/ukrainianrailways1
- YouTubewww.youtube.com/channel/UCMHG-hPVOreAcfJGxRbmgCg1
- WikipediaUkrainian Railways
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ923337
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataUkrainian Railways on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaUkrainian Railways on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsUkrainian Railways logo by Укрзалізниця, Public domain
- 4Wikimedia CommonsUkrainian Railways photo by Володимир Криницький, Public domain