From the history of railway transport (1910-1980)

A horse-drawn tram moves along the rails.

A man and a woman ride a tandem bicycle.

A car drives along a city street, frightening the horses.

View of the front part of the boiler of the Felix Dzerzhinsky (FD) locomotive.

The FD locomotive is at the head of the train.

Cabbies are waiting for passengers at the entrance to Yaroslavsky Station.

The locomotive blows its whistle.

The conductor is at the steps of the carriage.

A veteran engineer receives a waybill.

Blowing the whistle to start the train's movement.

The conductor is on the footboard of the carriage.

The locomotive in clouds of steam on the way.

A locomotive approaches a freight train at one of the railway junctions.

The assistant engineer checks the condition of the locomotive's power unit.

A locomotive at the head of a freight train on its route.

The engineer in the locomotive's cab.

The assistant engineer's face.

A pair of wheels of a locomotive.

A freight train passing along the rails.

The driving wheels of a locomotive.

The engineer in the locomotive's cab.

Fire in the firebox of a steam locomotive boiler.

A gust of crosswind blows the cap off the locomotive driver's head.

The driver closes the cabin window and puts on his cap.

The ammeter scale on the dashboard.

The face of a veteran driver, driving a steam locomotive for the last time before retiring.

View of a section of the road from the cabin of a steam locomotive.

The driver descends from the cabin onto the platform.

The driver watches the lubricator at work.

The veteran driver shakes hands with the young driver Kondratyev and sees him off on his journey.

His co-workers present flowers to the veteran driver during his retirement ceremony.

The driver and his co-workers walk along the platform.

The retired driver, carrying a bouquet of flowers, walks along the path from the gate to his home.

The veteran driver and his family celebrate his retirement at a table on the veranda.

Installation of contact line masts on a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the second half of the 1950s.

Installation of contact wires during the electrification of the railway.

Interior view of the repair shop of the locomotive depot (panorama).

Welder at work.

Repairing a wheelset axle.

Depot workers service a locomotive before sending it on a journey.

The engineer looks out of the locomotive cab.

The engineer in the locomotive cab while moving.

Wheels of a passing locomotive.

Freight trains of various purposes passing along the rails, the duty officer on duty at the section gives the go-ahead signal, the trains pass through the station.

A locomotive and carriages of a passing passenger train in winter.

Students of a railway technical school during classes in the auditoriums.

Equipment of a classroom for classes on the material part of a locomotive.

Faces of students of secondary educational institutions of railway transport.

A lesson on the material part of a locomotive.

The repair team checks the technical condition of a locomotive at an intermediate station on the route.

Engine drivers who have been awarded medals pass by a locomotive.

Engine drivers before setting off on a journey.

A carriage of a children's railway.

The wheels of a locomotive starting to move.

Children wave their hands from the carriage windows.

The face of a young engineer.

A train of a children's railway exits a tunnel.

The face of one of the young passengers.

A carriage coupling.

The wheels of carriages passing along the rails.

A view of the railway track.

Trains with various types of cargo pass along the rails, types of oncoming trains.

The driver's face.

Landscape outside the locomotive's cabin window.

View of one of the railway junctions.

Rails of a railway track.

Cars of a passing freight train.

The duty officer at the siding with a baton in her hand, the duty officer's face.

Trains pass by the siding.

The duty officer goes to her place after the train passes.

The driver in the cabin of an electric train.

Landscapes outside the window.

The driver's face.

A passenger train on a turn.

The drivers' faces while moving.

Railway tracks.

The driver in the locomotive's cabin with a telephone receiver to his ear is negotiating with the dispatcher of the nearest junction.

A freight train on the way.

The driver's face.

The driver is negotiating with the dispatcher on the phone.

Electrified railway tracks.

The assistant driver's face.

The last cars of a passing freight train.

View of an electrified section of the railway, a freight train with an electric locomotive is passing.

View of the right-of-way from the footboard of a carriage.

The engineer and his assistant in the cab of an electric locomotive.

Curving railway tracks.

The face of the engineer of an electric locomotive.

A train with fuel going along the oncoming track.

An electric locomotive at the head of a freight train.

Railway tracks.

The engineer in the cab of a locomotive moving at night.

Autumn roadside landscapes at sunset.

The face of the assistant engineer.

View of a section of the contact line after sunset, a flickering semaphore signal.

The face of the engineer.

Interior view of a corridor of a passenger carriage at night, closed compartment doors.

A freight train with an electric locomotive passes along one of the sections of the route.

Carriages of passenger trains passing along one of the sections of the track.

View of the front parts of red electric locomotives standing at the station platforms.

Arrival board of the next train from St.

Petersburg to Moscow, arrival at the Leningradsky Station of a train arriving from St.

Petersburg.

Electric locomotives at the station platforms.

View of one of the covered platforms.