http://www.semaphore.ru "Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo" Publishing House - books, journals and brochures for railway fans and railway modelers en http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/buno05.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/buno05.htm The key material of the issue is the first part of big article by Andrey Myasnikov and Michael Kuchenev about the trip to the Great Britain to the annual festival of tram models in Manchester. Besides the description of the festival which was a lot interesting, authors also tell about the English remarkable railways and a municipal transportation. The material abounds author's photos, which finely illustrate the text. Except that, the issue has a continuation of a narration by Pavel Puzanov about evolution of Moscow Metro payment system; the ending of the story by Michael Egorov about the sloppiness that reigned in the Moscow municipal transportation in 1960 - 70 years, Michael Kuchenev's report on the first meeting of electrotransport amateurs in Nizhny Novgorod, and also traditional materials on model making by Leonid Moskalev and Michael Egorov. Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:58:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zdno51.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zdno51.htm Our dear authors continue to acquaint readers with a history and the present state of railways of foreign countries. Particularly, this issue brings the beginning of the article by Dmitry Nosov about railways of Mongolia and the ending of Leonid Smirnov's narration about the Bulgarian railways. Those readers who prefer reading about Russian railways will find Vladimir Burakshaev's material about Mesherskaya narrow-gauge railway and also the story about retro-tour to the Olonetskiy Region, this time described by Feodor Sofronov - the art and music critic. Nikolay Sedykh, the participant of China events of 1945, continues to publish his memoirs. In our opinion, it will be reasonably interesting for you to get acquainted with the process of making EMU-trains of EM series, which have received a nickname "White Death", and were manufactured at the Moscow Locomotive Repair Works (the MLRZ). Pavel Mihailushkin, a student of Moscow Railway Transport University (the MIIT) shares it. In this issue there is also a chronicle of the last events in Russian locomotive engineering and the amateur movement, traditional materials on models making, and the literary page where another story by Leonid Moskalev is published. Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:59:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/LINKS/links.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/LINKS/links.htm In the links section devoted to resources involved in model making, we added information regarding railway models and their manufacturers in the territory of former GDR. Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:32:00 +0400 Site Sections http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/COL/col.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/COL/col.htm Our Publishing House has issued a new brochure "The History of the One Bridge" in the "ZHD-Collection" #11 that can be purchased at our office. It's price is 6 euros. Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:57:00 +0400 Supplements http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/bugel.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/bugel.htm Our Publishing House has issued the anthology "Bow" #6 that can be purchased at our office. It's price is 6 euros. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:53:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/COL/zdkno11.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/COL/zdkno11.htm The historical sketch is devoted to an outstanding engineering construction, the last one of known engineer Nikolay A. Belelubskiy, who constructed almost 100 bridges in Russia. The Simbirsk ferry was his latest work, and the most popular. This construction promoted prompt development of Zavolzhie, strengthening connections with the European Russia, increasing Simbirsk's role as a large transport unit. The sketch is based on the big volume of an archival material for the first time submitted for evaluation of a wide audience. The history of bridge transition from 1908 to 2006 is consistently reflected, the course of designing, construction, operation and reconstruction of the bridge is covered in detail. A fire at the construction (July 7, 1914) and an accident with steam ship "Alexander Suvorov" (June 5, 1983) are also described in detail. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:25:00 +0300 Supplements http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zddelo.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zddelo.htm Our Publishing House has issued the anthology "Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo" #52 that can be purchased at our office. It's price is 6 euros. Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:52:00 +0300 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/buno06.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/buno06.htm The anthology opens the story about the development and the modern condition of the Ivanovo tram constructed in 1934. The history of designing and construction of the Novocherkassk tram that appeared 20 years after the Ivanovo "colleague" has been described in the same detail. The anthology also informs on a symbol of an adjusted life of Abkhazia - the Sukhumy trolley bus. Doubtless interest is represented with a clause on tram cars LT-5 of manufacture of Lugansky Works, which almost disappeared from the Moscow streets. Continuation of the story about travel to the tram cities of England will not leave indifferent fans of tram olden times and the present. It is possible to see what not indifferent and keen people can make of the story of the National Tram Museum. In the finishing part of the clause about all variety of tickets of the Moscow underground it is possible to learn, how the system of payment of travel of capital underground has changed and developed in the last years. Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:31:00 +0300 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zddelo.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zddelo.htm Dmitry Kondakov's panoramic photosight is placed in the page of anthology "Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo". Photosight is published in the issue #52 of anthology. Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:46:00 +0300 Site Sections http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zddelo.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zddelo.htm Our Publishing House has issued the anthology "Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo" #53 that can be purchased at our office. It's price is 6 euros. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:36:00 +0300 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zdno52.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zdno52.htm In this issue of the anthology, you will read about the history of creation and the initial days of existence of a unique steam locomotive called "Friend" that was presented to Stalin, the material contributed by our Czech colleagues. You will plunge into the world of traveling under the ferry; take a ride on the "Sergo Orgonikidze" steam engine on an ancient branch of Vesiegonsk town. You will learn about the railway times 10 years back in Turkmenia. Finish traveling on rails of Mongolia and begin your next voyage to Urals mountains and also examine novelties of Russian locomotive engineering at the exhibition that took place in Rizhsky Railway Terminal, Moscow. You will continue to get acquainted with veteran's memoirs of post-war China-Eastern Railway and you will picture how the first Russian Tsarskoselskaya Railway cars looked like 170 years ago. You can sweep on small, but nice Tver narrow-gauge railway and join the celebration of the famous Moscow Amateur's anniversary, who will tell us about steam locomotives serving in the army. Besides, you will get acquainted with remarkable model maker and artist Victor Nikishin and his works and you will take a ride on a preserved steam narrow-gauge railway on Baltic dunes with the editor-in-chief of the anthology. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:58:00 +0300 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/COL/col.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/COL/col.htm Our Publishing House has issued a new brochure "Livenskaya Narrow-Gauge Railway" in the "ZHD-Collection" #12 that can be purchased at our office. It's price is 6 euros. Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:57:00 +0400 Supplements http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zdno53.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zdno53.htm Trips to Urals Mountains and Turkmenia, post-war China and a modern retro-tour on Bologoe-Polotskaya Railway, International Exhibition of Technical Creativity and Railway Congress in Kremlin, - there are just some topics of the coming issue of the anthology. Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:21:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/LINKS/links.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/LINKS/links.htm In the links section we added we link to the official site of Pereslavsky Railway Museum. Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:59:00 +0400 Site Sections http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zds5465.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zds5465.htm Our Publishing House has issued the anthology "Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo" #54 that can be purchased at our office. It's price is 6 euros. Wed, 21 May 2008 22:23:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/COL/zdkno12.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/COL/zdkno12.htm The historical sketch is based on the initial stage of three narrow-gauge railways which do not exist in the original kind: Livenskaya, Maltsevskaya and Oboyanskaya. Two of them - Livenskaya and Oboyanskaya were remade into a wide-gauge track and now, according to the modern classification are inactive. The network of unique Maltsevkaya railways stopped their existence. The sketch is based on the big volume of an archival material for the first time submitted for evaluation of wide audience. This also includes some information on buildings and construction of railways, a rolling stock, character and volumes of transportations. The majority of data and the facts stated in here are published for the first time. The brochure contains a number of previously unpublished photos from funds of the Central Scientific and Technical Library of Open Society "RZD". Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:15:00 +0400 Supplements http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zdno54.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zdno54.htm The issue begins with articles on the activity of Russian Society of Railway Fans (the VOLZhD). An optimistic, even somewhat pompous report by A. Vulfov, the Society's Chairman, is published along with totally opposite opinion of Leonid Svatikov, who thinks that the Society does not follow the aims it was created for anymore. Another issue, recently discussed during one of the conferences, was organization of retro-tours and railway tourism in Russia. It is covered in Nikolai Karavaev's article. He also covers a meeting of JSC "RZD" (Russian Railways) management representatives with students, held recently in Moscow Railway Transport University (the MIIT) and devoted to the issue of preserving and popularization of our railways' history. Additionally, in this issue you will find the continuation of Nikolai Sedykh's article on Chinese-Western Railway, Maxim Schwarz's material on European railways, the first years of Moscow Railway Modeling Club by Lev Ragozin. Vitaly Vlasenko begins the retelling of his journey from Rostov to Sakhalin; there is also some traditional material on modelism and some other things. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:08:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BOOKS/books.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BOOKS/books.htm In the present time our Publishing House is preparing to print two books: "Our Funiculars" by Sergey Tarhov and Andrey Myasnikov, and also first volume (of 3) "Our Children Railways" by Dmitry Sutyagin. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:11:00 +0400 Non-periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/bugel.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/bugel.htm Our Publishing House has issued the anthology "Bow" #7 that can be purchased at our office. It's price is 6 euros. Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:15:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BOOKS/books.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BOOKS/books.htm Our Publishing House has issued the book wrote by Dmitry Sutyagin "Our Children Railways", volume #1. It's price is 60 euros. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:41:00 +0400 Non-periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BOOKS/books.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BOOKS/books.htm Our Publishing House has issued the book wrote by Sergey Tarhov and Andrey Myasnikov "Our Funiculars". It's price is 50 euros. Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:58:00 +0400 Non-periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/buno07.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/BUGEL/buno07.htm In this issue you will find reviews on the celebration of the 100th anniversary of St. Petersburg's tram and on the condition of Egyptian trams. You will also learn about the pre-war plans to establish a trolleybus system in Kolomna, as well as the way trolleybuses and trams work in the Western Siberia. In the articles devoted to the underground you will find information on the opening of another section of Moscow Metro and on the variety of underground tokens in Atlanta, USA. A variety of other interesting articles can also be found, including materials on tram models. Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:25:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zds5465.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zds5465.htm Our Publishing House has issued the anthology "Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo" #55 that can be purchased at our office. It's price is 6 euros. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:29:00 +0400 Periodicals http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zddelo.htm http://www.semaphore.ru/eng/EDITIONS/ZDDELO/zddelo.htm Maxim Antonyuk's panoramic photosight is placed in the page of anthology "Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo". Photosight is published in the issue #55 of anthology. Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:23:00 +0400 Site Sections