Hump yards in the former URSS and East Europe

Hello everyone,

I am a German railroad enthusiast specially interested in hump classification yards of the whole world. I have created an international YAHOO group about hump yards:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/humpyardgroup
where I want to post a database of all hump yards of the world. But for doing this I need more informations about hump yards in the former URSS and some parts of Eastern Europe. Thus I ask everyone who knows something about East European and former Sovjet hump yards please to help me and to tell me:

1) Who knows any locations of hump yards in the following parts of the former URSS:
Moldavia (known only Chisinau and Tiraspol'-Sort. -where is the exact situation of the last one?), Armenia, Kazachstan (known only Kustanaj, Astana, Karaganda-Sort., Petropavlovsk - are there hump yards e.g. in Atyrau, Kandagac, Arys', Cimkent or Almaty?), Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tadzikistan, Kirgiztan and the Asian part of Russia? Which is Barnaul's hump yard - Altajskaja or Ukladocnij? And for Cita - Cita I or Karimskaja?

2) In LITHUANIA I know that there are three hump yards. I'm sure of Radviliskis, other possible hump yards are Paneriai and Vaidotai in Vilnius, and Paljemonas in Kovno - who knows it?

3) In BELARUS I know surely the following hump yards: Brest-Severnij and -Vostocnij, Minsk-Sart., Homel-Sart (where is the EXACT location of this yard?). In the Belorussian Encyclopedy other humps are mentionned for Baranovici, Orsa and Zlobin' - who knows exactly which stations in these cities are the hump yards? Who knows other Belorussian hump yards or who knows whether there are hump yards e.g. in Grodno, Vitebsk or Mohilev?

4) UKRAINE: Who knows whether Ki'iv-Darnica and Krasnij Liman are double hump yards? Who knows the EXACT location of the new hump yard in Cornomorskaja northeast of Odessa? In Grebenka the topographic map 1:50.000 shows a "sortirovocnaja stancija" but it doesn't appear on the official UZ map which indicates hump yards. Who knows whether this is really a hump yard or a railroad facility of other kind?

5) AZERBAJCAN: Who knows whether Aljat is a hump yard?

6) EUROPEAN RUSSIA:
a) Who knows whether there are hump yards in Murmansk, Belomorsk, Ar'hangel'sk, Oboserskaja, Vorkuta, Bologo'e, Tver', velikije Luki, V'azma, Beskudnikovo, Kaluga, Su'hinici, L'gov, Tula, Or'el', Kursk, Bel'gorod, Elec, Kastornoje, Valuiki, R'azk, Tambov, Gr'azi, Liski, Millerovo, Taganrog, Timasevskaja, Novorossijsk, Ti'horeckaja, Kavkazkaja, Armavir', Vladikavkaz, Groznij, Gudermes, Volgograd (additional to Im. Maksima Gorkogo also in the southeastern part of Sarepta/Krasnoarmejsk or in Vol'skij?), Povorino, Balasovo, Pugacevsk, Vol'sk, Sennaja, Saratov II or III, Murom I, Arzamas III, Vladimir', Kovrov or Novski. Kanas, Ul'anovsk, Kruglo'e Pole, Berd'aus, Druzikino, Sedel'nikovo, Cusovoj, Egorsino, Bogdanovic, Kamensk-Ural'skij, Poleta'evo, Troick, Kurgan', Utjak?
b) Where is the major hump yard for the region of the Volga Delta - Aksarajskaja II or Astrahan' II?
c) Where is the EXACT location of the hump yard of Orenburg?

7) Who knows which hump yards in the former URSS have retarders or knows the exact number of classification tracks of any hump yard in the former URSS?

8) In SERBIA I know only the hump yards of Beograd ranzirna and Nis ranzirna. Who knows other Serbian hump yards or knows whether Subotica Teretna, Novi Sad-ranz. or Lapovo-ranz. are hump yards?

9) CROATIA: Who knows whether there is a hump yard in the region of Knin or Split?

10) BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Who knows whether rajlovac near Sarajevo is or was a hump yard?

11) SLOVENIA: Are Sezana, Koper-Tov. and Maribor-Tesno hump yards?

11) BULGARIA: Who knows whether in the region of Varna the hump yard of Sindel' or Varna-Zapad is closed? Have the ironworks of Kremikovci a hump yard? Is Tulovo or Dimitrovgrad a hump yard?

12) RUMANIA: Is there a hump yard in Baia Mare, Viscani or in the Brates/Transbordara/Larga rail facility of Galati? Where is the exact location of the station of Malina near the Galati ironworks, is this a hump yard? Are there hump yards in the giant chemical complexes of Onesti or Navodari?

13) SLOVAKIA: How many classification tracks are in Vrutky and Zilina zriad'ovaci stanica and which of these yards is the principal classification yard for Zilina?

14) CZECH REPUBLIK: How many classification tracks have Olomouc nakl. nadr. and Cesky Budejovice?

15) POLAND: Who knows the exact number of classification tracks in some Polish hump yards? Are there hump yards in Radom, Groszowice, Zdunská Wola-Karsznice, Ostrowo, Herby, Zbaszynek, Jarocin, Slupsk, Ilawa, Korsze and Czeremcha? Which gauges have the border hump yards of Malaszewice and Medyka - only standard or also broad gauge? Is there a hump yard on the border between Lublin and Kovel' (Ukraine)? Who knows any details about the hump yard of Inowroclaw-Rabinec?

Thank you very much for reading this long post and thanks in advance for your labour.

Regards,

Michael Krumholz.

[ 20 January 2002: Message edited by: MKrumholz ]