Nikolai Belyaev (entrepreneur)
Nikolay Vasilyevich Belyaev was a Russian philanthropist, entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the Upper Volga Railway Society.
Nikolai Belyaev (entrepreneur)
The Upper Volga (Verkhne-Volzhskaya) railway was a private railway in the upper Volga region of Russia, built in 1914–1918 and in the second half of the 1930s. It was planned as part of a backup route from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Today, the lines are part of the Moscow region of the October Railway.
Token of the Society of the Upper Volga Railway of the Russian Empire, 1914.
Charter of the Society of the Upper Volga Railway
Steam locomotive of type "O". Operated in the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s on the Moscow-Savyolovo line, and later Savyolovo-Kalyazin
Steam locomotive of type "2-2-0-P". Operated in the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s on the lines Rybinsk-Bezhetsk and Kashin-Krasny Holm (photo from the book of V.A. Rakov "Locomotives of domestic railways").