The calm state turned into a joyful one, that things had started well. | At the third station, Sinelnikovo, a significant part of the passengers left our transport station and we, in almost empty carriages, were able to sit comfortably and spend the night peacefully after six sleepless nights that befell us in the stuffy town in front of the transport station. Whoever travels along the eastern section of the Catherine Railway for the first time cannot help but be amazed by an unusual phenomenon for our railway roads—the lack of passengers, and therefore immediately comes to the conclusion that it is one of the most useful “non-strategic” roads in Rosea. Because, besides the fact that its vehicles annually transport up to five million pounds of Krivorozheka ore for the Yuza iron smelting plant and up to 251/› million pounds of coal from the Donetsk Ridge to the Yekaterinoslaven and Krivorozhev plants, you feel, sitting in the empty cars, that this is very nice, because empty Iofzda carriages provide passengers with a comfortable life, including those in provincial cities. You can run wild as you please without embarrassing anyone; the coolness of the night, the slowness of the road - it lulls you to sleep and gives you complete pleasure. Turning to the history of this road, it must be said that, despite its youth, it has survived significantly worse times, which it is experiencing now. This was when it had not yet been opened, but was only being built. In this state at that time there was a complete crop failure (1882 and 1883) and unemployment. More precisely: 1882 was the golden year of the reign of Russia in the south of Russia, in general, and the Ekaterinoslav province! and, in particular, the famous Kuzka. After this the piece appears smaller and smaller. And 1883 is considered a very bad harvest for the said province. In order to help the population, to provide them with the opportunity to earn money, the municipal zemstvo, and behind it the government, decided to begin post-raking of the railway. From a theoretical point of view this was great, but in reality it turned out that the local “crest” was incapable of anything else. for daily work. Kromf also took on this work only in the winter. With the onset of spring, no amount of money could attract him from the village to the railway road: he went into the field to plow and harvest. In this regard, the “crest”, like every other Russian peasant, remained in his own right, like a landowner.
ledfltz. G. Schrader, in his article “Essays on the Handicraft Mining Industry” (Russkaya Mysl, December 1889) cites many very interesting facts regarding the reluctance with which a local resident decides to make money for anything else: mining, factory and plant activities. “Mente iselfdovane,” he says, states that some of the peasants of the Grishinsky volost are reluctant to go and ask for repair work on the railway roads only after the three-day hunger strike of their families. In my opinion, instead of going to the factories, where they give good pay, they willingly move “to the line,” “beyond the Kuban,” and in general “to wherever the legendary expanse of land is so desirable.” Further, when the Catherine Road was opened without completing it to the station. Khartsyzeka, as now (in 1889), but only before Yaeinovataya, it turned out that there was no one to look after her. Residents of the villages, as you know, don’t go anywhere, and don’t like 33 using cast iron, and residents of cities, if they needed to go, for example, to Rosgov or to the Caucasus, could not use the services of this line: they had to from the station. From Sinelnikovo you go to the road to Lozovaya, and from there again go down to the south, towards the Sea of Azov. That’s why almost all the passages along the eastern section of the Catherine’s branch were always completely empty and only instilled fear in lonely travelers who accidentally found themselves in them. Here's a fact. In August 6, 1885, one of the people's teachers decided to go to Ekaterinolav from Marunol; at the station On January 1, she took a ticket to Yekaterinoslav and entered the last carriage of the nofzd, which was ready to depart. The carriage is empty. “I’m moving on,” she said later, “there’s also not a soul. I pass the third car, the fourth... all the same until the 8th. At first I was distracted, and then I thought: where am I going to go? and I felt in some kind of uncertain position. After a long time, the door of the carriage opened, the conductor came in and smiled faintly, with joy, that he had finally opened me to the door. But I had no time for it.
“Tell me, please,” I tell him in fear: am I the only one on the whole train? “Yes, you are the only passenger; but you, young lady, don’t worry! - he encouraged me softly and calmly. At the next station there will probably be more to E