Simferopol railway station

Simferopol-Pasazhirsky (Ukrainian: Станція Сімферополь-Пасажирський, Russian: Станция Симферополь-Пассажирский,) is a railway station in Simferopol, Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine, but de facto occupied by Russia.

Low-paid jobs in the severe conditions of winter and summer provoked a struggle for basic rights.

But industrialists and merchants there, aware of the benefits a railway would bring to the city, pushed successfully for the route to be revised.

The development of industry in Crimea demanded the import of oil, coal, iron, steel, sheet metal, rail, scaffolding, and stone.

Exports from Crimea consisted mainly of agricultural products: fruits, vegetables, tobacco, wine, and lime.

In 1972, a memorial plaque was installed at the station with bas-reliefs of Yefremov and his band: Breyer, V. Lavrinenko, I. Levitsky, and N. Y. Sokolov.

Long-distance trains provide connections to every major Ukrainian city of Kyiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih and Odesa.

On 18 March 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea, Ukrainian authorities stopped all the rail connections to Mainland Ukraine, and as the result, fewer trains served the Simferopol station.