It was technically abolished and merged into the city of Balashikha in January 2015.

Founded in 1861 to service the railway station of Obiralovka (Обира́ловка),[2] the settlement became famous as the location where the main character of Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel Anna Karenina committed suicide.

[10] In the 1960s the settlements of Kuchino (Ку́чино), Savvino (Са́ввино), Temnikovo (Те́мниково), and Sergeyevka (Серге́евка) became part of Zheleznodorozhny.

Kuchino is historically associated with the name of Andrei Bely, the Russian poet who lived there between 1925 and 1931.

In January 2015 Zheleznodorozhny was abolished and its territory merged into the city of Balashikha.