The Tabashino - Yaransk railway line is a section of the Yaransk - Yoshkar-Ola railway, passing through the territories of the Kirov region and the Republic of Mari El. The line was designed by Lengiprotrans in the 1960s – 1970s.
The Yaransk Territory has historically developed as one of the largest agricultural centers of the Vyatka province, supplying food not only to it, but also to the neighboring districts of the Kostroma and Nizhny Novgorod province. However, the economic development of the region was complicated by the lack of a railway.
In the second half of the 1960s, the government of the USSR made a decision to build the Tabashino-Yaransk railway. In 1966-1967, Lengiprotrans developed a feasibility study for the construction of the line and drew up working drawings.
On June 17, 1970, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, a resolution was adopted "On the construction of the Tabashino-Yaransk railway line." Shock construction began, to which the Komsomol-youth construction teams were sent.
In 1976 the State Commission signed an act of acceptance into operation of the Tabashino - Yaransk section with a length of 40 km. The Yaransk station was built, where a station, a communications house, a boiler room, and a water tower appeared. At the stations of Yaransk and Tabashino, two houses for 12 apartments were built for railway workers. On February 24 of the same year, regular passenger traffic began Yaransk - Tabashino - Yoshkar-Ola. The issue of extending the line to Kotelnich station was repeatedly raised, but these plans remained unfulfilled.
