Electrification of the Karaganda-Tselinograd-Atbasar section

Electrification of the Karaganda - Tselinograd - Magnitogorsk line
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Highway to ensure transport links between Kazakhstan and Siberia with the Urals, the Volga region and the center of Russia
Электрификация участка Караганда — Целиноград — Атбасар

The railway line Karaganda - Tselinograd (now Astana) - Atbasar is a section of the Karaganda - Magnitogorsk meridional route, which provides transport links between Kazakhstan and the enterprises of the Ural metallurgy.

The project for the electrification of an AC power frequency line was developed by Lengiprotrans in the 1960s. This was the first work of Lengiprotrans on alternating current electrification.