Engineering of an electric train for the first phase of the high-speed railway network in Russia

Abstract

Creating Russia’s first high-speed railway line between Moscow and St. Petersburg is an important sociopolitical, complex engineering and technical, as well as major economic project. In addition to the design and construction of fixed track, power supply, automation, telecontrol and telecommunication facilities and other infrastructure components, the project includes, in a single package, the design and commercial production of a Russian-made high-speed train. In 2025, the BRICS Transport (vol. 4, issues 1 and 2) published the Report on the plenary session of the VI Betancourt International Engineering Forum “High-speed railway line St. Petersburg–Moscow: Challenges, solutions, personnel” in both Russian and English. The Report presented the background of the project and its infrastructure component. To complete the picture, we are publishing the slightly abridged presentation “On engineering of an electric train for the first phase of the high-speed railway network in Russia” made by Head of the Department of Technical Policy of JSC Russian Railways, Candidate of Engineering Sciences Vladimir E. Andreev for students and professors of Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University on April 2, 2025.