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These children were mostly railway workers' kids. Whole purpose of it was to teach them railway jobs were cool to make them follow their parents' steps. In the
by anovikov 4y ago
These children were mostly railway workers' kids. Whole purpose of it was to teach them railway jobs were cool to make them follow their parents' steps.
In the Soviet Union, and to a great extent in Russia till now, railway system is very independent from the State. It's frequently called a state within a state. It has it's own power stations, construction departments that build among other things, housing for workers, their own hospitals and even their own medical schools, it's own police, their own hotels and Black Sea resorts for workers, in the Soviet times they had even their own Gulags. It's a closed-loop system largely independent from the rest of it. So they have their own take on schooling, too.
Happened that way because after the Revolution of 1917, the state largely collapsed and was unable to do shit for at least next 6-7 years. Railway had to figure out how to work on its own.
- f6v 4y agoYou’d be surprised but Deutsche Bahn fit the description as well.
- bionsystem 4y agoCan we find similar ideas in the way Samsung is run ?
- f6v 4y agoI think many huge corporations start building their own resorts, housing, hospitals, etc. I mean, you can practically live at Google campus, right?
- progre 4y agoAll self respecting industry operations in Sweden (steel, wood, papermills, weapons) had their own seaside resorts for workers from about 1920 to the late 1980-ies. Most had housing and company clinics too. Some of these companies were state owned, some in private hands. It all ended when the world went stock-market crazy and the maximize profit guys started to "core-business" the industries, and colsolidation started. I think that capitalism was kind of hi-jacked by the money guys at that point. Lots of company towns where, if not thriving, getting along, working. Not super profitable but doing ok. Then practically overnight they turned to wasteland when the mills closed.
- Someone 4y agoRailroad police certainly is fairly common https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_police https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_police. I think that’s because their operation stretches over all kinds of political boundaries. (Highway police (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_patrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_patrol) can have the same role for roads( Some countries also have special electricity networks for rail, “generally […] only if the railway in question uses alternating current (AC) with a frequency lower than that of the national grid” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traction_power_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traction_power_network)
- vkou 4y ago> housing for workers, their own hospitals and even their own medical schools, it's own police, their own hotels and Black Sea resorts for workers, Other large enterprises in the USSR had similar things, to one extent or another. Railway police are common in other countries.
- orthoxerox 4y agoIt's the railways in the US that have their own private police force. Soviet and Russian railways had/have dedicated departments responsible for the railways within the larger national police force, because otherwise local police departments along the route would have to coordinate train-related crimefighting themselves.
- matkoniecz 4y agoAlso, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Railway_Troops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Railway_Troops have position/separation greater than elsewhere. For other oddities, USSR has army, navy, air force and anti-aircraft branches.