(Obiralovka until 1939), a city (settlement until 1952) in Moscow Oblast, RSFSR. It is a railroad station 23 km east of Moscow. Population, 59,000 (1971; 7,000, 1939). Zheleznodorozhnyi has a wood-products combine, a ceramic facing materials combine, an experimental ceramics factory, a motor transport repair plant, and a cotton mill. It is the site of a research institute for structural ceramics and a hydrometeorological technicum.
an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Kniazh-Pogost Raion, Komi ASSR. Situated on the Vym’ River, a tributary of the Vychegda, 130 km north of the city of Syktyvkar. It is a railroad station (Kniazh-Pogost) on the Kotlas-Vorkuta line. Population, 14,000 (1970). Zheleznodorozhnyi has a machine plant, a plant turning out wood fiber plates, and logging and lumber-processing enterprises.
(formerly Gerdauen), an urban-type settlement in Pravdinsk Raion, Kaliningrad Oblast, RSFSR. Zheleznodorozhnyi is situated on the Stogovka River (Pregolia basin) on the Polish border, 70 km southeast of Kaliningrad. It has a railroad station on the Cherniakhovsk-Olsztyn (Poland) line. It is the site of a brewery, a creamery, and a brickyard.
an urban-type settlement in Tselinograd Oblast, Kazakh SSR. It has a railway station (Sorokovaia) 10 km east of Tselinograd. There is a factory producing silicate wall materials.