Belarusian Railway (BCh) (
Belarusian: Беларуская чыгунка (БЧ) / Biełaruskaja čyhunka,
Russian: Белорусская железная дорога)[note 1] is the national state-owned railway company of
Belarus. It operates all of the
rail transport network in Belarus. As of 2005, the railway employs 112,173 people.
BCh reports to the
ministry of transport and as of 2010 was composed of 84 organizations; 46 enterprises, 38 institutions, and 7 factories/plants.[2] The rail network is divided into 6 departments: named after the regions around
Minsk,
Baranovichi,
Brest,
Gomel,
Mogilev and
Vitebsk.[3]
Belarusian Railway was included in the sanctions lists of Canada in November 2022 and Ukraine in January 2023, respectively.[5] Canada also blacklisted Vladimir Morozov, the head of Belarusian Railway, as later did the European Union, Switzerland, Ukraine and Australia.[6]
^In the second decade of the 21st century the railway moved from using the Russian language for printed publications, to bilinguality - using Belarusian and Russian.[1]