Belarusian Railway

The advantageous geopolitical location of the Republic of Belarus predetermined role of its railway as pivotal transport crossroad on the way from Western and Central European countries to Russia and Asian countries (East-West direction), from Scandinavian countries to Ukraine, Moldova, the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East countries (North-South direction). Two pan-European transport corridors lie via Belarus: Berlin - Brest - Minsk - Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod (Crete corridor II) and two branches of Crete corridor IX: the first one - Kaliningrad/Klaipeda - Vilnius - Minsk - Gomel - Kiev (Odessa) - Kishinev - Bucharest - Alexandropoulos (Greece), the second one - Helsinki - Saint-Petersburg - Vitebsk - Gomel - Kiev (Odessa) - Bucharest.