Kaya (station)

Kaya is a station of the East Siberian Railway , one of the three largest railway stations of the city of Irkutsk (along with Irkutsk-Passenger and Irkutsk-Sortirovochny ), located near the Sinyushin Gora microdistrict.

Station
Kaya
Irkutsk-Passenger - Ulan-Ude
East Siberian Railway
Region w. d.	Irkutsk
opening date	1949 [1]
Type of	freight
Number of platforms	2
Number of paths	eight
Exit to	st. Sergeeva st. Voronezh st. Argunova
Location	Sinyushina Mountain , Irkutsk
Change to	A : 8, 10, 18, 23, 38, 41, 48, 70, 97, 107, 119, 120, 126, 321, 333, 406, 425, 427, 428, 480 Tr : 7k, 10, 10k
Distance to Irkutsk	7 km
Distance to Slyudyanka	119 km
Tariff zone	one
Code in ACMS	932809
Code in Express 3	2054004

The station was built in 1949 , has access roads to the Kai plants, as well as a branch to the Novo-Irkutsk Thermal Power Plant , ensuring a constant supply of fuel. On Kai, wagons with consumer goods are unloaded; suburban trains stop ^[2] , and until 2008 some passenger trains stopped. Since 2008, the stop of all passenger trains at the station has been canceled. From the city side, the station is crossed by the federal highway M55 , the bridge of which is located directly above the tracks.

The name of the station comes from the Kai River. Not far from the railway there is a relic Kai grove , on the territory of which is one of the largest sites of an ancient man in Siberia.