What is this site about? The IS machine, which was the only one on our traction section at that time, evoked a feeling of inspiration in me by its very appearance; I could look at her for a long time, and a special moved joy awakened in me - just as beautiful as in childhood when I read Pushkin's poems. Andrey Platonov "IS steam locomotive" was founded on November 22, 1995 under the pseudonym "Maps and schemes of railways". It was created (in English) by Dmitry Zinoviev, a student at SUNY University in the USA . For those who doubt: the birth of "Parovoz" was officially recorded by Artemy Lebedev in his HDD Records Book (unfortunately, with some delay). Thus, "Parovoz" was the first site about the Russian railways and one of the first sites about railways in general. After some time, the site was renamed "IS Steam Locomotive" and translated into English. In the USSR, a steam locomotive with this name ( IS ) was really produced , and this steam locomotive was considered one of the best Soviet steam locomotives, the pride of the Soviet steam locomotive industry. During the years of the struggle against the "personality cult", all steam locomotives of the IS series were renamed FD p ("passenger"). The only surviving IP known to the author is located on a pedestal at a train station in Kiev. Among the Legends of "Steam Locomotive IS" you will find maps and diagrams (including the first detailed scheme of Soviet railways on the Web), timetables (including the first online full interactive train schedules in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic states), photos of trains and stations, news, analytical articles and many many others. An extensive collection of links to Internet resources dedicated to the railways and subways of the USSR is collected in the "Railway Ring". Thanks to the unique archive of web documents, the author of the site "Parovoz IS" managed to prepare a historical collection of screen shots of the site . A birthday present, so to speak. The emergence and existence of my site did not go unnoticed: Обзор нашего сайта на сервере Pro-MPS.ru (октябрь 2001 г.) В марте 2001 г. сайт отмечен как Отличный в разделе "World: Russian: Досуг: Поезда и Железные дороги" Открытого Каталога. В августе 2000 г. сайт попал в обозрения сайта Orientation.Ru В марте 2000 г. о сайте писала газета Октябрьской ж.д. "Партнер". 3 декабря 1999 года о нас писала ""Листовка" 20 мая 1999 года о нас наконец-то (хотя и вскользь) упомянул мой "однофамилец": Паравозов-News в ноябре 1998 г. рецензия на "железнодорожное Кольцо" появилось в "Подводной лодке" September 17, 1998 an article Trainspotters Come In From Cold , dedicated to me and others like that, was published in the English-language newspaper "The Moscow Times" May 14, 1998 my "Parovoz" was a link of the day of the Glasnet network On November 19, 1997, a short article about Parovoz was published in Izvestia July 26, 1997 "Steam locomotive" got into "Russian Laces"