OREANDA-NEWS. On 13 February 2009 was announced, that the Railway Stations Directorate, an affiliate of JSC Russian Railways, has signed a contract with the company FTM-Kursky Railway Station (a structure within MIRAX GROUP Corporation) for trust management of the Kursky Railway Station Complex to improve the efficiency of its operation.

“For the first time a railway station complex has been placed into trust of a private management company, said Maxim Prevezentsev, member of the Board of Directors of the MIRAX GROUP Corporation that had carried out the upgrading of the railway station. - We are confident that the trust management mechanism will help enhance the economic efficiency of railway stations and raise customer service to a whole new level”.

At the opening ceremony held upon the completion of the railway station modernization, Moscow Mayor Jury Luzhkov called Kursky the safest and most secure railway station in Moscow, noting that the safety and security system implemented there has not once proved itself in practice. The number of offences at the station considerably decreased after its modernization.

According to Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways, it is very important that modern Russian railway station complexes should become self-supporting projects. Kursky railway station’s example has shown that it is a realistic task of the not too far distant future.

At present, MIRAX GROUP is developing quality standards for the management of railway station complexes.