This paper provides an overview of the practices of the repair, maintenance, and appropriation of locomotives on Russian railways at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, exemplified by a case study of the Ryazan–Uralsk railway. Particular attention has been paid to the function of repair and maintenance in the railway context. Repair and maintenance have therefore been considered complex phenomena bringing together infrastructure, things to be repaired or maintained, and people involved in these actions on the one hand, and field research, innovation and business on the other. Based on a broad range of sources regarding the legal prescriptions, statistics, reports of railway employees to their superiors, financial documentation, and drafts of repaired locomotives, the diversity of the repair and maintenance of locomotives in late imperial Russia is analysed.

本文概述了19世纪末20世纪初俄罗斯铁路机车的维修，保养和挪用做法，并以梁赞－乌拉尔斯克铁路为例进行了举例说明。特别注意了铁路环境下的维修和保养功能。因此，维修和保养被认为是复杂的现象，将基础设施，要修理或维护的事物以及一方面涉及这些行动的人员以及另一方面进行现场研究，创新和业务的人员聚集在一起。基于有关法律规定，统计数据，铁路雇员上司的报告，财务文件以及修理过的机车草稿的大量资料，