What is the name of the railway station where Anna Karenina dies?

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Anna Karenina dies at the railway station of Obiralovka.

In Tolstoy’s novel, Anna reaches the station after her relationship with Count Vronsky has collapsed into jealousy, isolation, and despair. She throws herself beneath a moving train, bringing the novel’s central tragedy to its devastating climax. Trains and railway stations appear repeatedly throughout the book, making the setting more than a backdrop: they symbolize movement, modernity, separation, and the pressures of a rapidly changing Russian society.

Obiralovka was a suburban railway station in the Moscow area. The settlement associated with the station is now known as Zheleznodorozhny, in Moscow Oblast. Readers sometimes answer Moscow because Anna travels through the capital and the novel moves between major cities, but Moscow is not the specific station named in the question. The canonical answer is the station’s historical name, Obiralovka.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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