Sharya — County town of regional subordination, industrial and cultural centre of the North-East of Kostroma region with a population of about forty thousand people. The city is located on low-lying left Bank of the river Vetluga and covers an area of 2530 hectares. The construction of the railway Vyatka-Vologda was carried out by the building office on the state Treasury. Road and locomotive depot Shar'ya began to build in 1903, and in June 1906, the section of road was put into operation. At the beginning of 1907 was completed the construction work of the depot. In the same year he completed construction of a station, water tower, 21st railway schools, hospitals with an outpatient clinic and residential houses on the street Vokzalnaya St. Sharya. During the construction of ruthlessly exploited the labor of the peasants. In place of the current warehouses mezhraibaza arose the cemetery called in the Tatar people, where they buried the dead from overwork and unsanitary living conditions of the builders.
The road to the station was down from the East. In Pinega by water from Sormovo was delivered in the disassembled kind the first locomotives of the series S and Od. From Vyatka river to the town of Kotelnich was built a temporary railway line. These locomotives and rolling stock used in road construction on the Candle and the Sharia. At the same time were built the stations, houses, water tower and water tower at the stations. Building vocalistguitarist roads require a lot of money, as the mile of rail lines cost an average of 50 thousand rubles in gold than the Imperial government at that time lacked, and therefore were forced to hand over the construction of the railway separate areas to private contractors. So on the site Wercinski — Sharya-Sokolowski (until 1960 it was called St. Zabehlice) all building and office facilities were handed over to the contractor Pargolovo, and construction with all of the excavation work contractor Mironov. The contractors were concluded with the workers indentured. The working day for construction was 12 hours. Adult worker per day of work receive 60 cents, and young workers, and Teens — for 30 cents. Construction of the railway bridge over the river Vetluga were Russian specialists and workers who already had extensive experience in the construction of bridges on other Railways of Russia. In June 1906 the construction of the bridge ended.
Its Foundation and development Shariya obliged the railway line here in the beginning of the last century. 24 ноября1906 year, the official opening of movement of trains, and the new railroad was called the Northern station, located at 701 km from Moscow — Sharya on the name of the river flowing a few hundred meters from the station. The name of the river was given Mari the ancient inhabitants of these places. In the Mari language has many words with the root "ball." In this case, more suitable garnome.sharash, which means "puddle" or logowoman.shore "river". Asiamerica the word Sharia means "river"[4]. In Russian, the name of the river was transformed into Sarinka. At the moment, the river swamped. Gradually, the station was rebuilt and in 1917 turned into a large village with a locomotive and wagon depot.
In 1938 a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of November 27, the working settlement of Sharya was converted into a town with a population of about 12 thousand people. With the formation in 1944 Kostroma region Sharya went into its composition and was classified as cities of regional subordination. During the great Patriotic war 24 thousand residents of the city with weapons in hands defended their Homeland. The nearly 8,000 — one in three — were killed in the fighting. Among them — Heroes of Soviet Union: D. Karazin, repeated the feat Gastello, V. Tanichev, A. Kolegov, I. Boborykin, V. Duchein; — full Cavaliers of order of Glory: S. Gromov, A. Krasnukhi. In the year of the 60th anniversary of the great Victory in the city was opened Memorial complex, where the bronze and granite immortalized the names of the dead fellow. Through the station of Sharya during the siege of Leningrad took place the echelons of the supply trucks from the siege of Leningrad, which stayed in Shar'ya. Deaths from starvation Leningrad citizens were taken off the train and were buried at the city cemetery Shar'i. Subsequently, at a cemetery in the gantry was a monument to the victims of the blockade of Leningrad residents. In 50-70 years, the city grew rapidly. PDO "Sharyadrev" from the factory had become the largest city-forming enterprise of the Kostroma region . Appeared sewing, furniture production, increased the number of enterprises in the food industry. The city's fast pace was under construction, grew new neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, colleges.