 The company in charge of non-mass transit railways is Ukrainian Railways which since 2015 has changed its form of ownership from state company to public.Railways as a mass rail transport in Ukraine were first built under the imperial rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (in the western territories, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Duchy of Bukovina and the Hungarian comitatus in Carpathian region "Karpatalja"), and later in the Russian Empire-controlled territories that held bigger portion of modern Ukraine, having seen major development and reformation since.On territory of modern Ukraine, railroads that were used by self-propelled locomotives (in contrast to horse-drawn) appeared in 1860s on efforts of Prince Leon Sapieha.