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  2. Trans-Siberian Railway - Wikipedia

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    Trans-Siberian Railway. Lonely Planet. Guide book for travelers; Sahi, Juha. "The Trans-Siberian railway as a corridor of trade between Finland and Japan in the midst of world crises." Journal of Transport History 36.1 (2015): 58–76. Thomas, Bryn (2003). The Trans-Siberian Handbook (6th ed.). Trailblazer. ISBN 1-873756-70-4. Guide book for ...

  3. Eurasian Land Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Railway bridge on the Trans-Siberian across the Kama River near Perm. The Eurasian Land Bridge (Russian: Евразийский сухопутный мост, romanized: Yevraziyskiy sukhoputniy most), sometimes called the New Silk Road (Новый шёлковый путь, Noviy shyolkoviy put'), is the rail transport route for moving freight and passengers overland between Pacific seaports ...

  4. List of Russian rail accidents - Wikipedia

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    Trans-Siberian Railway: 0 0 Derailment A nuclear waste train from Bulgaria crashes at midnight between Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Fourteen of the 20 tanker-wagons derail and the line is closed for about 12 hours. One kilometre of track is damaged. [16] 16 June 2005 Tver Oblast: 0 0 Derailment

  5. Harbin–Suifenhe railway - Wikipedia

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    Freight train carrying coal on the Harbin–Suifenhe railway near the Yuquan Station in Harbin. The Trans-Siberian Harbin–Suifenhe railway, named the Binsui Railway (simplified Chinese: 滨绥铁路; traditional Chinese: 濱綏鐵路; pinyin: bīnsuí tiělù), is a double-track electrified trunk railway in Northeast China between Harbin and Suifenhe on the Russian border.

  6. Jubilee Medal "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway"

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    The Jubilee Medal "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway" is a silver 32mm in diameter circular medal with raised rims on both sides. On its obverse the relief image of a locomotive pulling a train towards the right at a shallow angle.

  7. Russian Revolution of 1905 - Wikipedia

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    A strike by railway workers on 21 October [O.S. 8 October] 1905 quickly developed into a general strike in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. This prompted the setting up of the short-lived Saint Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Delegates, an admixture of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks headed by Khrustalev-Nossar and despite the Iskra split would see the ...

  8. Aeroflot Flight 821 - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] A section of the Trans-Siberian Railway was damaged by the crash. Flight 821 is the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737-500, surpassing the 1993 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 733 , and was the second-deadliest aviation accident of 2008, behind Spanair Flight 5022 .

  9. History of rail transport in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Today Russian Railways, a state-owned railway company, is one of the biggest railway companies in the world with 950,000 employees [1] and a monopoly within Russia. The total length of line used by the Russian Railways is, at 85,500 kilometres (53,130 mi), [2] one of the largest in the world, exceeded only by the United States. [3]