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The Trans-Siberian Railway also played a very direct role during parts of Russia's history, with the Czechoslovak Legion using heavily armed and armored trains to control large amounts of the railway (and of Russia itself) during the Russian Civil War at the end of World War I. [28] As one of the few fighting forces left in the aftermath of the ...
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. Above the train, the ancient emblem of Siberia (two sables supporting a crown, a bow and arrows).
With the German and Turkish blockade of the Russian Baltic and Black Sea ports, the Trans-Siberian Railway acquired a new significance as the lifeline connecting Russian Empire to its World War I allies. To provide a shorter connection to the Entente powers, a railway was constructed to the newly built Arctic ice-free port of Murmansk as well ...
The 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) broad gauge Amur Railway [a] is the last section of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, built in 1907–1916. The construction of this railway favoured the development of the gold mining industry, logging , fisheries and the fur trade in Siberia and Russian Far East .
The Amur River Tunnel (Russian: Тоннель под Амуром, during its construction — стройка No.4) is a 7.2km long railway tunnel on the Trans-Siberian Railway, in Khabarovsk, Russia. It was built between 1937 and 1942 to provide an alternate route for the Khabarovsk Bridge across the Amur River.
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It leads from Trans-Siberian Railway in the south of Baranovsky along the coast of Pacific Ocean to the North Korean border in Khasan. Its continuation is the Tumangang Line . The route is mainly operated by regional trains that connect places along the route with Ussuriysk , where there is a connection with the Trans-Siberian Railway, or with ...
The Turkestan–Siberian Railway (commonly abbreviated as the Turk–Sib, Kazakh: Түрксіб, romanized: Türksib, Arabic: تٷركسٸب, pronounced [tʏɾkˈsɪb]; Russian: Турксиб, romanized: Turksib) is a 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) broad gauge railway that connects Central Asia with Siberia.