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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 ...
English: Trans-Siberian Railroad map. Red: Route of the Trans-Siberian Railway since 1930. Blue: Route in the west before 1930. Violet: Route in the east until 1916. Black: Southern variant in Siberia. Green: Baikal–Amur Mainline. Orange: Amur–Yakutsk Mainline. International Version with Names in local language and English translation.
This is a route-map template for the Trans-Siberian Railway, a railway in Russia.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Russian railroads construction by year 1837–1989 Map of Russian railroads in 1916 Model (2002) of the steam locomotive constructed by Cherepanov (1834) People of all ethnicities and walks of life would meet on Russian trains (sketch by Vasily Perov, 1880) Tsarskoye Selo Imperial Station / Emperor railway station in Pushkin town 1913 The marker for kilometre 9288, at the end of the Trans ...
Map of the Trans-Siberian (red) and Baikal–Amur Mainline (green) Railways. The Trans-Siberian Railway and its various associated branches and supporting lines, completed in 1916, established the first rail connection between Europe and Asia, from Moscow to Vladivostok. The line, at 9,200 kilometres (5,720 mi), is the longest rail line in the ...
The first survey of a possible route for the first section of the Circum–Baikal, from Irkutsk to Lake Baikal, was carried out in 1894. Initially, the surveyors proposed to build a pontoon bridge and have the railway go down the right (east) bank of the Angara River (the left bank was too built up); however, later this variant was found to be inexpedient, as the level of water in the Angara ...
The 1,524 mm (5 ft) broad gauge Salekhard–Igarka Railway, (Трансполярная магистраль Transpolyarnaya Magistral, i.e. 'Transpolar Mainline', popularly known as the Dead road) is an incomplete railway in northern Siberia. The railway was a project of the Soviet Gulag system that took place from 1947 until Stalin's death in ...
The administration of the East Siberian Railway in Irkutsk. The East Siberian Railway (Восточно-Сибирская железная дорога) is a railway in Russia (a branch of the Russian Railways and a part of the Trans-Siberian Railway), which runs across Irkutsk Oblast, Chita Oblast, Buryatia, and Yakutia.