The Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway

The Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway

Postby fmmsfz » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:47 pm

If I would travel for a long time, certainly, I will do the Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway.
It’s the longest continuous rail line on earth. The usual route taken by travelers is from Moscow to Vladivostok. Each runs clattering along in an epic journey of almost ten thousand kilometers, over one third of the globe. The Trans-Siberian journey has been an experience of almost continuous movement, seven days or more of unabated train travel through the vast expanse of Russia.
Russia’s longstanding desire for a Pacific port was realized with the foundation of Vladivostok in 1860. By 1880, Vladivostok had grown into a major port city, and the lack of adequate transportation links between European Russia and its Far Eastern provinces soon became an obvious problem. In 1891, Czar Alexander III drew up plan for the Trans-Siberian Railway and initiated its construction. Upon his death three years later, the work was continued by his son Nicholas. Despite the enormity of the project, a continuous route was completed in 1905, having been rushed to completion by the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War the year before. The present route of the line, including both the difficult stretch around Baikal and a northerly replacement for the dangerously situated Manchurian line, was opened in 1916.
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