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The cost of Transsib

How much Transsib come to Russian nation?

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Here avaiable information information about construction cost of Great Siberian Way or Transsib is collected. For the clear reason it's possible to operate only pre-revolutionary and prewar data (1891 - 1914): after beginning of the First World War Russian rouble started quickly to depreciate and didn't express real costs scale and after October revolution calculation of any expenditures in any currency notes lost the sense at all. But to fo justice it's necessary to say that in Soviet epoch Transsib got very amplitudinous investement which on the whole had occasion in four periods: 1- recovery of the railway after finishing of the Civil War (1922 - 1925), 2 - reconstruction and construction of second tracks on the all Transsib length (1932 - 1937), 3 - mass electrification (1952 - 1963), 4 - second wave of electrification (1979 - 1991). But these investment were used in various extent of efficiency and gave different final return for the country; but these amounts couldn't be compare with pre-revolutionary ones when counting of allocations were made rather scrupuously despite overexpenditures and stealing. If you can help with datas about this subject - write!

Cost of construction of Great Siberian Way sections, 1891 - 1905.
Cost of construction of Chinese Eastern line, 1896 - 1903.
Cost of construction of Great Siberain Way sections, 1907 - 1913.
Financial totals of Great Siberian Way construction, 1891 - 1913.

Lengths: 717 - length of built lines, [3043] - length of squared up and strengthened sections, (3360) - length of built second tracks. All data are from Guidebooks 1900, 1901-1902 and 1914.
It's important! Length are given for 1914 after works for flattening and strengthening of railway, for South Manchuria line and branch to Dalni port - for 1903.

Table 1. Cost of construction of Great Siberian Way sections, 1891 - 1905.


Name and route of section on territory of Russia	length, versts **	cost, 1000 roub. *	cost per 1 verst
1. West Siberian line (Chelyabinsk - Ob river)	1328	51.110	38,5
2. Middle Siberian line (Ob river - Irkutsk)	1715	101.481	59,2
3. Tomsk branch (Taiga - Tomsk)	89	2.573	28,9
4. Baikal branch (Irkutsk - Baikal)	64	3.172	49,6
5. Baikal train ferry	-	6.744	-
6. Circum-Baikal line (Baikal - Mysovaya)	244	53.626	219,8
7. Transbaikalian line (Mysovaya - Sretensk)	1036	79.943	77,2
8. Dauria branch to China (Kaidalovo - Manchuria)	324	31.565	97,4
9. Nikolsk branch to China (Nikolsk-Ussuriiskiy - Pogranichnaya)	110	8.114	73,8
10. Ussurian line	717	46.267	64,5
11. Uralian connecting line (Yekaterinburg - Chelyabinsk)	225	6.535	29,0
12. Perm-Kotlas line (Perm - Kotlas)	812	41.381	51,0
Works in strengthening and flattening of Siberian railway from 1893 to 1905	[3043]	94.321	31,0
Total on the territory of Russia from 1891 to 1905.	6664 [3043]	526.832	79,1

* 1 rouble model of 1897 = 1/15 imperial or 17,424 part of pure gold.
** 1 verst = 500 sagenes = 1,0668 kilometres

Table 2. Cost of construction of Chinese Eastern line, 1896 - 1903


Name and route of section on territory of China	length, versts **	cost, 1000 roub. *	cost per 1 verst
1. Chinese Eastern line (Manchuria - Harbin - Pogranichnaya)	1388
2. South Manchurian line (Harbin - Changchun - Port-Arthur)	980
3. Branch to Dalni port	9
1-3. Total, construction of Chinese Eastern line	2377	253.497	106,1
4. Improvement of rivers for navigation and communication with Russia	-	10.321	-
5. Protection of the line and troops salary	-	46.293	-
6. Liquidation of Boxer rising results	-	70.000	-
7. Arranging of town and commercial port Dalni	-	18.850	-
8. Salary to CEL sea steamship line	-	11.427	-
4-8. Total, additional expenditure	-	156.891	-
Total on the territory of China from 1896 to 1903	2377	410.388	172,6

* 1 rouble model of 1897 = 1/15 imperial or 17,424 part of pure gold.
** 1 verst = 500 sagenes = 1,0668 kilometres

Table 3. Cost of construction of Great Siberian Way sections, 1907 - 1913.


Name and route of section on territory of Russia	length, versts **	cost, 1000 roub. *	cost per 1 verst
1. Omsk line (Tyumen - Omsk)	537	31.880	59,4
2. Reconstruction of Omsk, Tyumen, Novovikolaevsk stations	-	4.737	-
3. Amur line, head section (Kuenga - Uryum)	181	19.370	107,0
4. Amur line, western section (Uryum - Kerak)	622
5. Reinovo branch (Rukhlovo - Reinovo)	64
5-6. Total, western section of Amur line	686	95.265	138,9
6. Amur line, middle section (Kerak - Deya)	664
7. Blagoveshchensk (Bochkarevo - Blagoveshchensk)	102
6-7. Total, middle section of Amur line	766	72.870 *	95,1 *
8. Amur line, eastern section (Deya - Khabarovsk) with branch to Kivda coal-mine and Amur bridge	463	70.887 *	153,1 *
9. Rolling stock for Amur railway	-	26.278	-
10. Construction of 2nd track for Siberian and Transbaikal. lines (Omsk - Karymskaya)	(3360)	157.906	47,0
11. Construction of 2nd track for Ussurian line (Nikolsk - Vladivostok)	(105)
12. Strengthening and flattening of Ussurian line (Nikolsk - Khabarovsk)	[612]
11-12. Total, in Ussurian line		39.000
Total on the territory of Russia from 1907 to 1913	2633 (3465) [612]	518.193

* Only allocationed amounts without confirmed finance report (overdrafts of means are not in).
* 1 rouble model of 1897 = 1/15 imperial or 17,424 part of pure gold.
** 1 verst = 500 sagenes = 1,0668 kilometres

Table 4. Financial totals of Great Siberian Way, 1891 - 1913


Name and route of section	length, versts **	cost, 1000 roub. *	cost per 1 verst
1. Means invested on the territory of Russia, from 1891 to 1905	6664 [3043]	526.832	79,1
2. Means invested on the territory of China, from 1896 to 1903	2377	410.388	172,6
3. Means invested for construction of Amur line, from 1907 to 1913	2096	329.279	157,1
4. Second tracks, flattening of lines and other investments from 1907 to 1913	537 (3465) [612]	188.914
TOTAL, for Great Siberian way construction from 1891 to 1913	11674 (3465) [3655]	1.455.413

* 1 rouble model of 1897 = 1/15 imperial or 17,424 part of pure gold.
** 1 verst = 500 sagenes = 1,0668 kilometres

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Trains, tariffs, costs

Transsib electrification

Transsib records

Transsib weather

Detailed schemes of Transsib

Main stations: the main way

Main stations: South Uralian way

Main stations: Gorky way

Main stations: Kazan way

Zone time

Transsib cost

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