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Stages of Great Siberian Way construction

 From 1891 until 1916 Map of Great Sib. Way sections
Here stages of Grest Siberian Way construction are given sorted by the date of works completion and starting lines to regular operation. You can see as great rail track to Pacific Ocean was acquiering visual outlines. Naturally in this   consolidated table terms of lines starting are given integratedly without division them into more small sections: many lines were turned to operation in parts as works at separate section were completed - for example Middle Siberian and Ussurian ones. Besides some small branches are not mnetioned here, for instance Taiga - Tomsk or sections classified by contemporaries to  constituent parts of Great Siberian Way, but haven't decisive importance in forming of transcontinent railway (Perm - Kotlas, Yekaterinburg - Perm via Kungur, Tyumen Omsk and some others). Also it' necessary to note that dates in many sources differ, so by it determination in case of contradictions data from pre-revolution Guidebooks along Great Siberian Way were took as priority.

* All dates are given in Old and New (in brackets) Styles, station names are given at the moment of the construction.
Sequence of Great Siberian Way construction:
Place of laying of Transsib On May 19 (31), 1891 in 10 a.m. in area of Kuperovskaya fold in Vladivostok city ceremony of grand laying of the railway was carried out and a service on this occasion was held. Heir of throne, czeravecih Nikolai Alexandrovich (future emperor Nikolai II) took part in this ceremony.
Chelyabinsk station Miass - Chelyabinsk line. 97 versts (103 km). Route: Miass - Chelyabinsk. The beginning of works - February 20, (March 4), 1891. Opening of working traffic - 1892. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - September 1892.
The chief of construction: Mikhailovskiy K. Ya.
Kainsk (now Barabinsk) station West Siberian line. 1328 versts (1417 km). [Map] Route: Chelyabinsk - Kurgan - Petropavlovsk - Omsk - Ob river. The beginning of works - Jult 7 (19), 1892. Opening of working traffic - October 15 (27), 1895. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - Ocober 1 (13), 1896.
The chief of construction: Mikhailovskiy K. Ya.
Yekaterinburg station Uralian connecting line. 225 versts (240 km). [Map] Route: Yekaterinburg - Vhelyabinsk. The beginning of works - summer 1894. Opening of working traffic - December 1 (13), 1895. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - November 10 (22), 1896.
The chief of construction: Mikhailovskiy K. Ya.
First station building of Vladivostok Ussurian line. 717 versts (765 km). [Map] Route: Vladivistok - Nikolsk-Ussuriiskiy - Grafskaya - Khabarovsk. The beginning of works - April 1891. Opening of working traffic - October 15 (27), 1897. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - November 1 (13), 1897.
The chiefs of construction: Ursaty A. I., from 1892 - Vyazemsky O. P.
Irkutsk station Middle Siberian line. 1715 versts (1830 km). [Map] Route: Ob river - Achinsk - Krasnoyarsk - Zima - Irkutsk. The beginning of works - May 1893. Opening of working traffic - August 16 (28), 1898. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - January 1 (13), 1899.
The chief of construction: Mezheninov N. P..
Baikal port Baikal branch. 64 versts (68 km). Route: Irkutsk - Baikal. The beginning of works - September 1 (13), 1896. Opening of working traffic - October 21 (November 2), 1898. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - January 1 (13), 1900.
The chief of construction: Mezheninov N. P..
Eastern access to CEL. 110 versts (117 km). [Map] Route: Nikolsk-Ussuriiskiy - Pogranichnaya. The beginning of works - 1897. Opening of working traffic - January 1 (13), 1899. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - January 1 (13), 1900.
The chief of construction: ?
Ferry ice-breaker "Baikal" Train ferry. Route: Baikal - Mysovaya, from 1903 to Tankhoi. The beginning of construction of icebreaking ferry "Baikal" - 1895 γ. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - April 24, (May 7), 1900.
Urulga station Transbaikal line. 1036 versts (1105 km). [Map] Route: Mysovaya - Verkhneudinsk - Chita - Sretensk. The beginning of works - April 11 (23), 1895. Opening of working traffic - January 6 (18), 1900. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - July 1 (14), 1900.
The chief of construction: Pushechnikov A. N.
Kitaiskiy passing-track Western acces to CEL. 324 versts (346 km). [Map] Route: Kitaiskiy passing-track - Manchuria. The beginning of works - 1897 γ. Opening of working traffic - February 10 (23), 1901. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - October 12 (25), 1901.
The chief of construction: ΐδπθΰνξβ Γ.Β.
Harbin station Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian lines. 2377 versts (2536 km).  [CEL map]
[SML map] Route: Manchuria - Harbin - Pogranichny; Harbin - Changchun - Port-Arthur. The beginning of works - August 28 (September 9) 1897. Opening of working traffic - October 21 (November 3) 1901. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - July 1 (14), 1903.
The chief of construction: Yugovich A. I.
Slyudyanka station Circum-Baikal line. 244 versts (260 km). Route: Baikal - Slyudyanka - Mysovaya.
The beginning of works - the end of 1899. Opening of working traffic - September 18 (October 1), 1904. Putting into operation and beginning of regular communication - October 16 (29), 1905.
The chief of construction: Savrimovich B. U.
Construction of Amur line Amur line with branches. 2096 versts (2236 km). Route: Kuenga - Zilovo - Alexeevsk - Amur river; Bochkarevo - Blagoveshchensk; Reinovo - Πσυλξβξ; branch to Kivda. The beginning of works -  1907 γ. The beginning of regular communication up to Amur river - March 10 (23), 1915.
The chiefs of turns construction, form west to east: Zeest B. V, Podrutskiy E. Yu., Tregubov V. V., Liverovskiy A. V.
Amur bridge Construction of Amur bridge. Less than 3 versts (about 3 km). The beginning of construction - August 12, 1913. Putting into operation and beginning of through regular communication from St Petersburg up to Vladivostoc over the territory of Russia - October 5 (18), 1916.
The chief of construction: Liverovskiy A. V.
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