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Stages of Great Siberian Way construction |
 From 1891 until 1916 |
 Map of Great Sib.
Way sections |
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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. |
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Sequence of Great Siberian Way construction: | ||
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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. | |||
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.. |
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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.. |
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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: ? |
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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. | |||
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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