The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
The Amur line from Sretensk to Khabarovsk, built after the Russo-Japanese War demonstrated the danger of depending on the Manchurian shortcut, gives the Trans-Siberian a through route lying entirely within Russian territory. It is a second railway across ground the first had deliberately avoided — colder, harder, partly permafrost — and it is built anyway, because the cost of the terrain turned out to be smaller than the cost of the border.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Trans-Siberian Railway · route · Russia · not located
- Chinese Eastern Railway · route · China · not located
- Permafrost as a track foundation · geological and soil phenomenon · Russia · not located
- Siberia · region · Russia · not located
Evidence
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
Gives the Moscow–Vladivostok distance as 9,288 km (5,771 miles), the world's longest single rail system, inaugurated 1891 and completed in sections to 1916, with electrification finished in 2002. V55 verification basis: the substance was carried in an attributed search result naming Britannica; the page itself could not be fetched, as britannica.com is refused by this environment's egress proxy.
Encyclopaedia Britannica · Verified
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Siberian-Railroad
Trans-Siberian Railroad — Meeting of Frontiers
Supports the construction-stage sequence (West Siberian, Central Siberian, South Ussuri, Circum-Baikal and Amur), the 1891 announcement and Vladivostok inauguration, the Baikal ferry arrangement and the settlement motive. V55 verification basis: the collection essay was identified as an authority and its substance encountered in summary; loc.gov could not be fetched in this session.
Library of Congress · Partly verified
https://www.loc.gov/collections/meeting-of-frontiers/articles-and-essays/development/trans-siberian-railroad
Recorded on Trans-Siberian Railway
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
- Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
- The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
- Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
- Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
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- Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network · 2018-08-01
- Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed · 2002
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line · 1904-09
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal · winter 1903–1904
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal · 1900
- Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria · 1897-07
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins · 1891