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The Trans-Siberian Railway also played a very direct role during parts of Russia's history, with the Czechoslovak Legion using heavily armed and armored trains to control large amounts of the railway (and of Russia itself) during the Russian Civil War at the end of World War I. [28] As one of the few fighting forces left in the aftermath of the ...
Map of the Trans-Siberian (red) and Baikal–Amur Mainline (green) Railways. The Trans-Siberian Railway and its various associated branches and supporting lines, completed in 1916, established the first rail connection between Europe and Asia, from Moscow to Vladivostok. The line, at 9,200 kilometres (5,720 mi), is the longest rail line in the ...
This is a route-map template for the Trans-Siberian Railway, a railway in Russia.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
In the 1880s and 1890s, the Trans-Caspian railway connected Russian Empire's Central Asian provinces (now, independent states of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) with the Caspian port of Krasnovodsk; by 1906, Central Asia was directly connected by the Trans-Aral Railway with European Russia via Kazakhstan. The Trans-Siberian Railway connecting ...
Far Eastern Russia was economically and militarily dependent on European Russia via the single Trans-Siberian Railroad. Reference maps of major railways in the Far East and Manchuria [ 65 ] That observation formed the basis of the vulnerability of Far Eastern Russia (FER) in a war against Japan.
Traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, the 4,324 km (2,687 mi)-long BAM runs about 610 to 770 km (380 to 480 miles) north of and parallel to the Trans-Siberian Railway. The Soviet Union built the BAM as a strategic alternative route to the Trans–Siberian Railway, seen as vulnerable especially along the sections close to the ...
The 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) broad gauge Amur Railway [a] is the last section of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, built in 1907–1916. The construction of this railway favoured the development of the gold mining industry, logging , fisheries and the fur trade in Siberia and Russian Far East .
An ETR 500 train running on the Florence–Rome high-speed line near Arezzo, the first high-speed railway opened in Europe [3] Across the EU, passenger rail transport saw a 50% increase between 2021 and 2022, with the 2022 passenger-kilometers figure being slightly under that of 2019 (i.e. before the COVID-19 pandemic ). [ 4 ]