Photo, Print, Drawing Li︠e︡tniĭ vidʺ na mi︠e︡sto obrazovyvavsheĭsi︠a︡ ezhegodno naledi u zdaniĭ stant︠s︡ii Omutnoĭ. Versta 396-i︠a︡ iй видъ на мѣсто образовывавшейся ежегодно наледи у зданiй станцiи Омутной. Верста 396-я
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Title
- Li︠e︡tniĭ vidʺ na mi︠e︡sto obrazovyvavsheĭsi︠a︡ ezhegodno naledi u zdaniĭ stant︠s︡ii Omutnoĭ. Versta 396-i︠a︡
Other Title
- iй видъ на мѣсто образовывавшейся ежегодно наледи у зданiй станцiи Омутной. Верста 396-я
Translated Title
- A Summer View of the Site Where Ice Accumulates Annually near the Buildings of the Omutnaia Station. Verst 396
Summary
- This photograph is from an album produced by the artistic studio of the Obrazovanie (Education) association in Moscow that documents the construction of the western portion of the Amur line of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in 1908-13. The album offers one of the more comprehensive views of Siberian railway construction in the tsarist era. In the second half of the 19th century, Russia underwent a period of extensive rail development that culminated in the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Akin to the great railways to the Pacific in both the United States and Canada, Russia's transcontinental line was intended to supply and populate Siberia as well as deliver raw materials to the rapidly developing industries west of the Urals. Working against an ambitious timetable and under severe conditions of climate and terrain, the Russians effectively united the European and Asian parts of the empire by completing this herculean project. The engineering plans provided for the sequential construction of six basic segments. In order of completion, these branches were the West Siberian line from Cheliabinsk to Novo-Nikolaevsk (the future city of Novosibirsk) on the Ob River; the Ussuri line from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok; the mid-Siberian line from Novo-Nikolaevsk to Innokentievskaia near Irkutsk, with a spur line to Tomsk; the circum-Baikal line from Irkutsk to the eastern side of Lake Baikal; and the trans-Baikal line from Lake Baikal to Sretensk. These five sections were completed between 1881 and 1904. The sixth section, the Amur line from Sretensk to Khabarovsk, was not finished until 1916. Before completion of the Amur line, the only Russian rail link to the Pacific was via the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria, which connected to the Trans-Siberian just east of Chita. World Digital Library.
Names
- Education Association, Moscow, creator
Created / Published
- Moscow, Russia, 1908-1913.
Headings
- - Railroad construction and maintenance
- - Trans-Siberian Railroad
- - Trees
- - 1908-1913
- - Russian Federation
- - Amur Oblast
- - Bol'she-Omutnaya
Notes
- - Footnote: The spot where ground water sprang up fountain-like to the height of 1 arshin in the winter of 1910-11 is marked by a cross.
- - Original image at: Russian State Library
- - From the photo album "Постройка западной части Амурской желѣзной дороги. 1908-1913 г."
Medium
- 1 photograph : black and white
Source Collection
- Amur Railroad Album
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2018682857
Online Format
- image