Photo, Print, Drawing Snabzhenie parovoza vodoĭ izʺ stochnoĭ luzhi, obrazovavsheĭsi︠a︡ pri passazhirskomʺ zdanii na st. Amazarʺ iе паровоза водой изъ сточной лужи, образовавшейся при пассажирскомъ зданiи на ст. Амазаръ
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Title
- Snabzhenie parovoza vodoĭ izʺ stochnoĭ luzhi, obrazovavsheĭsi︠a︡ pri passazhirskomʺ zdanii na st. Amazarʺ
Other Title
- iе паровоза водой изъ сточной лужи, образовавшейся при пассажирскомъ зданiи на ст. Амазаръ
Translated Title
- Supplying a Locomotive with Water from a Drainage Pool Formed by the Passenger Terminal at the Amazar Station
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
- - Log buildings
- - Railroad construction and maintenance
- - Railroad locomotives
- - Trans-Siberian Railroad
- - 1908-1913
- - Russian Federation
- - Zabaykalsky Krai
- - Amazar
Notes
- - Footnote: The vacuum pump that served the Amazar station and was next to the bridge over the Chichatka River was dismantled after the rapid rise of the river in the spring of 1913.
- - 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
- 2018682776
Online Format
- image