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Trans-Siberian line in red; Baikal Amur Mainline in green.

The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad is a set of railways that goes from Moscow and European Russia to the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan.

Because Russia is such a big country, travel from one end and the other is an important problem. In the 1890s, the Russians began building the longest railway in the world to connect Moscow to the Pacific Ocean. Before the railway was built, the trip took about a year along very rough roads. One reason for building the "Trans-Sib" was military: to transport troops to the East in order to protect the country against Japan and China. Another reason was to transport food from the farming areas of south-western Siberia to the people in the European part of Russia. Many cities and industries are built up along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Images for kids

  • Clearing on the right-of-way of the Eastern Siberian Railway, A LCCN2004708023 (cropped)

    Clearing on the right-of-way of the Eastern Siberian Railway, 1895

  • Siberian peasants watching a train at a station, (1902)

    Siberian peasants watching a train at a station, 1902

  • War. Russian National Dance

    Trans-Siberian Railway, c. 1904

  • Gare de Omsk (4871704288)

    The Trans-Siberian is a vital link to the Russian Far East.

  • RZD ED9MK-0029 at Polovinniy stop, Circum-Baikal Railway, 2009 (32356262012)

    Circum-Baikal Railway

  • Trans Mongolian Railway

    Trans-Mongolian Railway

  • Yaroslavsky rail terminal front side

    Start of Trans-Siberian railway in Moscow.

  • Prokudin-Gorskii-23

    Bashkir switchman near the town Ust' Katav on the Yuryuzan River between Ufa and Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains region, c. 1910

  • Simskaia train station

    View from the rear platform of the Simskaia railway station of the Samara–Zlatoust Railway, c. 1910

  • Транссибирска железница

    Almost every station on Trans-Siberian Railway have food sellers, often by local vendors which sell local food such as fish (like Baikal omul), pirozhki, and potatoes. Beside food-stands there are also small kiosks

  • Trans Sibir

    Snow in late-April at Nazyvayevsk station, Siberia.

  • Trans-Siberian tunnel

    Train entering a Circum-Baikal tunnel west of Kultuk

  • Vladstation

    Vladivostok terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway

  • Vladivostok distencemonument

    The marker for kilometre 9,288 (mile 5,771.3) at the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway at Vladivostok railway station

  • Prokudin-Gorskii-25

    Bridge over the Kama River, near Perm, built in 1912

See also

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