Collections from the Russian State Library: Photographs

The Amur Railroad Album
The Department of Printed Art

This album of photographs records the construction, in 1908-1913, of the western portion of the Amur line of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The entire line was completed in 1916. Before its completion, the only Russian rail link to the Pacific was via the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria, which linked to the Trans-Siberian just east of Chita. Produced by the artistic studio of the Obrazovanie [Education] association in Moscow, this sequence of 282 photographs represents one of the more comprehensive views of railway construction in Siberia in the tsarist era.

Barracks filled with ice pushed up from within by underground water.

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