The siberian Railway

The trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world. It is 4,607 mile long. It runs across Siberia, a vast Asian part of Russian, from Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains to Vladivostok on the pacific coast. Although studies of projects of the railway date from the mid-19th century, its construction actually began in the Czarist regime in 1891 and it was opened for use in 1905.The construction of the railroad encountered enormous problems including wide rivers, steep grades around Lake Baikal, in Eastern Siberia, extremes of temperature and political turmoil. But all obstacles yielded to human endeavour. Thirty-eight tunnels were cut through the mountains along the shores of Lake Baikal and the all Russian route, which was completed by 1971, convered a total distance of 5,973 miles from Leningrad to Vladivostok. Modernisation of the railway followed in the 1930s. It was really a single track but a second track was laid later and in the settlement of a Siberia industrial regions and mining centres with the core economic area of European Russia. The interest of the Trans-Siberian Railway should be preserved properly. Many tourists come here to travel this Railway.