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Trans-Siberian Railway, the Glossary

The Trans-Siberian Railway, historically known as the Great Siberian Route and often shortened to Transsib, is a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East.^[1]

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Abakan

Abakan (p; Khakas: Ағбан, Ağban, or Абахан, Abaxan) is the capital city of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of the Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers.

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Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army.

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Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III (r; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894.

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Alexander Kolchak

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к; – 7 February 1920) was a Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer who held the title of Supreme Ruler of Russia from 1918 to 1920 during the Russian Civil War, though his actual control over Russian territory was limited.

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Altai Krai

Altai Krai (Altayskiy kray) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai).

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Amur

The Amur River (река Амур) or Heilong River is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long, and has a drainage basin of., Great Soviet Encyclopedia If including its main stem tributary, the Argun, the Amur is long, making it the world's tenth longest river.

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Angara

The Angara (Ангара́,; Buryat: Ангар, Angar, "Cleft") is a major river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai.

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Arctic convoys of World War II

The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia.

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Armoured train

An armoured train (Commonwealth English) or armored train (American English) is a railway train protected with heavy metal plating and which often includes railway wagons armed with artillery, machine guns, and autocannons.

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Armstrong Whitworth

Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century.

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Baikal–Amur Mainline

The Baikal–Amur Mainline (Байкало-Амурская магистраль, БАМ, Baikalo-Amurskaya magistral', BAM) is a broad-gauge railway line in Russia. Trans-Siberian Railway and Baikal–Amur Mainline are rail transport in Siberia, rail transport in the Russian Far East and railway lines in Russia.

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Barnaul

Barnaul (Барнау́л) is the largest city and administrative centre of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob Rivers in the West Siberian Plain.

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Baron Henri Hottinguer

Baron Henri Hottinguer (b. September 15, 1868 – d. July 21, 1943) was the first-born son of Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer.

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Bashkirs

The Bashkirs or Bashkurts (Başqorttar,; Башкиры) are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group indigenous to Russia.

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Battle of Moscow

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Birobidzhan

Birobidzhan (p; ביראָבידזשאַן, Birobidzhan) is a town and the administrative centre of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China–Russia border.

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Bratsk

Bratsk (Братск) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir.

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Break of gauge

With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one track gauge (the distance between the rails, or between the wheels of trains designed to run on those rails) meets a line of a different gauge.

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Busan

Busan, officially is South Korea's second most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million inhabitants as of 2024.

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Changchun

Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province in China.

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Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese Eastern Railway

The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER (Китайско-Восточная железная дорога, or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD), is the historical name for a railway system in Northeast China (also known as Manchuria). Trans-Siberian Railway and Chinese Eastern Railway are rail transport in Siberia.

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Chita Oblast

Chita Oblast (p) was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in southeast Siberia, Russia.

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Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai

Chita (Чита) is a city and the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway route, roughly east of Irkutsk.

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Chiune Sugihara

was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Christian Wolmar

Christian Tage Forter Wolmar (born 3 August 1949) is a British journalist, author, railway historian and Labour Party campaigner.

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Chulym (Ob)

The Chulym (Чулым) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, the Republic of Khakassia, and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob.

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Circum–Baikal railway

The Circum–Baikal railway (Кругобайка́льская желе́зная доро́га or Кругобайка́лка, abbreviated "КБЖД") is a historical railway in the Irkutsk region of Russia. Trans-Siberian Railway and Circum–Baikal railway are rail transport in Siberia and railway lines in Russia.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.

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Czechoslovak Legion

The Czechoslovak Legion (Czech: Československé legie; Slovak: Československé légie) were volunteer armed forces consisting predominantly of Czechs and Slovaks fighting on the side of the Entente powers during World War I and the White Army during the Russian Civil War until November 1919.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.

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Datong

Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China.

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East Siberian Economic Region

The East Siberian Economic Region (Vostochno-Sibirskiy ekonomicheskiy rayon) is one of twelve economic regions of Russia.

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East Siberian Railway

The East Siberian Railway (Восточно-Сибирская железная дорога) is a railway in Russia (a branch of the Russian Railways and a part of the Trans-Siberian Railway), which runs across Irkutsk Oblast, Chita Oblast, Buryatia, and Yakutia. Trans-Siberian Railway and East Siberian Railway are rail transport in Siberia and railway lines in Russia.

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Eastbound

Eastbound (originally released in 2012 as Tangente vers l'est) is a book by French author Maylis de Kerangal, published in translation in 2023 by Archipelago Books.

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Emancipation reform of 1861

The emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, also known as the Edict of Emancipation of Russia, (translit – "peasants' reform of 1861") was the first and most important of the liberal reforms enacted during the reign of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

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Erenhot

Erenhot (style Эрээн хот;, commonly shortened to Ereen or Erlian) is a county-level city under jurisdiction of the Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, China, located in the Gobi Desert along the Sino-Mongolian border, across from the Mongolian town of Zamyn-Üüd.

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European Russia

European Russia is the western and most populated part of the Russian Federation.

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Far Eastern Railway

Far Eastern Railway (Дальневосточная железная дорога) is a railway in Russia that crosses Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, and Yakutia. Trans-Siberian Railway and Far Eastern Railway are rail transport in Siberia, rail transport in the Russian Far East and railway lines in Russia.

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Government of Russia

The government of Russia (Pravitelstvo Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the federal executive body of state power of the Russian Federation.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Harbin

Harbin is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China.

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Harbin–Manzhouli railway

Trans-Siberian Railway Harbin–Manzhouli railway, abbreviated as the Binzhou Railway, is a double-track electrified trunk railway in Northeast China between Harbin and Manzhouli on the Russian border, where it connects to the Trans-Siberian Railway via Zabaikalsk, Russia.

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Harbin–Suifenhe railway

The Trans-Siberian Harbin–Suifenhe railway, named the Binsui Railway, is a double-track electrified trunk railway in Northeast China between Harbin and Suifenhe on the Russian border.

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Heinz Bernard

Heinz Bernhard Löwenstein, known as Heinz Bernard (22 December 1923 – 18 December 1994) was a British actor and director and theatre manager.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research was a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary of Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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History of Siberia

The early history of Siberia was greatly influenced by the sophisticated nomadic civilizations of the Scythians (Pazyryk) on the west of the Ural Mountains and Xiongnu (Noin-Ula) on the east of the Urals, both flourishing before the common era.

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Hokkaido

is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.

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Hottinger & Cie

Hottinger Group is an international wealth management business headquartered in London providing family office, Investment banking and other associated financial services.

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Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.

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Irkutsk

Irkutsk (p; Buryat and Эрхүү, Erhüü) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.

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Irtysh

The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan.

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Jan Zwartendijk

Jan Zwartendijk (29 July 1896 – 14 September 1976) was a Dutch businessman and diplomat.

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Jewish Autonomous Oblast

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast' (YeAO),; ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט|Yidishe avtonome gegnt) is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China.

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Kama (river)

The Kama (Ка́ма,; Чулман; Кам) is a long, Russian State Water Registry river in Russia.

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Kaunas

Kaunas (previously known in English as Kovno, also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Kazan

Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.

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Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk (Хабаровск) is the largest city and the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia,Law #109 located from the China–Russia border, at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, about north of Vladivostok.

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Khasan (urban-type settlement)

Khasan (Хаса́н) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Khasansky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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Kirov, Kirov Oblast

Kirov (Киров) is the largest city and administrative center of Kirov Oblast, Russia.

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Komsomolsk-on-Amur

Komsomolsk-on-Amur (p) is a city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the west bank of the Amur River in the Russian Far East.

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Konstantin Posyet

Konstantin Nikolayevich Posyet (Константи́н Никола́евич Посье́т, Constantin Possiet, –) was a Russian Empire statesman and admiral of French origin, who served as Minister of Transport Communications between 1874 and 1888.

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Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the largest city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

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Krasnoyarsk Railway

Krasnoyarsk Railway (Красноярская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Krasnoyarsk and serving the south of Siberia. Trans-Siberian Railway and Krasnoyarsk Railway are rail transport in Siberia and railway lines in Russia.

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Kultuk, Slyudyansky District, Irkutsk Oblast

Kultuk (Култук) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Slyudyansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the southwestern tip of Lake Baikal.

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Kurt Gödel

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal (Ozero Baykal; Baigal dalai) is a large rift lake in Russia.

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Lena (river)

The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East, and is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey). The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia, with a length of and a drainage basin of.

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Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, in Milestone Documents, National Archives of the United States, Washington, D.C., retrieved February 8, 2024; (notes: "Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed 'vital to the defense of the United States.'"; contains photo of the original bill, H.R.

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List of railway electrification systems

This is a list of the power supply systems that are, or have been, used for railway electrification.

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List of UTC offsets

This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00).

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Lists of named passenger trains

In the history of rail transport, dating back to the 19th century, there have been hundreds of named passenger trains.

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Listvyanka, Irkutsky District, Irkutsk Oblast

Listvyanka (Листвя́нка) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Irkutsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located from Irkutsk, near the Primorsky Range and the point where the Angara River leaves Lake Baikal.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.

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Manchuria

Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.

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Manzhouli

Manzhouli (Манжуур хот) is a sub-prefectural city located in Hulunbuir prefecture-level city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.

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Milan Rastislav Štefánik

Milan Rastislav Štefánik (21 July 1880 – 4 May 1919) was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

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Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.

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Moscow Kazansky railway station

Kazansky railway terminal (Каза́нский вокза́л, Kazansky vokzal) also known as Moscow Kazansky railway station (Москва́-Каза́нская, Moskva-Kazanskaya) is one of nine railway terminals in Moscow, situated on the Komsomolskaya Square, across the square from the Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky stations.

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Moscow Kursky railway station

Kursky railway terminal (Ку́рский вокза́л, Kursky vokzal), also known as Moscow Kurskaya railway station (Москва́-Ку́рская, Moskva-Kurskaya), is one of the ten railway terminals in Moscow.

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Moscow Yaroslavsky railway station

Moscow Yaroslavsky railway station (Yaroslavsky vokzal) is one of the nine main railway stations in Moscow.

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Mudanjiang

Mudanjiang (Manchu: Mudan bira), alternately romanized as Mutankiang, is a prefecture-level city in the southeast part of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China.

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Nazyvayevsk

Nazyvayevsk (Называ́евск; Называй, Nazyvaı) is a town in Omsk Oblast, Russia, located west of Omsk, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Nicholas II

Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.

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Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky

Count Nikolay Nikolayevich Muravyov-Amursky (also spelled as Nikolai Nikolaevich Muraviev-Amurskiy; Никола́й Никола́евич Муравьёв-Аму́рский; –) was a Russian general, statesman and diplomat, who played a major role in the expansion of the Russian Empire into the Amur River basin and to the shores of the Sea of Japan.

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Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia.

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North American Review

The North American Review (NAR) was the first literary magazine in the United States.

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North Korea

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.

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Northern Railway (Russia)

The Severnaya Railway (Северная железная дорога; "Northern Railway") is a railway network linking Moscow with Arkhangelsk on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Trans-Siberian Railway and Northern Railway (Russia) are railway lines in Russia.

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Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia.

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Ob (river)

The Ob is a major river in Russia.

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Ob–Yenisei Canal

The Ob–Yenisei Canal, also known as the Ket-Kas Canal is a disused waterway that connected the basins of the rivers Ob and Yenisei in Siberia.

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Omsk

Omsk (Омск) is the administrative center and largest city of Omsk Oblast, Russia.

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Omul

The omul, Coregonus migratorius, also known as Baikal omul (байкальский омуль), is a whitefish species of the salmon family endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.

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Pacific Route

The Pacific Route was a delivery route used during World War II to move goods, particularly Lend-Lease goods from the United States to the Soviet Union.

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Perm, Russia

Perm (Пермь,; Перем; Перым), previously known as Yagoshikha (label; 1723–1781) and Molotov (label; 1940–1957), is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia.

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Perry Collins

Perry McDonough Collins (1813–1900)Corday Mackay,, in British Columbia Historical Quarterly, Vol X, Victoria BC, July 1946, pp.

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Persian Corridor

The Persian Corridor was a supply route through Iran into Soviet Azerbaijan by which British aid and American Lend-Lease supplies were transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II.

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Petropavl

Petropavl (Петропавл; Petropavlovsk) is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: 218,956. The city is also known colloquially in Kazakh as Qyzyljar (lit). Petropavlovsk is about from Kökşetau, northwest of the national capital Astana along the A1, from Omsk.

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Pirozhki

Pirozhki (p) are Eastern European baked or fried yeast-leavened boat-shaped buns with a variety of fillings.

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Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai

Pogranichny (Пограни́чный) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Pogranichny District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located east of the China–Russia border and northwest of Vladivostok.

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Pood

Pood (p, plural: or) is a unit of mass equal to 40 ''funt'' (Russian pound).

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Pyongyang

Pyongyang (Hancha: 平壤, Korean: 평양) is the capital and largest city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution".

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a British monthly business magazine and news website covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Regional rail

Regional rail is a term used for passenger rail services that operate between towns and cities.

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Rescript

A rescript is a public government document.

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RT Documentary

RT Documentary (RTД, literally "RTD") is a Russian free-to-air documentary channel presented in both the English and Russian languages.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Far East

The Russian Far East (p) is a region in North Asia.

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Russian Railways

Russian Railways (OAO Rossiyskie zheleznye dorogi (OAO RZhD)) is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.

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Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Saint Petersburg–Moscow railway

The Saint Petersburg to Moscow railway (1855–1923 – Nikolaevskaya railway) runs for through four oblasts: Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver and Moscow.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.

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Sakhalin Tunnel

The Sakhalin Tunnel (Сахалинский тоннель) is an incomplete and currently indefinitely postponed construction project, which after completion would have connected the island of Sakhalin with mainland Russia via a tunnel of approximately under the Nevelskoy Strait (the narrowest part of the Strait of Tartary).

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Samara

Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev during Soviet rule, is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia.

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Sükhbaatar (city)

Sükhbaatar (Сүхбаатар, Сухэ-Батор) is the capital of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia, on the Orkhon river.

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Serfdom

Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Siberian intervention

The Siberian intervention or Siberian expedition of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of troops of the Entente powers to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by the western powers, Japan, and China to support White Russian forces and the Czechoslovak Legion against Soviet Russia and its allies during the Russian Civil War.

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Siberian Route

The Siberian Route (Sibirsky trakt), also known as the Moscow Highway (label) and Great Highway (label), was a historic route that connected European Russia to Siberia and China.

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Sibirjak

Sibiryak was a passenger train which linked Berlin to some of main routes and cities of Russia. Trans-Siberian Railway and Sibirjak are rail transport in Siberia.

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Slovaks

The Slovaks (Slováci, singular: Slovák, feminine: Slovenka, plural: Slovenky) are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak the Slovak language.

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Sovetskaya Gavan

Sovetskaya Gavan (Soviet harbor) is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, and a port on the Strait of Tartary which connects the Sea of Okhotsk in the north with the Sea of Japan in the south.

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Soviet–Japanese War

The Soviet–Japanese War was a campaign of the Second World War that began with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria following the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945.

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Starlight Express

Starlight Express is a 1984 musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe.

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Stepan Makarov

Stepan Osipovich Makarov (Степан Осипович Макаров, Степан Осипович Макаров; –) was a Russian vice-admiral, commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, oceanographer, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books.

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Strait of Tartary

Strait of Tartary or Gulf of Tartary (Татарский пролив;; Mamiya Strait; 타타르 해협) is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia (South-East Russia), connecting the Sea of Okhotsk (Nevelskoy Strait) on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south.

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Suifenhe

Suifenhe is a county-level city in southeastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, located where the former Chinese Eastern Railway crosses the border with Russia's town of Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai.

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Sverdlovsk Railway

The Sverdlovsk Railway (Свердловская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Yekaterinburg (formerly known as Sverdlovsk, hence the name). Trans-Siberian Railway and Sverdlovsk Railway are rail transport in Siberia and railway lines in Russia.

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Tariff

A tariff is a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods.

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Tayshet

Tayshet (p, lit. cold river in the Kott language) is a town and the administrative center of Tayshetsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Irkutsk, the administrative center of the oblast.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Time zone

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.

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Tobol

The Tobol (Тобол, Тобыл Tobyl, Тубыл Tubyl) is a river in Western Siberia (in Kazakhstan and Russia) and the main (left) tributary of the Irtysh.

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Tobolsk

Tobolsk (Тобо́льск) is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tomsk

Tomsk (Томск,; Түң-тора) is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River.

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Track gauge

In rail transport, track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track.

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Train ferry

A train ferry is a ship (ferry) designed to carry railway vehicles.

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Trans-Mongolian Railway

The Trans-Mongolian Railway (Транс-Монголын төмөр зам) connects Ulan-Ude on the Trans-Siberian Railway in Buryatia, Russia, with Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia, China, via Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.

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Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama

The Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama was a simulated train ride, using a moving panorama, first exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

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Transbaikal

Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia (p), or Dauria (Даурия, Dauriya) is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia.

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Transbaikal Railway

The Transbaikal Railway (Забайкальская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chita and serving Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast. Trans-Siberian Railway and Transbaikal Railway are rail transport in Siberia and railway lines in Russia.

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Tumangang

Tumangang-tong (두만강동) is a neighbourhood in Sonbong, Rason, North Korea, near the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint where the borders of the three countries converge.

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Turkestan–Siberia Railway

The Turkestan–Siberian Railway (commonly abbreviated as the Turk–Sib, translit,,; translit) is a broad gauge railway that connects Central Asia with Siberia. Trans-Siberian Railway and Turkestan–Siberia Railway are rail transport in Siberia and railway lines in Russia.

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Tyumen

Tyumen (a) is the administrative center and largest city of Tyumen Oblast, Russia.

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Ufa

Ufa (p; Öfö) is the largest city in and the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia.

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Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar (Улаанбаатар,, "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia.

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Ulan-Ude

Ulan-Ude (Улан-Удэ,; Ulaan-Üde) is the capital city of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga.

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Unit train

A unit train, also called a block train or a trainload service, is a train in which all cars (wagons) carry the same commodity and are shipped from the same origin to the same destination, without being split up or stored en route.

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Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains (p), or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through the Russian Federation, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.

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Ussuriysk

Ussuriysk (Уссури́йск) is a city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, in the valley of the Razdolnaya River.

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Ust-Katav

Ust-Katav (Усть-Ката́в) is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Yuryuzan River.

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VL85

The VL85 (ВЛ85) is a Soviet (and later Russian) built electric mainline freight locomotive manufactured at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (NEVZ) and designed under the management of V.Ya.Sverdlov (ru:В.Я.Свердлов).

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Vladimir, Russia

Vladimir (Влади́мир) is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, east of Moscow.

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Vladivostok

Vladivostok (Владивосток) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia.

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Vladivostok railway station

Vladivostok railway station is a railway station in Vladivostok, Russia.

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Volga

The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of, and a catchment area of., Russian State Water Registry It is also Europe's largest river in terms of average discharge at delta – between and – and of drainage basin.

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Vyatka (river)

The Vyatka is a river in Kirov Oblast and Tatarstan in Russia.

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West Siberian Plain

The West Siberian Plain (Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina) is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River in the east, and the Altai Mountains on the southeast.

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West Siberian Railway

West Siberian Railway (Западно-Сибирская железная дорога, Zapadno-Sibirskaya zheleznaya doroga) is a Rail operator of Russian Railways and part of the Great Trans-Siberian Railway crossing the Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk, and Altai regions of the Russian Federation as well as a portion of Kazakhstan. Trans-Siberian Railway and West Siberian Railway are rail transport in Siberia and railway lines in Russia.

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White movement

The White movement (p), also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945).

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Winter road

A winter road is a seasonal road only usable during the winter, i.e. it has to be re-built every year.

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Yablonoi Mountains

The Yablonoi Mountains or Yablonovy Mountains (Яблоновый хребет, Яабланай шэлэ нуруу,; Яблоны нуруу, Yablony nuruu) are a mountain range, in Transbaikal (mainly in Zabaykalsky Krai), Siberia, Russia.

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Yakutsk

Yakutsk (p; translit) is the capital and largest city of Sakha, Russia, located about south of the Arctic Circle.

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Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl (Ярославль) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow.

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Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration.

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Yenisey

The Yenisey (Енисе́й) is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean.

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Yeniseysk

Yeniseysk (p) is a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River.

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Yokohama

is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country's most populous municipality.

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Yuryuzan (river)

The Yuryuzan (Yuryuzán;, Yürüźän) is a river in the Republic of Bashkortostan and Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia, a left tributary of the Ufa (Kama basin).

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Zabaykalsk

Zabaykalsk (Забайка́льск) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Zabaykalsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the Sino-Russian border just opposite the Chinese border town of Manzhouli.

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Zabaykalsky Krai

Zabaykalsky Krai (Transbaikal territory) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the Russian Far East.

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Zamyn-Üüd

Zamyn-Üüd (Замын-Үүд;, road's gate) is a sum (district) of Dornogovi Province in southeastern Mongolia.

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25 kV AC railway electrification

Railway electrification systems using alternating current (AC) at are used worldwide, especially for high-speed rail.

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5 ft and 1520 mm gauge railways

Railways with a railway track gauge of first appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway

Also known as List of stations along the Trans-Siberian Railway, Rossija (train), Siberia Railway, Siberian railway, Tran-Siberian railway, Trans Siberia, Trans Siberian Express, Trans Siberian Railway, Trans manchurian railway, Trans siberian railroad, Trans-Siberia, Trans-Siberia Express, Trans-Siberia Railway, Trans-Siberian Express, Trans-Siberian Railroad, Trans-Sibirian Railway, Transiberian Railway, Transsib, Transsiberian Railroad, Transsiberian Railway, Transsiberian line, Транссиби́рская магистра́ль.

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