Закаспийская военная железная дорога / Trans-Caspian Military Railway - 1899
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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2018 · Travel & Events
Дореволюционная Россия на фотография Закаспийская военная железная дорога - 1899 Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs Trans-Caspian Military Railway -1899 Music: "Jealousy" from the ballet suite "Gayane" by A. Khatachurian The Trans-Caspian Railway is a railway that follows the path of the Silk Road through much of western Central Asia. It served a military purpose of facilitating the Imperial Russian Army in actions against the local resistance to their rule. However, when Lord Curzon visited the railway, he remarked that he considered its significance went beyond local military control and threatened British interests in Asia..... Construction began in 1879 of a narrow-gauge railway to Gyzylarbat in connection with the Russian conquest of Transcaspia under General Mikhail Skobelev. It was rapidly altered to the standard Russian gauge of five feet, and construction through to Ashkabad and Merv (modern Mary) was completed under General Michael Nicolaivitch Annenkoff in 1886. Originally the line began from Uzun-Ada on the Caspian Sea, but the terminus was later shifted north to the harbour at Krasnovodsk. The Railway reached Samarkand via Bukhara in 1888, where it halted for ten years until extended to Tashkent and Andijan in 1898.
