#trans siberian railway

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SUNDAY EXTRA: The Largest Megaproject in History

This video covers the political origins of the Trans-Siberian railway, the rise of the man most commonly associated with it (Sergei Witte), and the construction process. It is nowhere near exhaustive.

[andmaybegayer]

I was almost convinced that Trans-Siberian Railway Simulator was just a comedy Steam page but apparently they've put out a game demo?

[the-last-tsar]

The Tsarevich Nicholas (later Nicholas II), with a construction cart, giving the start to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway; 1891.

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Sergei Witte, 1905.

Sergei Witte was the Russian Minister of Finance from 1889 to 1891. He argued for industrialization and, faced with conservative opposition, succeeded in a conservative modernization (so modernization/industrialization for the army's sake).

Witte also brought Russia onto the gold standard, & his policies resulted in railways (including the Trans-Siberian), factories, and steel/iron production.

[freerangetropicalbirds]

I've been obsessing over train travel for the past week help

I live in a no train area

[falseandrealultravival]

Farewell Trans-Siberian Railway (Eiichi Otaki) J-pop

I have mixed feelings about this song. When composing, Eiichi Otaki, who always takes an easy-going composing attitude, unusually “composes music without leeway in sound”. It's as busy as the Trans-Siberian Railway. The music continues and ends hurriedly, with no lingering aftertaste. It may not be a failed work, but it is a different song for Eiichi Otaki.

さらばシベリア鉄道（大瀧詠一）J-pop

私はこの曲にはちょっと違和感を持っている。作曲するに際し、いつでも余裕のある作曲態度を取る大瀧詠一が、珍しく“音に余裕のない曲作りをしている”。シベリア鉄道にせかされるように、せわしない。なんだか余韻もないままに、性急に音楽は続き、終わってしまう。失敗作ではないのだろうが、大瀧詠一としては異質な曲である。

[dreamdestinationsbysha]

Epic Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway: Discover Russia’s Historic Route

Explore the world’s longest railway line, spanning 9,289 kilometers from Moscow to Vladivostok. Discover the Trans-Siberian Railway’s historic significance, scenic route, comfortable travel options, and cultural experiences Introduction The Trans-Siberian Railway, an iconic symbol of adventure and discovery, spans over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles) and connects Moscow to Vladivostok in Russia.…

[longingpolaris]

kiku refusing to take the trans-siberian was inspired by this lmao

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

It was a nice touch tying the space train from ‘Skeleton on the Trans-Siberian Railway’ into ‘The Might of the Inspector’,

especially since the Inspector failed miserably to stop the Circuit Knights from committing a straight-up ‘Great Train Robbery’ to steal a powerful alien.

[dasha-ko]

Winter Lupin art: Trans-Siberian Railway (2014) My TW - Patreon - Instagram

[dailyoverview]

The Amur River passes through the city of Khabarovsk, spreading out into a dramatic braided pattern on its path through eastern Russia. As the world’s tenth-longest river, the Amur flows 1,755 miles (2,824 km) to form much of the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China. The first permanent bridge across the Amur was built in Khabarovsk in 1916, allowing the Trans-Siberian Railway to cross the 1.6-mile (2.6 km) span more efficiently.

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Source imagery: Planet

[charlesoberonn]

Are you telling me this railway is trans and Siberian?

[jesuisgourde]

A list of all the books mentioned in Peter Doherty's journals (and in some interviews/lyrics, too)

Because I just made this list in answer to someone's question on a facebook group, I thought I may as well post it here.

-The Picture of Dorian Gray/The Ballad Of Reading Gaol/Salome/The Happy Prince/The Duchess of Padua, all by Oscar Wilde -The Thief's Journal/Our Lady Of The Flowers/Miracle Of The Rose, all by Jean Genet -A Diamond Guitar by Truman Capote -Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold -Venus In Furs by Leopold Sacher-Masoch -The Ministry Of Fear by Graham Greene -Brighton Rock by Graham Green -A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud -The Street Of Crocodiles (aka Cinnamon Shops) by Bruno Schulz -Opium: The Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson -Howl by Allen Ginsberg -Women In Love by DH Lawrence -The Tempest by William Shakespeare -Trilby by George du Maurier -The Vision Of Jean Genet by Richard Coe -"Literature And The Crisis" by Isaiah Berlin -Le Cid by Pierre Corneille -The Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon -Junky by William S Burroughs -Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes -Futz by Rochelle Owens -They Shoot Horses Don't They? by Horace McCoy -"An Inquiry On Love" by La revolution surrealiste magazine -Idea by Michael Drayton -"The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh -Hamlet by William Shakespeare -The Silver Shilling/The Old Church Bell/The Snail And The Rose Tree all by Hans Christian Andersen -120 Days Of Sodom by Marquis de Sade -Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke -Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -In Favor Of The Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anais Nin -La Batarde by Violette LeDuc -Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire -Juno And The Paycock by Sean O'Casey -England Is Mine by Michael Bracewell -"The Prelude" by William Wordsworth -Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Atalli -"Elm" by Sylvia Plath -"I am pleased with my sight..." by Rumi -She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith -Amphitryon by John Dryden -Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman -The Song Of The South by James Rennell Rodd -In Her Praise by Robert Graves -"For That He Looked Not Upon Her" by George Gascoigne -"Order And Disorder" by Lucy Hutchinson -Man Crazy by Joyce Carol Oates -A Pictorial History Of Sex In The Movies by Jeremy Pascall and Clyde Jeavons -Anarchy State & Utopia by Robert Nozick -"Limbo" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Men In Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George Haggerty

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-Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky -Innocent When You Dream: the Tom Waits Reader -"Identity Card" by Mahmoud Darwish -Ulysses by James Joyce -The Four Quartets poems by TS Eliot -Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare -A'Rebours/Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell -The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren -Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates -"Epitaph To A Dog" by Lord Byron -Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard -"Not By Bread Alone" by James Terry White -Anecdotes Of The Late Samuel Johnson by Hester Thrale -"The Owl And The Pussycat" by Edward Lear -"Chevaux de bois" by Paul Verlaine -A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting by Richard Burton -Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling -The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling -Ask The Dust by John Frante -On The Trans-Siberian Railways by Blaise Cendrars -The 39 Steps by John Buchan -The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol -The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol -The Iliad by Homer -Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -The Volunteer by Shane O'Doherty -Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair by Pablo Neruda -"May Banners" by Arthur Rimbaud -Literary Outlaw: The life and times of William S Burroughs by Ted Morgan -The Penguin Dorothy Parker -Smoke by William Faulkner -Hero And Leander by Christopher Marlowe -My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie -All I Ever Wrote by Ronnie Barker -The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys -On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey -The Void Ratio by Shane Levene and Karolina Urbaniak -The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro -Dead Fingers Talk by William S Burroughs -The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage -London Underworld by Henry Mayhew

[amtrak-official]

Medieval farming? (Connect to trains meme)

Medieval farming relied on serfdom, serfdom as an institution was abolished in Russia in 1861 by Tsar Alexander II, Tsar Alexander was assassinated in 1881, his son began construction of the trans-siberian railway 10 years later

[inthedayswhenlandswerefew]

We Were Something, Don’t You Think So?

Series Summary: You are a Russian Grand Duchess in a time of revolution. Ben Hardy is a British government official tasked with smuggling you across Europe. You hate each other.

Chapter 1: Tobolsk, Siberia

Chapter 2: The Middle Of Nowhere

Chapter 3: The Trans-Siberian Railroad

Chapter 4: Moscow

Chapter 5: The Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway

Chapter 6: Saint Petersburg

Chapter 7: The Gulf Of Finland

Chapter 8: The Baltic Sea

Chapter 9: The River Thames

Chapter 10: London

Chapter 11: Buckingham Palace

Chapter 12: The Atlantic Ocean

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Welcome to the Far East. It's the least populated region of Russia – only about 5% of the population lives here. Vladivostok is the capital of Primorsky Krai and it’s the second-largest city in the Russian Far East with a population of about 600,871. The city is famous for its harbor location as the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet and being the final stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway.