1916
The Trans-Siberian Railway Is Completed
Vladivostok · Russia · Discovery · The Modern Age
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Begun in 1891, it was built across permafrost, taiga and around Lake Baikal by soldiers, convicts and migrant workers.
It bound Siberia and the Pacific to European Russia and remains the longest continuous rail line on Earth.
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