Russian Revolution · TURNING POINT · 1891–92

Building of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1891–92)

On the Russian Revolution map as “The Trans-Siberian begins”

1891–92 — Nicholas, the heir, lays the first stone of the Trans-Siberian at Vladivostok on 19/31 May 1891. Work begins from west to east at Chelyabinsk in July 1892. The line will join Siberia and the Pacific to the empire's European core with more than 7,000 km of track, paid for by a treasury borrowing heavily abroad.

When: 1891–92
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Counter-reforms of Alexander III (chapter 2 of Russian Revolution)
Atlas: The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924

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Map showing Building of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1891–92), turning point in The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 — TURNING POINT · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), volume 10 — Pale of Settlement map · Pamir Boundary Commission — signed delimitation map, 1895/1896 · C. Perron / Élisée Reclus — Russian Encroachments in Turkestan (1884)

Source details

Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), volume 10 — Pale of Settlement map. Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
Pamir Boundary Commission — signed delimitation map, 1895/1896. Public domain
C. Perron / Élisée Reclus — Russian Encroachments in Turkestan (1884). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.

Imperial borders use dated political outlines. The 1856/1878 Bessarabian settlement and Kars–Batum acquisition are corrected from the published atlas. Turkmen acquisitions follow the 1884 Reclus map, with Merv entering only after 1884.

reconstruction: 1891.41 · trace: 1878 settlement, mapped in 1912 · trace: 1901 source used as the closest provincial reference for 1881–1891 · vector: 1891.41

Layer records and reconstruction methods