Trans-Siberian Railroad

American  

[trans-sahy-beer-ee-uhn, trans-] / ˈtræns saɪˈbɪər i ən, ˌtræns- /

noun

1. a railroad traversing Siberia, from Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains to Vladivostok: constructed by the Russian government 1891–1916. over 4,000 miles (6,440 km) long.

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Example Sentences

During World War I and the Russian Revolution, it was the California-heavy element of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia that covered the anti-Bolshevik Russian escape along the Trans-Siberian Railroad in 1918-1920.

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022

The great Trans-Siberian Railroad across Russia doesn’t go this far north.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2019

Concentrating on the people who have helped build the city, NBC interviews a woman surgeon and a Trans-Siberian Railroad engineer.

From Time Magazine Archive

A spur from the Trans-Siberian Railroad has been completed between the provincial capital of Tyumen and Tobolsk�both sleepy towns become boom cities�and is being extended 300 miles northward to Surgut.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the middle of July, 1918, most of the Trans-Siberian Railroad was in the hands of the Czecho-Slovaks.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various