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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus was born on July 18, 1933, in Zima Junction, a remote lumber station on the trans-Siberian Railway in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, near Lake Baikal.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2017

Mines, factories, and later grand infrastructure projects such as the trans-Siberian railway were to be manned by productive, hardy labourers, harvesting Siberia’s natural riches while rehabilitating themselves.

From Economist • Aug. 18, 2016

Some claim that a logic bomb was responsible for an explosion on the trans-Siberian pipeline in the ’80s, but that assertion has been widely disputed.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2016

As an Easter present, Czar Nicholas gave his wife a 10-inch-tall egg, engraved on its top with the complete trans-Siberian route.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2014

The necessary prelude to Russia's new policy was the completion of the trans-Siberian railway, certainly one of the greatest engineering feats ever attempted by man.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland