Images of the Turksib's Construction, 1927-1931

 

 

Turksib Survey Party, 1927

 

Initiation of Construction, 1927

(A Locomotive Given the "Track Open" Semaphore with the Slogan "Give Us Siberia!")

 

Kazakh Nomads "Greeting" the Turksib

 

The First Locomotive in Alma-Ata, 1929

 

The First Locomotive Over the New Ili Bridge

 

 

Proclamation Opening the Turksib for Traffic, December 31, 1930

 

 

Socialist Realist Painting, by Kasteev, Turksib

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