Talk:Khabarovsk Bridge

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Did you know... that Khabarovsk Railway Bridge, the longest in Eurasia, was originally named Alekseyevsky after Tsesarevich Alexis?

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SMS Emden in Indian Ocean 1914 and Habarovsk Bridge Spans[edit]

The bridge parts were sent from Odessa just befere the outbreake of the Great War in July 1914. It was German cruiser SMS Emden which sunk two of the Russian merchant steamships which carried two spans of the bridge. Other Russian merchant ships managed to escape to Penang and continued safely to Vladivostok. The missing two spans were ordered from Canada and arrived to Russian Far East in 1916. Totally more than 17.000 tons of steel were needed to construct the railway bridge with 8.000 big stone pieces (steinblöcke).

The cost of Amur Railway is given as 264.000.000 roubles by J.N.Westwood in his "A History of Russian Railways" published by George Allen and Unwin LTD, London 1964.

See also photos: Bodo Thöns "Die Transsibirische Eisenbahn" published by Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2004.

JN

Imeni Telmana[edit]

latitude and longitude of Imeni Telmana, Russia is: 48° 32' 43" N / 134° 58' 56" E

it appears to be on an Island in the Amur River.

Is there a risk it is,in fact, a ghost town like many along the railway? There is a place in western Russia with the same name.

The town may be named for Ernst Thälmann, "Имени", i.e., "named after / in memory of" a "Talman".

Russian wikipedia is no help as it mentions the village but has no article:

имени Тельмана — село в Смидовичском районе, Еврейская автономная область

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http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0

G. Robert Shiplett 14:00, 27 March 2012 (UTC)