The Trans-Siberian Railway
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Trans-Siberian Railway - Sergey Vitter
Sergey Vitter was the person who pushed this through, and he did that both by gathering the money together and persuading the state to pay for it. With Sergey Vitter on board, the Tsar commits to building an iron highway across the continent. The construction is so vast that it is decided to build the line in sections, starting at both ends and working towards a meeting point in the middle. By May, a foundation stone is being laid in Vladivostok, on the shores of the Sea of Japan, just north of the border of what is now North Korea.
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