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The trains in these lands went
from the East to the West and from the West to the
East...
Ch. Aytmatov
Ch. Aytmatov
The Turkestan-Siberian railway (the Turksib) had bad luck...For the entire history of its existence, it was overshadowed by its distinguished relative - the Trans-Siberian railway, the Transsib. The Turksib was built 15 years later than the Transsib. It is six times shorter (if we assume that the Transsib indeed spans from Moscow to Vladivostok). There are much fewer passenger trains on the Turksib, and the tourists are rare guests in the steppes of Central Asia... The purpose of this project is to restore the historical justice and to tell you a story about the Mysterious Turksib.This site is currently undergoing translation into English. If you come across a Russian page, please kindly use the Babelfish translation engine. We apologize for the inconvenience. |
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 19.IX.2003: New high-speed "Tulpar" train departed to
Almaty from the newly rebuilt Astana main station. The train
covers the distance between the new and the old capitals in
just 13 hours and 44 minutes (it goes twice as fast as
traditional trains).
13.VI.2003: 22 new Talgo coaches for Kazakhstan were
unloaded at Hamina, Finland on 2003.06.13. The new coaches
will be used on daily Almaty-Shymkent and Almaty-Astana
trains. Photographs...
30.IX.2002: The first high-speed
train left from the station of Astana for the southern capital
- Almaty. The train will be scheduled once a week during the
weekends, covering the distance between the two capitals in
just 14 hours, compared to 20 hours now.
The train consists of the railroad cars built by
the Spanish company "Patentes Talgo". The
price of a one-way ticket in the second class is 4867 tenge
(63 USD), in a sleeper cars - 9533 tenge (124 USD).
VIII.2002: The construction of the railroad line
Navoi-Uchkuduk-Nukus in Uzbekistan with the total length of 796,2
kilometers is completed. The new route, which goes around
four international borders, will make it possible to
accelerate the movement of
trains by almost seven hours. The price tag of the
construction is 38,1 billion sums (UZS).
08.V.2002:
Starting the train service on route Almaty-Tehran is postponed
indefinitely. This is due to the fact that
the management of the state enterprise "Uzbekiston Temir
Yullari", until now, did not settle the questions,
related to the passage of train through the territory of
Uzbekistan with the government of that country.
Furthermore, the Uzbek side did not present the schedule of
the train on its territory to the participating countries.
The new date of the starting of the service will be announced
later. 24.IV.2002: The train Almaty-Tehran will be restarted
on May 2, 2002. 15.IV.2002:
International passenger train No19/20
Almaty-Tehran is temporarily suspended until April 25. Not a
month passed... 14.III.2002:
International passenger train
No19/20 Almaty-Tashkent-Turkmenabad
(Chardzhou)-Serakhs-Mashhad-Tehran began it's first technical
run. |
26.IV.2006:
List of stations and sidings updated
11.III.2005:
Three poems about Turksib added
09.III.2005:
Brief biography of Vladimir "Bill" Shatov - the Turksib construction head
18.II.2005:
Shar - Ust-Kamenogorsk line construction status
02.I.2005:
The map of the new and the old Kapchagay
alignment (387 kB)
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| This is a project of
"Steam Engine IS" and D.
Zinoviev. The author is grateful to Vasili Zimin, Adilzhan Saugabaev, Sergey Sigachev, Mikhail Utkin, and Alexey Yushenkov for their help in the development of the site. |
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