To main page...
HistoryPersons
Rambler's Top100
Persons of Transsib
 Now available 42 persons in this section Decoding of sources
All persons that formed appearance of Great Trans-Siberian railway for the past 150 years or vital influenced at its fate from moment of the first surveings till present day will be collected in this section.
- The last additions in the section
 ALL PHOTOS OF THIS SECTION:
  • ADRIANOV G. V. (? - ?), first assistanst of chief of Transbaikal line (he was responsible for Chita - Sretensk section), after chief of Kitaiskiy passing-track - Manchuria line construction (@ZB1)
  • BELELYUBSKIY Nikolai Appolonovich (1845 - 1922), scientist in area of bridge building, the author of many project of Great Siberian Way bridges (@VS1)
  • BOCHAROV Alexander Nikolaevich (1857 - 1914), the author of the largest at Chinese Eastern line Khingan tunnel project (@VS1)
  • BUDAGOV Grigory Moiseevich (1852 - 1921), the head of bridge via Ob river at West Siberian line construction works (@VS1)
  • Chzhu Cin-Lan (? - ?), Governor of Girin province and president of CEL Society in 1919-1921 (@JB)
  • DORMIDONTOV Nikolay Fedorovich (1859 - ?), chief of 3 and 9 building plots during construction of Ussurian line (@DV)
  • DUKHOVSKOY Sergey Mikhaylovich (1838 - 1901), Amur governor general during construction of Ussurian line (@DV)
  • FRENKEL Naftaliy Aronovich (1883 - 1960), prisoner in 1923-1927, before 1933 - at the Belomorkanal (GULAG camp), after he was a head of Dal'lag - the chief of Transsib second tracks construction in 1933-1937, the founder and the permanet head of GUZDS (Railway Building Headquarter) NKVD USSR from 1937 to 1947, lieutenant-general of NKVD (@TY)
  • GARIN-MIKHAILOVSKIY Nikolai Georgievich (1852 - 1906), russian writer, participant of Siberian railway construction, concerned with choice of Transsib bridge crossing over Ob river (@BT)
  • GYUBBENET Adolf Yakovlevich (1831 - 1901), Railway Minister of Russian Empire in 1889 - 1892. Construction of Great Siberian Way began under them (@)
  • KAGANOVICH Lazar Moiseevich (1893 - 1991), People's railway commissar of USSR in 1935 - 1937, 1938 - 1942, 1943 - 1944. Photo was made in 1937 in PCfMoC uniform (@BS1)
  • KERBEDZ Stanislav Ippolitovich (1844 - 1906), vice-president of Chinese Eastern line, a member of Railway Ministry Engineering Council (@VS1)
  • KHILKOV Mikhail Ivanovich (1834 - 1909), prince, Railway Minister of Russian Empire from 1895 to 1905. It was at Minister's post in decisive years of Great Siberian Way construction and also during Russian-Japanese war, photo - about 1904 (@HT)
  • KHORVAT Dmitry Leonidovich (?-1937), until 1896 - chief of Ussurian railway battalion; after - the first chief of Ussurian line (1896 - 1899); general manager of Chinese Eastern line from July 1, 1903 to April 27, 1918, then Director-Superintendent till November 6, 1920, lieutenant-general (@DV)
  • KIPARISOV Alexander Fedorovich (1855 - ?), from opening of goods-passenger traffic by Southern Ussurian line in 1895 - the chief of operating railway section with residence in Vladivostok (@DV)
  • KNORRE Evgeny Karlovich (1848 - 1917), contractor in construction of Siberian railway bridges including famous Yenisei bridge; he suggested to use wooden cofferdams for construction of bridge piers (@VS1)
  • KRUGLIKOV Nikolai Sergeevich (1861 - ?), deputy chief of Ussurian line construction (@DV)
  • KULAKOV Alexander Nikolaevich (1875 - 1928), a chief of 1st division of 2nd section during construction of Chinese Eastern line (@VS1)
  • KULOMZIN Alexander Nikolaevich (? - ?), business-manager and a member of the Siberian railway construction Committee was being in charge of daily actions of the Committee with the Chairman Emperor Nikolai II (@900)
  • LIVEROVSKIY Alexander Vasil'evich (1867 - 1951), chief of Amur line eastern section (Deya - Khabarovsk) construction from 1912 to 1916 made it regular avaiable, took part in Circum-Baikal line construction and in reconstruction of mountain sections of Siberian railway, Minister for Means of Communication of Provisional Government from September 25 to October 25, was taken into custody during Bolshevik revolution; in Soviet time was concerned with teacher's work, advised constructin of the Road of Life over Ladozhskoe lake in 1941-42. Doctor of technics from 1938 (@)
  • LYAPUSTIN Igor' Alexeevich (1938 - 2001), the reconstruction project author of renewed Amur bridge that superseded the bridge of tsarist building, also chief of elaboration of many other reconstruction project of bridges at Transsib, AYaM and BAM (@AV)
  • MAZUR Iogahn Fridrikh, the first captain of "Angara" icebreaking train ferry that transported passengers of trains across Baikal lake between 1900 and 1906 (@MK)
  • MEZHENINOV Nikolai Pavlovich (1838 - 1909), chief of Middle Siberian line construction from 1892 to 1899 made it regular avaiable and also of Taiga - Tomsk and Irkutsk - Baikal lines (@900)
  • MIKHAILOVSKIY Konstantin Yakovlevich (1834 - 1909), chief of West Siberian line construction from 1891 to 1896 made it regular avaiable and also of Miass - Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg - Chelyabinsk lines (@900)
  • MULLER Karl (1873 - 1923), captain of German Kaiser fleet, commander of "Emden" cruiser that in autumn 1914 sank the Belgian steamship "Kortrake" which transported 2 last trusses for Amur bridge. By sinking of this steamship he postponed Transsib starting through Russia territoty for the whole year (@ABS)
  • MUSHKETOV Ivan Vasilyevich (1850 - 1902), professor of Petersburg university, famous scientist in area of geology and geography. He made prospects of Circumbaikal railway (@VS1)
  • OGLOBLIN Vasily Vasilyevich (? - 1906), deputy chief of Transbaikal line construction, the first chief of Transbaikal line (@VS1)
  • OSTROUMOV Boris Vasilyevich (? - ?), business-manager of CEL from 2.2.1921, he was appointed at this post by Chinese government (@JB)
  • PEREDERY Grigory Petrovich (1871-1953), engineer-bridgebuilder, member of the USSR Academy of Science, the author of the project of Amur bridge left-bank trestle near Khabarovsk (@DV)
  • PETROV Nikolai Pavlovich (1836 - 1920), scientist; he was busy with investigation of steam locomotives construction. President of Railway Ministry Engineering Council, a friend of Raiwlay Minister, president (?) of committees on construction of West Siberian, Middle Siberian, Transbaikal and ussurian lines of Great Siberian Way (@VS1)
  • PROSKURYAKOV Lavr Dmitrievich (1858 - 1926), railway engineer, professor, the author of the project of Amur bridge near Khabarovsk, the longest bridge at Transsib, and the bridge over Yenisei near Krasnoyarsk (@DV)
  • PUSHECHNIKOV Alexander Nikolaevich (1850 - after 1911), chief of Trans-Baikal line construction from 1895 to 1900 made it regular avaiable (@900)
  • ROMANOV Alexander Alexandrovich, Alexander III (1845-1894), emperor-autocrat of Russian Empire in 1881-1894 signed in 1891 the decree about beginning of Great Siberian Way construction (@MK)
  • ROMANOV Nikolai Alexandrovich [Nikolai II] (1868 - 1918), emperor-autocrat of Russian Empire in 1895-1917 was a permanent chairman of the Siberian railway construction Committee from 1893 to the end of its work. The photo was made in 1898 (@900)
  • URSATY Alexander Ivanovich (1848 - after 1916), the first chief of Ussurian line construction, from 1891 to 1892 (@DV)
  • VITTE Sergey Yul'evich (1849 - 1915), earl, Railway Minister of Russian Empire in 1892, after Minister of the Exchequer from 1893 to 1903, Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1905. Member of the Siberian railway construction Committee. He made an invaluable contribute to the regular finance of Great Siberian Way construction, took the lead in many initiatives during it building. He was one of the aurthors of laying the railway by the shorter way via Manchuria (@)
  • VYAZEMSKY Orest Polienovich (1839 - 1910), chief of Ussurian line construction from 1892 to 1897 made it regular available (@DV)
  • YUGOVICH A. I. (? - ?), chief of Chinese Eastern and South Manchuria lines from 1897 to 1903 made them regular avaiable (@HT)
Decoding of sources:
@ - scan, Sigachyov Sergey
@900 - Book 'Guidebook to the Great Siberian way, 1900'
@901 - Book 'Guidebook to the Great Siberian way, 1900'
@ABS - scan, Bystrov Alexey
@AV - given, Vasilkov Alexey
@BS1 - Book BSE, 1st edition, 1937
@BT - scan, Thoens Bodo
@DV - given, Museum of Far East line history
@HT - Book by Harmon Tupper 'To the Great Ocean'
@JB - scan, Bisher James
@MK - scan, Krainov Mikhail
@TY - given, Museum of BAM history in Tynda
@VS1 - given, Irkutsk children railway
@ZB1 - Book 'The railway is the life' to centenary of Transbaikal railway
Rating@Mail.ru If you have materials, documents, journals or books with information about men concern Transsib - send information about them or portraits for filling this section.
Or write to us - your opinion, additions, remarks...
To begin
of the page
To main page...
1998-2010 " Trans-Siberian Web Encyclopedia". All rights reserved.
Copying of information is allowed only with non-commercial purposes and with link
to the source (www.transsib.ru/Eng) and authors of materials. Copying of photos from
the site pages without preliminary understanding is forbidden

Created by April 7, 2001