Our Thanks

The world has to know his heroes. So, virtual
Transsib and Circum-Baikal were built besides us by:

Transsib:

• Administration of "Russian Express" server (Moscow) - provided free hosting of the site "Trans-Siberian Railway" from July 2000 to August 2002 at high-speed server www.express.ru, and also technical service of the transsib.ru domain, before it was absorbed by "Caravan" hoster which threw our site away from free hosting.

• Afonin Sergey (Slyudyanka) - sent for Technial examination information about Transsib speeds at sections of East Siberian line (Zima - Irkutsk - Slyudyanka - Zaudinskiy).

• Andreev Ivan (USA, California) - sent more than 70 historical photos of Transsib and also sets of picture postcards  "Centenary of Trans-Siberian way" and "Old bridges of Great Siberian way (III part)". It was a decisive contribution at the initial stage of photogallery historical section making. Also he helped by information. He gave a series of exhibits for Trans-Siberian Museum (old tickets in electronic view).

• Anisimov Dmitry (Moscow) - translated from Englsih to Russian the large naration by Mark Krebs from England about the trip from Beijing to Saint-Petesburg in 6 parts with an introduction.

• Balakirev Yury Gennad'evich (Vladivostok) - special thanks.

• Baronina Tatiana (Khabarovsk) - translated in 1999 most part of Transsib site pages into English (specially high-bulk historical article about Transsib) and also revised and corrected translations made by authors.

• Bedunkovich Sergey (Novokuznets) - sevt some vlauable archive photos and more 60 exhibits for Transsib Museum (cap-badges, emblems, badges, counters, old tickets).

• Belousov Alexey (Samara) - sent photos of old Samara station (2) and matherials about its building.

• Belyaev Kirill (Moscow) - sent photos of Moscow's and Moscow region's platforms, locomotives, electric trains.

• Bisher James (USA) - sent scanned old postcards of Great Siberian Way.

• Boldetsov Dmitry (Khabarovsk) - special thanks.

• Borisov Vyacheslav (Irkutsk) - gave for Trans-Siberian Museum some pictures of stamps.

• Bortnik Alexander (Sumy) - sent 3 photos from May 9th celebration in Vladivostok and photo series from his trip by Transsib.

• Brodovikov Alexey (Yekaterinburg) - special thanks.

• Bronnikov Mikhail (Kirov) - sent more than 80 photos of Kirov city and its environs, pictures of trains and locomotives. Also he gave for the site scanned timetable of Perm-Kotlass line from 1899, timetable of Transsib north and South Uralian ways from 1928, historical photo series from museum of Lyangasovo depot, many interesting exhibits for Transsib Museum.

• Bubis Edward (USA) - sent old postcards of Great Siberian Way.

• Burkova Valentina Fedorovna (Khabarovsk) - special thanks.

• Burkova Valeriya (Khabarovsk) - special thanks.

• Bystrov Alexey (Krasnoyarsk) - sent an anniversary edition of "Railway Buisness" journal (1991) published to centenary of Trans-Siberian way and also reported useful information.

• Chernova Tatyana (Yekaterinburg) - sent a photo of new Yekaterinburg termina; information about rights and duties of passengers and passenger tariffes - for a spring 2001 and brief extracts from tariffes came into their owns in June 2001.

• Chernoyarskiy Sergey (Khabarovsk) - handed over for the site two rare books about railways (1935 and 1959 years).

• "Delovaya Set' - Irkutsk" administration (Irkutsk) - special thanks.

• Design-studio "Buckingham" (St-Petersburg) - drew a banner 88*31 for the site.

• Dmitriev Sergey (Tol'yatti) - sent accurate information about locomotive park of various lines for Detailed Schemes of Transsib.

• Drozdov Maxim (St-Petersburg) - sent his photos for Photogallery.

• Fedorov Roman (Tyumen) - sent for he site new links to history of Transuralian towns and also some photos from Transuralian part of Sverdlovsk line.

• Flit Semen (Vyborgh) - sent accurate information aboute kilometrage of Northern and Gorky lines station for Transsib Handbook.

• Fominykh Ryurik (Khabarovsk) -  scanned for the site many photos by slide-scanner with excellent quality.

• Frolov Grigory (Kuznetsk, Penza region) - gave for publication old and modern photos of Kuznetsk station (www.allkuznetsk.ru).

• Ganyushkina Svetlana Petrovna (Khabarovsk) - repeatedly contributed to site high-handed action, also helped with copying of historical documents.

• Gogolev Alexander (Khabarovsk) - scanned for the site many photos by slide-scanner with excellent quality.

• Grishin Konstantin (Moscow) - sent useful information about accurate kilometrage of stations (from Tatarskaya to Balezino - Sverdlovsk and West Siberian lines) for Transsib Handbook; sent his photos with crash 1/04/2002 near Yaroslavskiy terminus in Moscow; a photo of Mytishchi station.

• Gvozdkov Alexander (Irkutsk) - gave a book by S. Medvedev "Irkutsk on picture postcards 1899-1917", from which 18 photos of Irkutsk station and neighbourhoods were scanned.

• Hedderly Piter (Great Britain) - special thanks.

• Hindin Joseph (Israel) - allowed to use an image of a poster from his site in Transsib Museum.

• Ivanov Alexey (Yekaterinburg) - gave his photos for the site (7)

• Kabanov Denis (Moscow) - sent 4 photos of electric locomotives of the first series from Perm.

• Kann Sergey (Novosibirsk), the head bibliographer SB RAN - given two his articles for publishing on the site and also reported valuable information about Transsib history.

• Kas'yanov V. P. (Khabarovsk, the head of DCNTI Far Eastern line) - gave for publication photo of the monument in honour of Transsib electrification completion at Ruzhino station.

• Khobta Alexander (Irkutsk) - see below.

• Khokhulin Vladimir (Murmansk) - sent for the site complete tariffes actual for the end of 2002.

• Kirdyanov Ivan (Novosibirsk) - sent more than 10 photos from near Baikal section of the way.

• Kirillov Peter (Novosibirsk) - sent photos from West Siberian line railway museum at Seyatel station.

• Klyucharyov Grigory (Moscow), professor - sent 3 photos from different places of Transsib and also placed a booklet "Die Transsibirische Eisenbahn" at the authors disposal.

• Kolontaevskiy Andrey (Vyzemskiy) - gave for publication his photos of Vyazenskaya station.

• Kochkin Alexey (Novosibirsk) - sent a photo from Krasnoyarsk line, collaborates with the site by information.

• Kondakov Alexander (Moscow) - sent historical shedule of transsiberian expresses in 1940/41, 3 photos of stations near Moscow, archive picture postcards of Trans-Baikal railway and also helped to verify number of features concerning Transsib.Konyushkin Georgiy (Shelekhov)

• Konyushkin Georgiy (Shelekhov) - given some photos from East Siberian line, verified data about stations and halts of East Siberian line.

• Korobova Galina (Irkutsk) - sent some photos for Photogallery and some exhibits for Museum.

• Krainev Andrey (Balashikha) - sent for the site Album of USSR railways of the 1968.

• Krasyukov Valentin Ivanovich (Irkutsk), the chief of Irkutsk children railway - gave postcards and copies of interesting articles for scanning.

• Krebs Mark (England) allowed to use his travel notes "From China to Russia" at our site.

• Krotov Anton (Moscow) - worte the book "Forward to Magadan!" where he granted rather much attention to Transsib kept for descendants colourful descriptions of trains, countries, stations; moreover one photo from his book is used in Photogallery.

• Kryachko Alexander (Dneprodzerzhindk, Ucraine) - wrote for the site and article about long locomotive arms.

• Krzyzozjak Mateusz (Vrozlav, Poland) - sent 12 interesting photos of stations and views from his travel along Transsib by a train Moscow - Pekin.

• Kuprienko Oleg (Moscow) - gave for the site a large article-study of professor Yu. V. Lomonosov buying mission to Western Europe in the beginning of the 20s.

• Kurochkin Vasily (Irkutsk), director of Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station museum - gave some valuable archive photos for the site about Transsib.

• Lamkin Andrey (Moscow) - special thanks.

• Links Dorfon (Australia) - sent for the site some photos of Tyumen station.

• Lysenko Anton (Omsk) - sent valuable information about West Siberian way, map of Omsk, booklet of firm trains, more 10 various photos, scans of postcards and info about suburbian communication of Omsk node.

• Lyubavin Sergey (Khabarovsk) - special thanks.

• Makshin Vyacheslav (Moscow) - sent an interest article from "Gudok" published in 1990 about a teenager-daltonik without right of electric locomotive operation led by Transsib 20 cargo trains.

• Maletin Veniamin (St-Petersburg) - allowed to use aspects of railway badges from his collection.

• Malykh Anton (Khabarovsk) - helped with make-up of texts for the site.

• Martynov Alexander (Khabarovsk) - sent historical photos from historical photos (2)

• Matveev Fedor (Moscow) - sent for the site two photos of "Rossiya" going by old way via Alexandrov last time.

• Maysky Nikolai (Moscow) - special thanks

• McRae Gail (Vancouver, Canada) - sent big historical photo of CEL from his archive and valuable information.

• Merzhchikov Alexander (Yaroslavl) - verified and supplemented data about Yaroslavl section of Transsib.

• Minosyan Anton (St-Petersburg) - made more precise and supplemented data about Transsib section from Bui to Kotelnich.

• Mishchenko Sergey Fedorovich (director of BAM construction history museum in Tynda) - placed unique photos of Naftaliy Frenkel and BAMlag period - the time of Transsib second tracks construction in the thirties at our disposal.

• Mitchell Frank (Australia) - sent rare photos of active steam locomotives P-36 made during his trip by Transsib in 1974.

• Morgunov Vitaly (Vladivostok) - sent photos of Vladivostok for Photogallery, some rare photos of old Vladivostok and scanned Transsib photos, altogether 15 photos.

• Morzhetskiy Igor (Kiev) - for help with optimization of Photogallery engine.

• Mostovoy Andrey (Chelyabinsk) - sent 30 wonderful photos from different places of Transsib for Photogallery and a rare photo of Stalin bust carved out in the rock near Amazar; made photos of South Uralian way of Transsib. He wrote the article "Transsib from the space" for the site and also an article about passing of anniversary train through Chelyabinsk...

• Motovilov Ivan (Irkutsk) - sent 3 photos from Siberian station Bol'shoy Lug.

• Mudryakov Andrey (Novosibirsk) - sent some photos from Novosibirsk and its environs and also photo series of Mogzon station.

• Muratov Vladimir (Moscow) - sent more 20 historical photos and large historical maps with excellent quality for publication in Transsib photoarchive. Also he allowed for the site scanned pre-revolutionary postcards, old maps, booklets of Circum-Baikal railway and Chinese Eastern line and photos with big resolution.

• Murrey Martin (Bristol, Great Britain) - checked English pages of the site in 1998-99 helped to make them easy to read.

• Museum of railway transport in St-Petersburg (director Zakrevskaya G. P.) - gave possibility to work with historical matherials about Transsib history in summer 2000.

• Mysin Alexander (Khabarovsk) - helped with make-up of pages for the section "Gudok about Transsib".

• Nazarov Oleg (Moscow) - sent scanned photos from East Siberian line and photos from Vladivostok.

• Nazimkin Vsevolod "Traveller" (Moscow) - wrote travell notes "Along the railway of dream" where he granted considerable attention to Transsib and its localities. He allowed to use theirs fragments at our site; moreover he gave photos from his travel in 2002 to BAM and Transsib.

• Nizhankovaskiy Yuri (Khabarovsk) - helped (on his equipment) to copy video films to CD.

• Nou Enn (Uppsala, Sweden) - sent some scanned postcards of Great Siberuian Way.

• Odinokih Svetlana, the main stock curator of the Museum of Sverdlovsk line (Yekaterinburg) history, science, technology - presented the book "Sverdlovsk truck-line" published to centenary of the line to the site.

• Penin Alexander (St-Petersburg) - gave for publication 2 photos from his photo collection.

• Petrov Andrey (Yekaterinburg) - gave 8 photos of working steam locomotives and monument steam locomotives from his photocollection for publication.

• Polevoda Andrey (Novosibirsk) - sent for Technial examination information about Transsib speeds at sections of West Siberian line (Nazyvaevskaya - Omsk - Novosibirsk - Mariinsk, Isil-Kul - Omsk and Tomsk - Taiga).

• Ponomareva N. S. (Director of CPH (Centre of Preservation of historical-culture Herritage) Archives, Irkutsk) - gave for publication at the site some photos of steam locomotives made at Baikal in the beginning of the 70s.

• Popov Yuri (Chicago, USA) - allowed to use his schemes of suburban communication in large cities at Transsib on the site.

• Potseluev Pavel (Seversk, Tomsk reg.) - sent for publication satellite photos of Primor'ye.

• Prokop'yev Sergey (Novosibirsk) - sent multitude information verifying accurate situation of station and halts non-found by the author on Transsib in Detailed Schemes and also cartographic information; made for the site some photos from Novosibirsk.

• Pyryaev Konstantin (Khabarovsk) - found useful links for the site and also Transsib photo from a sputnik (an area of Omsk).

• Rabochiy Sergey (Mytishchi) - made for the site photos of the sign '0 km' at Yaroslavsky terminus in Moscow.

• Redko Alexander Yevgenyevich (Khabarovsk) - handed for our site gift album "Great Way. Views of Siberia and Great Siberian Railway" (reprint of 1899 publication).

• Richalov Anton (Moscow) - gave for publication some photos from his trip by the route Moscow - Vladivostok.

• Robinson Philip (Great Britain, Sheffild) - sent his book "Early postcards of the Trans-Siberian Railway" and allowed to use pictures from it for our site.

• Romen Peter (Austria) - sent more 40 interesting photos for Photogallery, most part of them were published on the site.

• Rukhlov Alexander (St-Petersburg) - sent his photos for Photogallery.

• Salakhutdinov Bulat (Kazan') - sent a tariff table of long-distance trains that appreciably enriched a rubric "Trains and Costs" in 2000.

• Sapegina Leda (Khabarovsk) - make a photo of steam locomotive at Vladivostok station for the site.

• Sazonov Dmitry (Rostov-on-Don) - allowed to publish at the site his trip notes about travel from Rostov-on-Don to Vladivostok and also many photos made by him in this travel.

• Shafranov Il'ya (Moscow) - sent 20 photos of near Moscow and Yaroslavl Transsib sections for Photogallery, sent new links to cities and also gave verifying information for Handbook.

• Shchelokov Andrey (Samara) - gave for Transsib Museum some badges of railways subjects from his collection (in electronic form).

• Shulgin Vadim (Tula) - sent for the site some photos of locomotives and electric trains and an exhibit for Trans-Siberian Museum.

• Shmyrshtyu (Perm) - sent for the site more than 60 high quality photos of locomotives and trains invluding a group of rare photos of Kim Jong II armoured train and the monument "0 km" with queer kilometrage.

• Sirota Irina (Sweden) - translated from Swedish and sent ot the site trip notes by traveller Poul Stroutel went passed by train from Moscow to Nakhodka in the beginning of the 70s of the 20s century.

• Sobolev Vadim (Moscow) - consulted in problems of rolling stock and determination of exact photography places of some photos, sent his photos of trains for Photogallery.

• Sokolov Alexey (Moscow), an employee of "Gold Space" company - helped by efficient consultations about domain, site high-handed action and other aspects of Internet technologies.

• Starostin Mikhail (Krasnogorsk) - sent for the site some photos made by him in Far East and Siberia; furthered site author trips by Moscow localities.

• "Statpro", design-studio (Moscow) - special thanks

• Stein Ivo (USA, California) - sent rare fundamental book about Transsib - "To the Great Ocean", by Harmon Tupper, Boston, 1965. With the aid of this book many moments of Transsib history and right spelling of terms and localities at Transsib were found out exactly. Many photos from this exceptional book kept place in Transsib photoarchive.

• Sutyagin Dmitry (Obninsk) - sent for the site list and information about children railways are situated at Transsib.

• Svatikov Leonid (Moscow) - sent photos of near Moscow electric trains and old photos.

• Sychev Victor Ivanovich (Moscow) - gave for our site a series of valuable photos: anniversary Railway Ministry train, rare photos of Transbaikalian stations from helicopter and some others.

• Terletskiy Konstantin (USA, Massachusetts) - send many photos of near Moscow views and the book "The Great Railway in the World" that helped to understand Transsib position in the world railway history. Repeatedly he sent new interesting links for Cities and Towns of Transsib.

• Thoεns Bodo (Germany) - sent to site authors two books (his Guidebook, album of Anita Kreiss-Zorn and some booklets in German); about 10 interesting photos of stations and views from his travel by Transsib, a postcard from World exhibition in Paris in 1900, some scanned Transsib guidebooks in section "Book Shelf" and some exhibits for Trans-Siberian Museum.

• Tkachuk Sergey (Khabarovsk), webmaster - provided a hosting for the site about Transsib at "Edisoft" company server in 1998 - 2000 and also offered a knee to registration of www.transsib.fareast.ru domain for Russian version of this site.

• Topchiev Vladislav (Moscow) - photographed all the armoured train of Kim Jong II and allowed to use these photos on the site.

• Torgachkin I.P. (Novorossiysk) - sent for the site a picture of medal in memory of transfer of Chinese-Chahchun line in 1952.

• Tyulkevich Vasily (Moscow) - sent more than ten exhibits for Trans-Siberian Museum.

• Tytor Andrey (Khabarovsk) - gave for the site 4 photos with high quality.

• Ukhov Vyacheslav (Novosibirsk) - allowed for the site 2 his photos from railway museum.

• Ulanov Andrey (Moscow) - sent valuable information about accurate kilometrage of station in Ural, Central Russia and Siberia right until Taishet that helped to verifiy and supplement data haven by authors.

• Umnov Dmitry (Lyubertsy) - sent for our site a booklet of the train "Ural".

• van den Berg A.A. (Netherlands) - sent some photos of Transsib and also video fragment made at Shakhunya station (Gorky line)

• Vasil'kov Alexey (Moscow) - sent an article to historical section of the site "About past relations governed by law of CEL", unique photos from the place of the tunnel to Sakhalin construction and dimantling of Amur bridge and also a biography and a photo of I. A. Lyapustin, the author of Amur bridge reconstruction project.

• Vedernikov Gennady (Khabarovsk), contact man of Far Eastern line head - sent regular information about Far Eastern line activity in 1999 - 2000, historical publications, photos of Amur bridge, parlour car of marshal Blyukher and some other photos.

• Veselov Mikhail (Moscow) - sent for Transsib museum some exhibits (CEL stamps of the beginning of the 20s century and a badge from Stalin's series "Excellent workers").

• Vlasov Dmitry (Moscow) - gave more ten photos of Yaroslavl direction of Transsib.

• Voloshenko Viktor Grigor'evich (Khabarovsk) - allowed to use his exceptional photos of Amur bridge and its neighbourhood and also photos made at Far Eastern line in 1999-2002.

• Voskoboinikov Timur (?) - sent for our site a photo of water-tower in Berdsk and some other photos.

• Yamaltdinov Alexey (Yaroslavl) - sent for Photogallery photo series from Yarolslavl way of Transsib.

• Yushenkov Alexey (Moscow) - sent for the site "Yunost" train booklet.

• Yushin Vyacheslav (Khabarovsk) - sent archive photos of Khabarovsk station in 1949.

• Yushkova Anna (Khabarovsk) - took part in preparation of some site pages for publication.

• Zabotin Vladimir (Moscow) - sent for Trans-Siberian Museum aspect of Trans-Siberian stamp; for Technical examination - exclusive information (an article) about electric locomotive EP2.

• Zagoruiko Vyacheslav (Korfovskiy, Khabarovsk territory) - gave for Transsib Museum scan of his Railway Ministry's card.

• Zaitsev Nikolai (Kurgan) - sent for Photogallery and Technial examination photo of VL11 cabin, and also information about Transsib speeds at sections of South Uralian line (Chelyabinsk - Kurgan - Isil-Kul and Kamensk-Ur. - Kurgan).

• Zakharenkov Oleg (Smolensk) - sent for Trans-Siberian Museum aspects of anniversary coins.

• Zakharov Sergey (?) - sent some photos from Yurga - Mariinsk section and branch to Kemerovo.

• Zeldinov Sergey (Yaroslavl) - allowed to use his photos in Photogallery (2).

• Zelenov Ivan (Khabarovsk) - gave for Transsib Museum some badges of railways subjects from his collection.

• Zhanchipov Evgeny (Ulan-Ude) - sent photo series of Trans-Siberian railway for publication at the site, a rare night photo of steam locomotive P-36 and also some corrections to the site.

• Zimin Vasily (Saratov) - regularly sent various interesting materials about railways and during a half-year in 2000 conducted a part "Press about Rails". Also he sent historical photos of Transsib, photos from his trip to Far East and articels of Transsib themes; found valuable historical evidence - the rescript about twenty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of Great Siberian Way construction by Nikolai II; flash-file with crash in Gonzha in December 2001.

• Zinoviev Dmitry (USA, Boston) - special thanks

• Zverev Vitaly (Irkutsk) - presented a book about East Siberian line and a photoalbum published to centenary of East Siberian line and also reported valuable information for compiling of Transsib Handbook.

• Bogdanov Sergey (Moscow), Kirichenko Viktor (Moscow), Lebedev Kirill (Nizhniy Novgorod), Mamaev Maxim (?), Medvedev Mikhail (Moscow), Naumova V. (Vladivostok), Rubtsov Semen (Novosibirsk), Shtutin Leonid (St-Petersburg), Starostin Mikhail (Moscow), Zakharov ? (?), Zhuravlev Igor (Vladivostok) - reported useful information about different sides of Transsib operation that helped when making and filling site pages.

• Alexeev Sergey (Moscow), Vologdin S.N. (?), Dorokhov Grigory (?), Dudnevs Stanislav And Alexander (Moscow), Egorov Il'ya (Krasnoyarsk), Erofeev Pavel (Khabarovsk), Jaap Hoogenboom (Netherlands), Korovina Dar'ya (Irkutsk), Koshelev Alexander (Irkutsk), Kozlova Olga (Irkutsk), Krivenyshev Alexander (Baley, Transbaikal),  Kurzaev Sergey (Moscow), Kuznetsov Alexander (Irkutsk), Levin Nikolay (Moscow), Men'shikov Konstantin (Moscow), Pavlichenkov Andrey (?), Proshin Grigory, Pushkin Nikolai (?), Semenov Mikhail (Khabarovsk), Seredkin Maxim (?), Shmykov Alexey (Bratsk), Sobolev Vadim (?), Svinchukov Andrey (Khabarovsk), Tikhonov Mikhail (Kazan), Trushin Anton (?), Yats Atol (Tallinn), Zakharov Sergey (Moscow),  Zemskov Alexander (Arkadak) - for photo sending, Zubkov V. (Novosibirsk) sent or allowed to used their Transsib photos in Photogallery.

• Abunagimov Evgeny (Ryazan), Adzhiev Alim (Krasnodar), Khviler Ya.P. (?), Shep Kris (Estonia), Melnichenko Sergey (Smolensk), Vygranenko Mikhail (Novosibirsk), Walker Neil (England), Zakharenkov Andrey (Smolensk) - sent various exhibits for  Trans-Siberian Museum.

Circum-Baikal railway:

• Adamskiy Dmitry (Sarov) - sent some photos made in 1960 by his grandfather.

• Andreev Ivan (USA, California) - sent 14 photos of Circum-Baikal railway scanned from tsarist picture postcards.

• Bystrov Alexey (Krasnoyarsk) - sent journal "Railway Buisness" (1991) with historical article about Circum-Baikal railway.

• Caffrey Joe (England) - sent 2 drawings of "Baikal" ice-breaker.

• Ivanov Denis (Irkutsk) - gave 15 his photos for Photogallery.

• Jungmann Jan (Prague) - sent a photo of armoured train "Prague" on Circum-Baikal railway.

• Karmanov Dmitry (Irkutsk) - gave 3 his photos for Photogallery.

• Khobta Alexander (Irkutsk) - special thanks

• Kirdyanov Ivan (Moscow) - sent 5 photos for Photogallery.

• Kozhanovskaya Yelizaveta (Irkutsk) - gave 2 photos of train lead by steam locomotive for Photogallery.

• Krasota Natalia (Khabarovsk) - translated texts for English version of Circum-Baikal railway in its initial variant of creation (autumn - winter 1999).

• Krasyukov Valentin Ivanovich (Irkutsk), the chief of Irkutsk children railway - gave postcards and a copy of interesting article for scanning and also materials about dismantled line Irkutsk - Baikal.

• Kurochkin Vasily Lazarevich (Irkutsk), direktor of Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station museum - placed an unique album with photos (more than 40) of Circum-Baikal construction at our disposal.

• Kuznetsov Alexander (Irkutsk), allowed to publish his photos at our site.

• Makovsky Alexander (Usolie-Sibirskoe) - sent to authors CD-ROMs "Baikal Encyclopedia" where materials about Circum-Baikal railway from our site among others were in.

• Nikolaev Alexander (Moscow) - gave for the site his article about travel to Circum-Baikal railway and sent some scanned photos for Photogallery.

• Orekhovs Alexander and Julia (Irkutsk) - gave more 20 their photos for Photogallery and also theirs article for publication at the site.

• Ponomareva N. S. (Director of CPH (Centre of Preservation of historical-culture Herritage) Archives, Irkutsk) - gave for publication at the site a photo of steam locomotives made at Baikal in the beginning of the 70s.

• Pospelov Mikhail (Berezniki) - reported useful information about different sides of Transsib operation that helped when making and filling site pages.

• Potapov Evgeny (Irkutsk) - sent his photos for photogallery and placed an journal "Irkutsk Land" (1997) with an article about Circum-Baikal railway and rares historical photos at our disposal.

• Prokopchuk Sergey (Irkutsk) - sent in a picture to site authors and placed 4 his pictures (scanned copies) with views of Circum-Baikal railway in Photogallery.

• Rogovoy Sergey (Barnaul) - sent a story about his travel by Circum-Baikal railway in 2001.

• Romen Peter (Austria) - sent a many beautiful photos for Photogallery.

• Shestakov Alexey (Irkutsk) - gave more 10 photos for Photogallery.

• Shirokikh Anastasiya (Irkutsk) - translated "The prospects of other railway variants".

• "Statpro", design-studio (Moscow) - special thanks

• Stein Ivo (USA, California) - sent rare fundamental book about Transsib - "To the Great Ocean", by Harmon Tupper, Boston, 1965. With the aid of this book many moments of Circum-Baikal railway and right spelling of terms and localities at Circum-Baikal railway were found out exactly.

• Taewsky Dmitry (Irkutsk) - special thanks

• Vanek Jan (Prague) - sent 2 two photos of tunnel 39 after it was blown up in 1918.

• Zverev Vitaly (Irkutsk) - presented a book and an album devoted to centenary of East Siberian line with valuable facts and materials by the site subject in them and also sent an photo for Photogallery.

• Asger Christiansen (Denmark), Elena Fisher (Irkutsk), Yury Illarionov (Angarsk), Alexey Kalinovskiy (Moscow), Valentina Kalmykova (Tomsk), Alnton Kolesnikov (Angarsk), Olga Kardash (Tomsk), Alexander Koshelev (Irkutsk), Natalia Koval (Irkutsk), Victor Marynikhin (Irkutsk), Alexey Mekhonoshin (Irkutsk), Oleg Nazarov (Moscow), Yury Silantyev (Krasnoyarsk), Sergey Snopkov (Kultuk), Mikhail Stepantsov (Irkutsk), Valentin AKA tekhnik76 (Irkutsk), Sergey Zakharov (Moscow),  - sent or allowed to used their Circum-Baikal photos in Photogallery.

Our special thanks:

• Administration of "Delovaya Set' - Irkutsk" server (Irkutsk) - sheltered our site with free hosting from September 2002 to November 2007 at high-speed server www.dsi.ru and also undertook technical service of the transsib.ru domain

• Balakirev Yury Gennad'evich (Vladivostok), editor in chief of newspaper "Newscast of Pacific ocean Russia" - helped with work on Trans-Siberian site in the very critical period of its existence, domain Transsib.ru was registered and trip along Trans-Siberian way in 2000 was made with his assistance. He published materials about the site, placed photoalbums of railways being along Transsib itinerary and some photos published at the site at hte authors disposal.

• Boldetsov Dmitry (Khabarovsk) - at all times of existence Transsib and Circum-Baikal sites promoted solutions of current tasks, scanned slides and photos, drew compositions (for example obverse logotype for the both sites), helped with getting various materials for the site, created maps of sections and transport centres of Transsib in GIF and AI format including large maps of Transsib and Russia time zones, promoted nowdays Internet access for everyday high-handed action of the site.

• Brodovikov Alexey (Yekaterinburg) - sent more 30 photos from Ural section of Transsib and also informed Sergey Sigachyov about valuable information for Transsib Handbook (the section from Tyumen to Balezino) compiling and links for Photogallery. Twice in 1999 and 2000 gave rare possibility to go along near Ural and Kamensk-Ural Transsib sections by locomotive CS-2. Gave for Transsib Museum the sign "Engine-driver 2 class"

• Burkova Valentina Fedorovna (Khabarovsk), direktor of Far Eastern line history museum - helped with verification many factual data about Transsib, afforded an opportunity to use valuable photos on site pages and always helped with access to various literature in railways history, illustrated albums and Guidebook along Great Siberian Way (1900 year).

• Burkova Valeriya (Khabarovsk) - helped with translation of site pages into English, translated an article about Chinese Eastern line history, also revised and corrected some translations made by Sergey Sigachyov. She helped to gain access to many valuable sources about history Trans-Siberian way and to verify number of details. She selected and annotated photocollections of Amur bridge history. She allowed to publish some her articles about Great Siberian Way problems at our site. She gave for publications maps, texts and photos from Guidebook along CEL in 1903, materials about Transsib electrification. He gave a series of exhibits for Trans-Siberian Museum in electronic view.

• Hedderly Piter (Great Britain), manager of GW Travel company - gave a chance to make a short cruise by route Khabarovsk - Vladivostok and to make many valuable photos and a videofilm; moreover he sent some photos of working steam locomotives and a booklet about an unique steam locomotive tour about Russian with 20,000 kilometres length.

• Khobta Alexander (Irkutsk) - placed accuratest data about situation of various objects on the railway and dating of various events at our disposal and also wrote interesting articles for the site. By the instrumentality of him the site "Circum-Baikal railway" found more great information quality. Also he sent some modern and many rare, collectionary photos for Trans-Siberian site and also more 30 photos for Circum-Baikal site.

• Lamkin Andrey (Moscow) - organized placing of Transsib site mirror in departmental net of Intranet of Railway Ministry (RF Railway Ministry); sent more 30 photos of various locomotives including unusual seies and also photos from crash in Gonzha.

• Lyubavin Sergey (Khabarovsk) - created for our site a whole complex of stablely working programmes: a) automated system of news adding (news line) for both language versions; b) a programme of adding and editing of links section for both language versions (MySQL); a programme of adding and editing of Trans-Siberian Museum for both language versions (MySQL) - with sorting, rating and counting of exhibits; he consulted the authors about using of programmed scripts and forum correcting; took part in debugging and testing of them.

• Maysky Nikolai (Moscow) - very appreciably assisted the author of Transsib in site promotion in 2000; helped by consultations in problems of Internet technologies and domain registration. Also he sent archive photos and his photos for Photogallery.

• "Statpro", design-studio (Moscow) - made for our projects - "Transsib" and "Circum-Baikal railwa" - set of buttons and banners rather accurately expressing deep essence of our projects - romatic side of trips, aspirations forward, knowledge of rare places and power of locomotives that helped to form memorable image of these sites. Their another works are here.

• Taevsky Dmitry (Irkutsk) - rendered two Khabarovsk people (Sergey Sigachyov and Dmitry Boldetsov) invaluable assistance in organization a walking tour along Circum-Baikal railway that straight promoted birth of "Circum-Baikal ralway" site and also gave site hosting at server "Delovaya Set' - Irkutsk" and from September 2002 for large "Transsib".

• Zinoviev Dmitry (USA, Boston), an author of "Steam Locomotive IS" - gave automatic basis (engine) for new Photogallery of our site on February, 2004; it allowed to economize much time; he provided help by valuable advices at the initial stage of site making, administratored by him "Steel Circle of Russia" (association of resources devotes railways and undergrounds of ex-USSR) brought at our sites multitude of grateful visitors. Information from shedules and maps collections gathered by him was very useful for making Transsib Handbook. Some photos from his photocollections (concerning Transsib) also are accessible to visitors of this site.