Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Including the Smolensk

In October, Smolenskaya Zemskaya provincial government to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the motion that the proposal of the Government of the rail connection with Warsaw Moscow was made through Smolensk. As an argument to prove the need to implement this plan, government states that: "significant military value of the Moscow-Warsaw road. Economic manufakturnoy need to connect the center of industry in Moscow from the North-West region, devoid of any industrial development. Disadvantageous to the interests of Russian folk solitude and alienation colonized the Belarusian and Lithuanian provinces of the Russian spirit and the center of Russian life. "

In 1867, a private company, whose founders were the Riga department store Alexander Shepelera and K ° and the banking house Zultsbah from Frankfurt-am-Main, is building a Moscow-Smolensk road.

December 18, 1869 after meeting with the Emperor Alexander II was ordered to establish a railway network project, which was to be built each year about 500 miles of strategic roads.

In pursuance of the order of 8 Feb, 1870, Minister of Communications Count Bobrinsky, replacing General Melnikova April 20, 1868, introduced to the Committee a draft of a new railway network, which included non-existent line networks: from Smolensk to Brest with a change in direction, instead of through the Mogilev Minsk , Orsha and Borisov, from Brest to one of the items Kijevo-Baltic railway lines did not change in the Zhytomyr and Volyn-Novgorod, and of the shortest path to Berdichev Exactly, one of the items Kursk-Kiev railway to Vitebsk, but not on direction through the Mogilev and Vitebsk, and Minsk in Minsk, Landvarovo other (already in 1869 - 1870 years of the need to get up the railway line, which then passed Libava-Romenskaya Railway).

In 1870, was granted permission to build only three new network of roads (24 roads and 3 branches), including the Smolensk-Brest. Smolensk-Brest railway is part of the line, the establishment of a connection to Warsaw and Moscow governor Kingdom of Poland Count Berg moved in 1866.

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