Transport / Railway / Russia:Trans-Siberian Railway (railway line between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean; built 1891-1903; last part of the line completed in 1916; length: 9297 km).A Bashkir railway worker (switchman?) near the town Ust-Katav on the Yuryuzan River between Ufa and Cheliabinsk in the Ural Mountain region.Photo by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (also: Pokudin-Groskii); c.1910; digitally coloured.