Amur Railway

The construction of this railway favoured the development of the gold mining industry, logging, fisheries and the fur trade in Siberia and Russian Far East.

In 1905, the city duma of Blagoveshchensk, urged by local merchants and industrialists, turned to the Council of Ministers with a request to build the Amur section of the Transsib.

They had to build a temporary road in the swampy middle section of the future Amur Railway for the purpose of delivering the ballast for the line.

In 1912, a talented engineer Alexander Liverovsky was put in charge of the construction of the eastern section of the Amur Railway.

Also, they built a number of repair shops and sawmills, therefore there was no need to transport railroad ties and squared timber to construction sites.

At the suggestion of Alexander Liverovsky, the engineers devised a method of building piers with the use of heated concrete in below-zero weather conditions.