West Siberian Railway

West Siberian Railway (Russian: Западно-Сибирская железная дорога, Zapadno-Sibirskaya zheleznaya doroga) is a Rail operator of Russian Railways and part of the Great Trans-Siberian Railway crossing the Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk, and Altai regions of the Russian Federation as well as a portion of Kazakhstan.

The mainline was built between 1892 and 1896 by the Russian imperial government under Sergei Witte.

The Turkestan–Siberia Railway branches off from Barnaul to the south, connecting Siberia to Central Asia.

Took place on the territory of Orenburg, Tobolsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk provinces of Akmolinsk region.

[3] October 1, 2003, the road became part of Russian Railways company.