trans-siberian
3."To me, "says Sergei, "it looked like the Trans-Siberian Express."
4.A city of south-central Siberian U.S.S.R. on the Ob River east of Omsk. An important transportation hub on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, it prospered after the development of the Kuznetsk Basin. Population,1, 393, 000.
5.A city of western Siberian U.S.S.R. at the confluence of the Irtysh and Om rivers. On the Trans-Siberian Railroad, it is a major river port and transportation hub. The city was founded in1716. Population,1, 108, 000.
6.It was a quarter of a century after the completion of the American road that the Russians got started on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the Russians used more than two hundred thousand Chinese to do it, as compared with the American employment of ten thousand or so Chinese.
