Siberian Route
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The Siberian Route (Russian: Sibirsky trakt, Сибирский тракт), also known as the Moscow Route (Moskovsky trakt, Московский тракт) and Great Route (Bolshoi trakt, Большой тракт), was a historic route that connected European Russia to Siberia and China. The construction of the road was decreed by the Tsar two months after the conclusion of the Treaty of Nerchinsk, on 22 November 1689, but it did not start until 1730 and was not finished until the mid-19th century.
The route started in Moscow as the Vladimir Highway and passed through Murom, Kozmodemyansk, Kazan, Perm, Kungur, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Tobolsk, Tara, Kainsk, Tomsk, Yeniseysk, Irkutsk, Verkhneudinsk, Nerchinsk before terminating at Kyakhta, a trade post on the border with China. The route then continued across Inner Mongolia to a Great Wall gate at Kalgan.
In the early 19th century, the route was moved to the south. From Tyumen the road proceeded through Yalutorovsk, Ishim, Omsk, Tomsk, Achinsk and Krasnoyarsk before rejoining the older route at Irkutsk. It remained a vital artery connecting Siberia with Moscow and Europe until the last decades of the 19th century, when it was superseded by the Trans-Siberian Railway.
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- Avery, Martha. The Tea Road: China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe. Mandarin Books, 2003. ISBN 7508503805.
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