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Turkestan-Siberia Railway
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Turkestan–Siberia Railway
The
Turkestan–Siberian Railway
(commonly abbreviated as the
Turk–Sib
, Kazakh: Түрксіб; Russian: Турксиб) is a
broad gauge
railway that connects
Central Asia
with
Siberia
. It starts north of
Tashkent
in
Uzbekistan
at
Arys
, where it branches off from the
Trans-Caspian Railway
. It heads roughly northeast through
Shymkent
,
Taraz
,
Bishkek
(on a spur) to the former
Kazakh
capital of
Almaty
. There it turns northward to
Semey
before crossing the
Russian
border. It passes through
Barnaul
before ending at
Novosibirsk
, where it meets the
West Siberian portion
of the
Trans-Siberian railway
. The bulk of construction works was undertaken between 1926 and 1931.
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