Is this Russia’s Smartest Idea in History?

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During the first 400 years under Russian rule, Siberia was largely undeveloped. But that changed in the mid 1800s, when the political center of gravity shifted to the Western Pacific. Many European countries started to establish themselves in this region, and Russia realized that their lack of development in Eastern Siberia was a strategic weakness. Their choice was to either develop the region, or to risk that another nation would do it for them. They chose to build a railroad.
This is the story of the Trans Siberian Railroad with Hindsight.
FULL TRANSCRIPT + SOURCES:
docs.google.com/document/d/1g...
MAIN SOURCES:
Road to power : the Trans-Siberian railroad and the colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1917
archive.org/details/dli.pahar...
History of Trans-Siberian Railway:
rusmania.com/history-of-trans...

[@HindsightYT]

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[@tyalikanky]

*RasputiTSa - fix this on 5:30

[@user-db9ch7sq7h]

There is information available, where we can finde (east europe) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

[@nikolayparygin610]

not rasputista. but rasputica (rasputitsa)

[@JKRoss-zm3zu]

Vladivostok and Khabarovsk are not Siberia, this region is called Dalniy Vostok

[@Maelli535]

@@JKRoss-zm3zu i.e.: The Far East

[@darkpr1est]

So it means that the British Empire had a monarchy, and the Russian Empire had an autocracy. Okay, alright. The double standards in any european or american rhetoric towards Russia are no longer surprising😂

[@aero4379]

Nice try but unlike the tsars, the British monarchy is merely decorative.

[@vladimir_nazimov]

Двойные стандарты существуют всегда. На них жалуются только те, кто не может эффективно действовать в таких условиях.

[@darkpr1est]

@@aero4379 yeah.. an Indian colony with 165 million people killed over 40 years is also an interesting decoration for an empire.. Even the Nazis didn’t kill so many people, although I must admit they had 7 times less time.

[@darkpr1est]

@@vladimir_nazimov да я не жалуюсь) кто вообще жалуется в интернете?😂😂 это просто факт.

[@darkpr1est]

@@aero4379 yeah.. an Indian colony with 165 million people killed over 40 years is also an interesting decoration for an empire. Even the Nazis didn’t kill so many people, although I must admit they had 7 times less time

[@davidekerold9071]

My grandfather was one of the workers on this Trans-Siberian Railroad. That is where he learnt his trade as an engineer of Railroads and bridges. He moved to South Africa and ended up building many thousands of kilometers of railways and many bridges which are functional to this day.

[@Kenny-yl9pc]

I am sorry you guys have to suffer from your incompetent and corrupt government... I cannot imagine how difficult life must be down there in SA...

[@vladimirnikolskiy]

My great-grandfather was an engineer and participated in the construction of the railway connecting Siberia with Turkestan (Turksib). Interestingly, back in 1907, when the first work on the implementation of Turksib took place, some Western experts were surprised by such an idea from Moscow. After all, according to their calculations, the Asian provinces mainly benefited from the road, and the center, as they believed, did not have any special benefits from this project.

[@monaliza3334]

​​​@@Kenny-yl9pcIt's much better than in 🇺🇸, we are 👍 🇿🇦... You should worry more about your immigration problems.

[@BasutuEquestrian]

Wow that’s amazing! - another South African here! Yes, South Africa is an incredible country with incredible people. Far more good than bad people in the land. Powerful, awesome changes are coming to South Africa 🇿🇦 in the next decade. Huge number of Christians and beautiful emerging leaders. ❤

[@anatoligraour1038]

Good story, thanks for sharing, I know that during the revolution in 1917, two ships arrived from Russia to South Africa, and I meet many people here with Russian ancestors. Salut from Kalahari.

[@JPJ432]

Fun Fact about Russia: It was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as either a puppet state of London or to be fully brought back into the fold of the British Empire. London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene. Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it. There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.

[@JPJ432]

The Russian fleet also threatened to Shell Australian ports along with other British Pacific Colonies if Britain aided the Confederates. A confederate war ship spent a lot of time in Australian waters and was supported by the Australian public, some even signing on as crew members. This Confederate war ship laid waist to the US Pacific whaling fleet and is reported to have fired the last shot in the war. The name of the ship was called the CSS Shenandoah. Its surrender was at Liverpool England where Confederate Commander Bulloch was stationed Russia also helped Thailand (Kingdom of Siam) maintain its sovereignty from being completely Partitioned/Annexed from the British and French around the same time. The very word Thai (ไทย) means 'free man' in the Thai language which is partially to thank to the Russians as they might have ended up being a colony or part of another country/colony if not for their intervention.

[@user-lp6yx7ml7h]

I heard this quote in Russia; Like the Russian double-headed eagle, the American eagle spread its wings to the west and east.

[@Oobido]

Fun fact. The act of Union 1707 joined England and Scotland. Since then England can't go and fight wars on its own. It's 2024 and you have access to the internet so no excuses.

[@OrtonHeadXIV]

Funny how we repay them now lmao

[@JPJ432]

@@OrtonHeadXIV For a little more context: The British (City of London) are the ones who created our divide in the first place to put brother against brother. After the war Lincoln wanted to rebuild the South and had plans to do so. He and half his Cabinet were assassinated by London. Many of the others that survived had multiple assassination attempts on them especially William Seward who had like a dozen or so, many almost killing him. Most of the Operations for the Civil War and post war plans and assassinations were made in London and then sent to Montreal a hub for spies and intel in the Americas for the British Empire then passed through to Confederate President Jefferson Davis to follow the orders. Many of the South's own leaders were selling out the South to British interest even General Lee. Unfortunately London had many of their Tentacles and Webs on both sides. Lincoln stated that the Department Of State is completely controlled by British Interest that he had to constantly fight against. It was in the 1870s that a Paradigm Shift happened were the British took control within the Reunited States through subversion (which was easy to do so as all their agents were brought back into the Union and a large part of their opposition killed) and have had it all the way up to this day. Some presidents fought against it like Garfield, McKinley, Harding, Roosevelt, and Kennedy and all were killed. That is the Decade that we turned from a Republic and into an Empire.

[@GrayAnonimoff]

"США Луизиану купила" - "Россия аннексировала земли в Японском море". Ооооокей :) Американский вариант и формулировка истории такой забавный!

[@jozette-pierce]

Actually Thomas Jefferson PAID the French several million dollars for the Louisiana Purchase. Also, several million was paid to Russia, for Alaska. Most Americans had integrity, believe it or not, and they took their Christian Faith seriously, and did not just give it lip service, like some other countries

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

USA did buy Louisiana from France and Alaska from Russia. Did Russia buy land from Japan? Probably not. So what's your problem?

[@olekscap4620]

@@DutchmanAmsterdam Ainu territories are not Japan.

[@Vlashr]

@@GrayAnonimoff Россия, как и другие европейские державы, не истребила коренное население полностью, однако бои были, и местами очень кровавые. Поднимать вопрос о законности всего этого наверное может прийти в голову только россиянам, как у нас сейчас, спустя 30 лет приватизации, вдруг решили восстановить Справедливость, отобрав заводы у случайных 10ых владельцев. При этом Россия последняя страна, которой следовало бы поднимать такое вопрос (о законности завоеваний). Расскажите про ваше простое правило украинцам.

[@GrayAnonimoff]

@@Vlashr Я не знаю зачем и куда вы повели разговор, но отвечу: приватизация была незаконной. 10 владельцев разбогатели на этом, доведя производства до банкротства или до предбанкротного состояния. 10 владельцев за 30 лет! Вы сами понимаете суть происходившего? А сейчас происходит возврат имущества хозяину - государству. Умелый предприниматель найдёт в себе силы своё предприятие основать и развить, всё для этого у него есть. А жизненно важные для государства предприятия должны полностью подчиняться государству.

[@markmccormack1796]

Another genius idea of the Russian railroad is that they made the gauge larger than those in Europe. This became very important in 1941. The German trains wouldn't fit on the Russian tracks. The gauge difference significantly slowed down the Germans supply chain and troop movements as the war moved East.

[@user-xm6zs6ez6i]

Well done, you found the reason for the victory of the Russians, who were not prevented by the size of the track from reaching Berlin 🤦‍♂

[@MsJokerson]

Так-то это просто другой британский стандарт ширины железнодорожной колеи, который укоренился в России - 5 футов. В Европе укоренилось 4 фута. Кстати этот стандарт (5 футов) был и в южных штатах США до гражданской войны.

[@zaco-km3su]

Not a genius idea. It was to transport more stuff.

[@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126]

@@user-xm6zs6ez6i leading up to the German invasion, the Soviets were actually preparing to launch an invasion into Germany. One of the ways we can tell they were planning on doing this because they built supply stations and tracks with the German gauge, meaning that it was an offensive posture. A huge reason the Germans had so much initial success was because the Soviets weren't prepared to fight a defensive war. Also, the distance between berlin and the border of the USSR was a LOT shorter than the distance between Moscow and the border of Germany.

[@user-xm6zs6ez6i]

@@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 that the Germans were opposed by the Ukrainians, who surrendered the entire territory, and only then the Russians joined the battle and it was the Russians who defeated the Germans near Moscow in 1942 (this was the beginning of the end for the Germans) and the Russians did not surrender their cities (for example, St. Petersburg-Petersburg was in ambush all the years of the war, but did not give up). Learn history not from Hollywood movies, then you will know who took Berlin (it wasn't Brad Pitt).

[@RustedCroaker]

Fun fact: Tomsk was by far the biggest city in the west Siberia. But their elders refused to get this railroad near the city. Now Novosibirsk, at the time a small town to the south, is 3 times bigger than Tomsk.

[@guydreamr]

Facts, Bald & Bankrupt did a video on this as well.

[@Hot-dog-uq5gp]

same situation with Tyumen and Tobolsk

[@JPJ432]

Railroads can bring much life and vitality to a region. They are in essence a Navigable River where there is not one. No better way to increase the economy and livelihood of a countries Interior than Railroads.

[@abbeystump]

In Tomsk the River and road transport owners were against the Railroad.😮

[@samirSch]

This week french president Macron came to Brazil so socialist Lula could sell the country to him (we have a shared border with Guyana which is a french territory, so France is our "neighbor" on Amazon and want its riches. Also, they were all using an "indigenous leader" to back up the claim that Ferrogrão ("Irongrain") railroad shouldn't be construct (and thus help french and american agro against brazilian competition). Fking sellouts.

[@robertalaverdov8147]

Not trying to poo on your title too much, I understand headline sensationalism with you tube. But Siberia was already mostly integrated into the Russian empire by the time of the railroads construction. The vast Siberian river system was vital to trade and logistics. And the massive fur trade along with mineral exploitation made Siberia essential to Russia's economy long before oil and gas. What the railroad enabled was quicker travel but more importantly travel in all seasons. With winter being the obvious bottleneck.

[@HindsightYT]

Thanks for sharing your perspective! But I'm not sure if I entirely agree. I do agree that Siberia was already integrated into the Russian Empire to some extent, and I wouldn't say that the Trans Siberian Railroad was part of Russia's conquest of Siberia. But the Russian elite found it necessary to build the railroad to improve its defense of Eastern Siberia, as they were worried about primarily China and the UK. I may be wrong, but it sounds like you're implying that the railroad was primarily built to facilitate better logistics for trade. Where I believe that this was a secondary reason. The main objective was to address security concerns to prevent Siberia from being invaded or colonized by another nation.

[@robertalaverdov8147]

@@HindsightYT I'm not implying it wasn't important for defense. Especially with the advent of modern war and the logistics chain that it entails. Just that the title in it of itself is contradictory. How can you conquer something that you've already conquered? Did the railroad help secure and defend the conquest later on, sure. And again I'm aware that this would not be as attention grabbing of a statement. Good vid overall!

[@Erhogz]

@@HindsightYT If you have a big country - you need some fast ways for logistics. You can trade with China and with Europe using the same road and to not being relatedon the sea way(UK built Suez canal to get faster way to China but for Russia who have a border with China will be much easier to use railroad and sell permition to use it then using Suez and paid to UK for example). And ofc delivery goods like furs or cavier from eastern parts of Russia to Europe. Don't forget that railroads in Russia wasn't a private independant business - most railroads were owned by the fund belong to imperial family as some other such businesses like all alcohol enterprise including producing and distribution - all were belong to the imperial family so it was in their direct interests to develop and maintaining railroads across empire.

[@RustedCroaker]

Winter wasn't a bottleneck. On the contrary it was the best time to travel. Rivers and bogs are all frozen. Just slide over. The worst were a spring and autumn. When it not frozen or dry yet.

[@13thbiosphere]

Effective economic development of the area required railway

[@mmartinezsaito]

"the snow in the Arctic would melt and turn these rivers into raging torrents" except that all the major rivers of Siberia flow _into_ the Arctic Ocean

[@user-xu8ud4lm7s]

The artic snow stopped the mouth or the confluence of these rivers. The blocked waters rose up in level and turned huge areas of the tundra into swamps. As the Arctic Ocean melts these waters drainout causing raging torrents.

[@valdivia1234567]

We've been told that the Arctic ice will disappear since the 80s. I just heard it again about 3 weeks ago lol.

[@mmartinezsaito]

@@user-xu8ud4lm7s even if there were ''snow'' (which there is not, since it snows very little in the tundra) it would not stop the flows of those rivers, especially of giants like the Lena or Yenisei, several km wide; waters won't rise anywhere because there is gravity and an ocean nearby; raging torrents occur on mountainous terrain, not on river mouths

[@zaco-km3su]

No exceptions. Snow doesn't melt as fast everywhere. This often happened.

[@zaco-km3su]

@@user-xu8ud4lm7s Bingo. he doesn't know what he's talking about.

[@sanitar-otti320]

Actually, not China ruled Siberia, but some siberian tribes like Mongols and Mandchu ruled China.

[@user-lu1ji4cl1m]

China has been sitting behind the Chinese Wall throughout its history.

[@sanitar-otti320]

@@user-lu1ji4cl1m But the Manchu Emperors, who came to power in 17th century, were also a primitive Siberian humter-gatherer-tribe.

[@user-lu1ji4cl1m]

​@@sanitar-otti320 - Manchu not primitive - they ruled in Beiging, - China was primitive

[@kimpark283]

​@@user-lu1ji4cl1mmanchus were primitive barbarians dat invented nothing. China was light years ahead of all civilizations. Ask Marco Polo. It was called the middle Kingdom. Over half of the inventions dat power modern society are Chinese ( compass,, paper, levees, gunpowder, to name a few)

[@moist.politician]

@@user-lu1ji4cl1m chinese is less primitive than manchu, the manchus had to use chinese elements to their infrastructure because they dont have a good and rich culture

[@hi-ib1sh]

Why does everyone hate Russia it’s in a war because Russia is trying to defend itself against nato and also Russia tried to join nato about 20 years ago and nato refused because nato wouldn’t have a purpose if Russia was in nato

[@animon_design]

You don't have to start a war to defend yourself from NATO. Quite the opposite.

[@spitzrb5376]

cause of a lot of propoganda against russians, and most people can't think for themself and trust everything news says

[@dakotaflowers0]

Russia is NOT protecting itself from nato. It's trying to recapture the land that encompassed "the former Soviet union" boundaries by way of literal murder. They have zero claim to Ukraine as it's a seperate society with a different language (albeit a minor difference and I recognize that after nearly a century of Soviet rule, the majority of Ukranian also speak russian) so therefore your claim is inaccurate. That and nobody hates Russia. The current leader and all the oligarchs? Absolutely. Learn the difference.

[@dannylive3000]

🤖

[@paulbo9033]

This

[@mladenmatosevic4591]

Trans Siberian railway was one step in complexity up from railways across North America. It is longer, in worse climatic conditions and with more natural obstacles.

[@abbeystump]

The BAM tops them all in regards to complex in particular the permafrost rivers and tunnels.

[@ab9840]

At least where the rail-line runs through they do not tend to get quakes. The 2001 Atico 8.4 quake in southern Peru caused landslides which blocked some rail-lines. Some minor damage of some rail tunnels were seen. At least no rail bridges were damaged.

[@user-tr6ob9ej1z]

People in Siberia do not consider themselves subjects of the Chinese Emperor))) what kind of nonsense is this??

[@vatnikxxi7717]

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

[@jussikankinen9409]

Reindeer people dont care or know borders in nature they are only in maps and people heads who think they can own land

[@burick1115]

скорее всего речь про коренное население, проживавших возле Амура

[@arckanumsavage2822]

С них просто брали дань монголы. Но автору по фиг монголы или китайцы -😅

[@chatdanslesbottes8212]

He is a damn American, what do you exept?

[@njd2342]

Russia should never have sold Alaska.

[@Kripi8800]

Так верните её нам 😑😑😑

[@LuiSharPei]

They never sold it. It's on the lease agriment.

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

But they did.

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

​@@LuiSharPei Nope, it was sold in 1867.

[@Kripi8800]

​@@LuiSharPeiпизда что они получается кварт плату задолжали...

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

Every video I watch on the building of the Siberian Railroad BLOWS ME AWAY even more!!! The logistics to build this railway today would make it the most difficult project to complete, so I can't even wrap my head around how they built it back then. No disrespect to the other transcontinental railway projects, but when you look at the length/land/environment/sparseness ect. ect., this project makes those projects look like walks in the park! And I know they weren't (so no disrespect) but i'm sure the American cross continenetal railway was the easiest to build by a large margin, and while Canadas cross continental railway may have been more difficult to build than the American trans-continental railway, I feel like the Trans-Siberian railway by magnitude, was harder to build than the Canadian railways compared to the American one, by many times....

[@yanikivanov]

My grandpa's brother died there building these rail so F.....russia

[@mja4wp]

human life was cheap...very cheap...everywhere....people reproduced for leisure, security and beliefs (religious or other) at great rate....everyone needed food and a purpose.....great things can happen when ambition meets opportunity and need.

[@abbeystump]

I just traveled the Tran Siberian. Amazing build history. I also spent 30 days along the BAM. 4500 Km through permafrost wilderness with a built history that will blow you away.

[@poppypollen4362]

And SIberian railroads were maintained better back then than American are right now, yeah.

[@pinethewise]

The railroad built between Moscow and my hometown Vladivostok takes over 9k km long, or 5.7k miles. And yes, despite current global circumstances, Vladivostok is still lucky regarding to its location. We're still trading with Japan, Korea, China and many other Asian countries but of course, all ships are sailing under the gray flag instead of Russian. 🤷

[@i8Hardcore]

🤫

[@FodaseNaoLigo]

What you mean gray flag

[@abbeystump]

Can a tourist get from Japan to Vladivostok by ferry?

[@i8Hardcore]

@@abbeystump In general, there were ferry flights to Otaru and Nanao, maybe something else, but now is not.

[@pinethewise]

@@abbeystump with layover in South Korea. Now we have more ferries between Vladivostok and South Korea than it was before covid.

[@Deadpoolion]

Strange presentation of the material, China after 2 opium wars with Britain did not scare anyone. Russia, with diplomatic authority, extended its borders with the Aigun Treaty of 1858 and the Beijing Treaty of 1860. In 1858, as a result of the Treaty of Aigun, the Amur region went to Russia, and in 1860, as a result of the Treaty of Beijing, Primorye went to Russia. Manchuria, after China's military defeat from Japan (1894-1895), practically became a protectorate of Russia, and therefore a Russian railway and fortresses were built there. Trans-Siberian Railway Built in 1891-1916, it was an economic project and not a military one.

[@Karim-fo8zl]

the obsession with Russia among westerns is overwhelming. i wonder what's the reason

[@crpth1]

Let's say gold, copper, iron, silver, oil, wood, gas, titanium, Uranium... A really vast etc. and generally in huge quantities. Oh! I forgot of course all for "freedom & democracy"! LOL 😂 😂

[@kindlingking]

Somehow it doesn't translate well into their knowledge about Russia.

[@davidjr4903]

Resources, land, population, production, POWER

[@tiredgod2215]

Они в нас безответно влюблены🤭

[@jussikankinen9409]

Most people who build cities in russia where from europe, most russians were and still are very uneducated

[@deadlyraddish]

Nice video. It's "Rasputitza" (Распутица), not "Rasputista" though... 😉

[@kozzyrock5939]

That could be "Rasputnitsa" (minx, wanton) or "Rasputintsa" (of a famous guy Rasputin) ^_^

[@mi4log]

Распутинца 😅

[@BusinessGamesAI]

This pissed me off so much!

[@BusinessGamesAI]

@@kozzyrock5939Ra-ra-rasputist, Russia’s greatest machinist…

[@rossengeorgiew9589]

Ах Вьи Распутинистьи!

[@vladimirmyasin906]

Not "rasputista" but "rasputitsa" Распутица in Russian. If you put in Google translate, you will hear the pronouncation for it.

[@BusinessGamesAI]

Yeah, such an easy check, this irritated me to end, too! Argh!

[@Tony-.]

Да ладно вам придираться)

[@user-hp5qi1bm2c]

@@Tony-. Ну, блин, не ыщкауфкь, и на том спасибо.

[@andrewkondrash1642]

The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway was only the first step. The next step was the construction of the Baikalo-Amur railway, which run north of the first one.

[@abbeystump]

Fun Fact did you know the BAM was the original direction of the Tran Siberian .

[@user-fj7df3ng7z]

Bald and Bankrupt had at least one video showing his trip on the BAM.

[@ad5792]

@@user-fj7df3ng7z Bald and Stupid. I wouldn't let him into Russia

[@tiagomira6232]

15:54 "its a strategic weakness to have it run through foreign territory", like.. no wayy

[@ab9840]

There was a binational agreement between San diego transit, Imperial rail of California and Baja rail of Mexico to rebuild the desert line. It would connect San Diego to Arizona via a stretch of existing rail-line running in Mexico. So far things seemed stalled. For a map do a search on desert line rail.

[@rotax636nut5]

God Bless Mother Russia..

[@jussikankinen9409]

Nature raping

[@ivanpertsev3873]

Russia sucks.

[@-Alexey-]

blessed

[@idratherhidethat6033]

Your map of Russian Empire lacks a lot of Caucasus

[@wanturballs]

they were parts of iranian teritory at the time

[@idratherhidethat6033]

@@wanturballs certainly not by 1880s

[@user-co3di5pd1c]

The author thinks that the Far East is Siberia. Against this background, the designation of the Caucasus is a trifle

[@Pavel_Kashin]

I do not agree with the conclusion about the new cities, even taking the example of Tomsk and Novosibirsk. Due to geography (rivers and such) the road was built past the local regional center, the city of Tomsk. Since this place is located at the intersection of key traffic flows, a small settlement on the Trans-Siberian railroad - Novo-Nikolaevsk with a population of 8 thousand people in 1897, began to grow rapidly. Now it is the third largest city in Russia - Novosibirsk, with a population of 1.63 million people and the population of the Novosibirsk region of 2.8 million people. Tomsk in its turn - a city with a population of 52 thousand in 1897 - has grown only to 550 thousand nowadays.

[@HindsightYT]

That would’ve been a good fact to include in the conclusion. But I don’t entirely understand what part of the conclusion you don’t agree with?

[@Pavel_Kashin]

@@HindsightYT "The railroad didn't spawn large urban centers". I would not say that this is literally incorrect, but some cities in Siberia appeared in their places solely due to the railway. (Krasnoyarsk also began to grow rapidly after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway)

[@i8Hardcore]

The government gave large benefits/subsidies to landowners who voluntarily moved to Siberia. The Dead Souls is based on this. And the railroad made moving easier.

[@Squee.1366]

@@i8Hardcore The Dead Souls based on russian colonisation of South Ukraine, not Siberia.

[@tomgreene7942]

I was in Tomsk for 2 months back in 1991. They told me it had 800,000 people back then, and Novosibirsk had 2 million. So I'm surprised by your numbers. But then, about 6 months afterwards, there was a nuclear incident in Tomsk 7, so perhaps people "left"? Hopefully the friends I made there and Eugene, the great pianist KGB agent, survived ok. - FV#36.

[@marko1263]

Puts into perspective just how lucky the U.S. is. Almost as much natural resources as Russia, but in a more compact territory with far better climate and river systems which make logistics comparatively easy.

[@spavlvsapst]

It's not luck, it's that the US has conquered and forcibly annexed those territories (just like Russia). In any case, global warming benefits Russia in the long term, which will see a large part of its territory become arable and easily habitable land.

[@slava-ochkldailavrussiy7480]

@@spavlvsapst "Russian troops are followed by builders, and NATO troops are followed by punishers" "За русскими войсками идут строители, а за НАТОвскими - каратели"

[@Lotterywinnerify]

@@spavlvsapst Its still luck. One has to be connected to such quality territory to conquer it. What the

[@CarlosSilva-td3nn]

Excellent video, a true history lesson presented flawlessly. Many thanks from Brazil.🙏

[@paulbuck90]

It's beyond me, I loved being in Russia, the ppl were great

[@Shad0w1x16]

I drove couple times via Habarovsk Bridge. It's still same Bridge. True miracle!

[@BailelaVida]

Very good video. Very well produced and executed. Interesting and entertaining. Thanks!

[@jennijenjenjen]

Excellent doco! Thanks. I hope the best for you. If you do more railroad stuff then I ask you to look at New Zealand railways. I cycled there recently I felt it would be a totally overlooked area if history that deserves bringing to light. Beautiful nation, beautiful people.

[@user-rs2ed4yy5n]

Greetings to all from beautiful Siberia! Krasnoyarsk :)

[@popthatbeep]

A bit surprised at the fact Russia use prisoners for the rail road construction and actually paid them.

[@imcbocian]

On paper. In reality most of the money was stolen by officials, and what did reach the prisoners was entirely spent on food and other basic needs that the "empire" was unable to provide. This route was built and developed on the bones of hundreds of thousands of human lives. Stalin generously continued this tradition.

[@user-sz3rd5qk9l]

@@imcbocian , it's grim how you pick stuff out of context. =( In that area where Russia was bringing the communication it was quite more harsh conditions, and building that Russian road was a better deal on average for that place and time. Jugasvili (aka Stalin) did something horrible for his time, easily securing his place in top world villains of the time. Goolag is a crime against Russians which is still quite underrepresented globally.

[@ad5792]

Good use of prisoners!

[@user-sz3rd5qk9l]

@@ad5792 , a good opportunity for them if it was today... Though I don't quite remember if Dostoevsky described they were allowed to reject/dodge the work even that time.

[@ad5792]

@@user-sz3rd5qk9l why would anybody care if criminals want to reject/dodge? Why not get some benefit for society?

[@IvosevicJ]

Siberia is not that big. It ends at Lake Baikal. Anything east of that is the Far east.

[@VisiblyJacked]

it's an arguable thing. "Technically" you are right and no doubt it says this in Russian textbooks. But in general usage all Russian territory east of the Urals is known as Siberia.

[@IvosevicJ]

@@VisiblyJacked considering said territory is part of Russia, I defer to them on what they call each part.

[@VisiblyJacked]

@@IvosevicJ the Wikipedia article on Siberia gives a good breakdown. Plenty of regions in the world have unclear boundaries, unofficial vs unofficial boundaries, etc.

[@mrishka5]

Нет, Сибирь продолжается за Байкалом.

[@HelkOrso]

Если смотреть по федеральным округам, то да. Но Якутию, Бурятию и Забайкальский край в ДВФО перевели чтобы включить их в программы поддержки Дальнего Востока. А физико-географически Сибирь продолжается до водораздельных хребтов Тихого Океана, т.е. примерно по границам прибрежных областей

[@vatnikxxi7717]

Bullshit about people allegedly considering themselves subjects of the Chinese Emperor. 😂

[@Alex626_]

indeed

[@Max_Jacoby]

Вы разве не слышали про сибирскую терракотовую армию? 😁

[@MrMexikin]

As an american we love our russian brothers and sisters.

[@tadasdovii8262]

As person who is from national minorities and know what is russian love not from TV. I could say that if russians are brothers to you - you are dog.

[@paulcowderoy6403]

Excellent and informative video on a very interesting part of the world. Thank you

[@lilyrose4191]

Such an interesting video! Thank you. Commented. Liked. Subscribed. 🙂

[@nofearofwater]

Russia has a very interesting history and Siberia is a very intriguing space, to say the least. Good video.

[@Bluefalcon6154]

Great video bro love to content keep it up

[@Noblepilot_abrahamvwi_aeroplan]

Beautiful video. Well done!

[@gtbkts]

Thanks for the awesome content and all the great videos!!

[@Mrbobinge]

A common quiz question for UK Navy ships' crew during 1960's: "Name the main stations along Trans Siberian Railway". Ordinary sailors could rattle them off in no time.

[@evgenyvarganov1892]

That's funny, why should they have known them?

[@Mrbobinge]

@@evgenyvarganov1892 Funny yes. It soon became clear why. Nightly quiz questions on long voyages got shuffled/recycled. So we soon got practiced in the answers. Library/Internet on warships wasn't a big thing during the 60's.

[@evgenyvarganov1892]

@@Mrbobinge no, I mean why should British sailors know Trans-Siberian rail stations? I would understand something like "major USSR ports/coastline cities", but railway is inland. Especially TransSib, which is decidedly inland :)

[@Mrbobinge]

@@evgenyvarganov1892 Because trivia. Each winning team contrived next evenings' most obscure questions. Maybe we had a hidden KGB operative aboard.

[@evgenyvarganov1892]

@@Mrbobinge hehe, possibly :)

[@albatross8361]

Good video, very interesting !

[@kevin7151]

excellent and very informative video. thanks for sharing

[@ntuAaq]

Thank you. Very clear and not using too much fancy word which make non English speaker understand easily

[@guus5504]

Thinks this guy is also originally Dutch.

[@markod7662]

In 1970 ussr built BAM - the baikal - amur railway, also a challenging and interesting construction.

[@aminaragin]

Great narration of History. Thanks 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@kern77]

I just found your channel. Great stuff, subscribed.

[@andreypolyanskiy6843]

Author forgot to mention that after Revolution, when czar was killed Russian Empire were changed into USSR, where everyone was building communism and it’s not correct to compare % of the wage, when there is no private property. For example, workers get paid 40% less, but there were no taxes, free healthcare and education, etc

[@melinsau]

And thousands of death in concentration camps in Siberia, and millions of death from genocide…

[@user-fj7df3ng7z]

A lot of workers didn't get paid at all and the number worked to death was staggering. That's because a lot of the work was done by prisoners in the Gulag, including the Road of Bones, which was built over the bones of a great many men who died building it. There was also the White Sea Canal, built by Gulag labour at great speed by prisoners with little more than picks and shovels. A quarter million men died building that canal, which turned out to be too shallow for the military purpose that Stalin intended for it. There were many other comparable examples.

[@r0mi44]

@@user-fj7df3ng7z What is GULAG? Stop passing off the lies of Solzhenitsyn and the CIA as the truth. 😆

[@1KOLYANOS1]

@user-fj7df3ng7z Why do you spread lies? For example - White Sea Canal, you say quarter milion died, while officialy there were only 126k workers throughout all it's construction, and it's according to western sources, and from this workers only 12k died according to soviets, and 25k according to American-polish journalist Applebaum who is politically charged against USSR, but that's not the point. The point is it was built during 1931-1933 when Famine was raging throughout all USSR, at this time so called "Holodomor" happened. There were not enoguh food supplied. And with what you suggest digging canal, other than picks and shovels? It's 1930 there's no widespread excavation machines in Russia, and who'll give this expensive machinery to prison convicts? Also you imply this camp was only "work untill death" While 12484 prisoners were freed, and 59516 got their prison terms shortened after working there. It was a labour camp with penal labour, it's not Aushwitz or other concentration camps where nazis did kill prisoners in mass murders on purpouse. Same by nature was and exists right now in United States, search for "Penal labor in the United States" But no it was the Soviets who were evil, becasue their penal labour was bad, and there were no vile criminals in gulag, but only saints who were wrongfuly sentenced. (Not denying that there were people who were wrongly sentenced, but it wasn't most of the prisoners)

[@user-co3di5pd1c]

@@melinsau do you mean the mortality rate in the concentration camps, which was always lower than the mortality rate outside the concentration camps?

[@notmenotme614]

I couldn’t imagine doing a train journey where it’s uncertain if you’ll even make it to your destination without being in a train wreck.

[@sagithebrave6475]

Amazing Video👍

[@paulmicks7097]

Nice video on topic.

[@j.k.1239]

High quality content.

[@jeanssold2131]

Thanks for the video! But I have to disagree about the part where you say it didnt spawn any large urban centers: its largely because of it that Siberia has 3 cities with more than a million people (Omsk, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk) and 5 cities with more than 500 thousand people. Sustaining urban centers like these would be impossible without a railroad

[@savagepete1983]

Great video, comrade!!

[@kaushikvsmaniyan]

Great video. 👍

[@TheSanych]

What is amazing, the same strategic considerations are valid even today. At Soviet era Russia build Baikalo-Amur railway in parallel to Transsiberian railway, and right now Russia invest a lot in further expansion and improvement of these railroads.

[@vladimirnikolskiy]

My great-grandfather was an engineer and participated in the construction of the railway connecting Siberia with Turkestan (Turksib). Interestingly, back in 1907, when the first work on the implementation of Turksib took place, some Western experts were surprised by such an idea from Moscow. After all, according to their calculations, the Asian provinces mainly benefited from the road, and the center, as they believed, did not have any special benefits from this project.

[@truthseeker000000]

I really enjoy your excellent, high quality videos that present the facts, historical or otherwise; all free of any political bias or hidden agenda. So much to learn from your videos. Keep u the great work.

[@Demun1649]

Do you really mean this? "your excellent, high quality videos that RESENT the facts, historical or otherwise;"?? Or did you mean REPRESENT?

[@truthseeker000000]

@@Demun1649 I meant "present: the facts... Typo error. Thank you for pointing it out. I've added the missing "P'

[@Demun1649]

@@truthseeker000000😜😜 Just an ex-English Language teacher.

[@JoeSmith-vs5sy]

Good production!

[@user-tm5iw9rh4l]

This video is very interesting and informative. Thank you!

[@Kzerty]

For unknown reason, I saw just the map all "video" long but it was still interesting. 3 great transcontinental achievements to bypass British naval hegemony : USA, BBB and Imperial Russian + little but extensive Freycinet Plan in France to match German railways. The century of steel (railways, dreadnoughts, canons). How is the planet still not exhausted ? 😊

[@Agalofix]

5:25 It is hard to get through 'raspútitsa' even verbally.

[@kmilton1593]

Thank you for such historical film footage; very interesting; would love to see more on old Russian history.

[@VictorZucchini]

It’s not ‘Rasputista”. It’s “Rasputitsa” as in “Распутица”. You pronounce letter “Ц” as “TS”. So, there, you can also learn something today 😅

[@user-fi9eg1xx5b]

Yes indeed

[@nemiloszorka1162]

That makes much more sense. Like "пут" is in "распад" 😊

[@luckycoroner]

Rasp'utiTSa.

[@HindsightYT]

You're right. That was a sloppy mistake.

[@RustedCroaker]

No need for apostrophe. Russian isn't Klingon. Raspootitsa

[@luckycoroner]

Pooteen then?

[@RustedCroaker]

@@luckycoroner Unlike in English or Chinese, in Russian there's no difference between a long or short vowel. So pooteen or putin, sheet or shit would be exactly the same word in Russian in any case. That's why many Russians have troubles to distinguish the last pair of words in my example. Which leads to awkward situations sometimes.

[@rezawaheed8879]

@@luckycoroner yum chips with cheese and gravy. lovely

[@user-ib2zv5ol7k]

Great video and great story!

[@boenemoen]

Hey goeie video interessant onderwerp gaaf hoor 👌

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Canada was largely independent of British rule when the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway was built.

[@geoms6263]

Canada is a British colony

[@Erhogz]

Canada was at least officially the British colony until 1931

[@heronimousbrapson863]

@@Erhogz Canada had its own parliament, Prime Minister and MP's starting in 1867.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

@@geoms6263 It is a commonwealth nation, but no longer a colony.

[@i8Hardcore]

Canada is a constitutional monarchy where the monarch is head of state. In practice, executive authority is entrusted to the Cabinet, a committee of ministers of the Crown chaired by the Prime Minister of Canada that act as the executive committee of the King's Privy Council for Canada and are responsible to the democratically elected House of Commons. The Canadian government may be dissolved at the direction of London 🤷

[@alanlenarcic8669]

"The Americans had just purchased Louisiana and now they were building a transcontinental railroad". To an American there is a bit of "yada yada" between those two premises.

[@Salabar_]

'Railroads good", in essence.

[@retineyzer1670]

@@Salabar_ I mean, they are.

[@nofearofwater]

Are you saying it didn’t go into much depth on American history? It’s a video focused on Russia

[@mikeyrose4183]

Stop calling yourselves AMERICANS!

[@drmodestoesq]

I know. He had the British building the transcontinental Canadian railway when Canada was already an independent nation.

[@georgessfeir5544]

great video

[@Hirugva007]

Стоило все же подробнее описать масштабные работы, проведенные при советском союзе, а именно строительство Б.А.М. - Байкало-Амурской магистрали и т.д. А также упомянуть тот титанический фронт работ, который проводится прямо сейчас - расширение этой магистрали, что приведет к значительному росту пропускной способности (уже привело, т.к. часть участков готовы). Еще отдельный интерес - автомобильная трасса, идущая "параллельно", которая стала единой совсем недавно, раньше были участки с совершенно ужасной дорогой.

[@gaziragazira5280]

you can easily Trevel now by TrusSibirian express from Moscow to Vladivostok ! it takes only 7 days and a lot of fun!

[@davidcunningham2074]

very well researched

[@reueljacques]

I love being taken back in history, just love it, I can actually transport myself there!!! Amazing documentary!!!

[@johnq8792]

Who annexed Hawaii? It wasn't Russia.

[@HindsightYT]

Ha! There’s an interesting story there. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but check out russian history of Hawaii before you make up your mind. ;)

[@Tony-.]

@@HindsightYT It's funny how much I learn about my country's history from an English-speaking channel. ty)

[@SpbNova]

@@HindsightYT а нехер было наши корабли в карибском море грабить, тогда бы и крепость не понадобилась! лишь бы русский след найти и очернить. вспомни лучше благодаря кому север гражданскую войну выиграл. так бы англия и франция поддержали конфедератов и никакой отмены рабства бы не было.

[@user-hp5qi1bm2c]

@@SpbNova Была бы отмена, сразу после победы Конфедератов. Не за рабство воевали, а за степень автономности.

[@angloedu5499]

Thank you for this interesting documentary, I only found it by chance. Never really had interest in this region until now.

[@medukameguka948]

3:20 Bro, almost all the rivers in the Siberia are fed by melting glaciers in the mountains on the south. The Arctic has nothing to do with that.

[@eifnjdoeoehdbdj]

It is "rasputitsa", not "rasputista"

[@countingfloats]

A superb video

[@Natella3312]

Thank you for this history lesson! Well represented in short glance.

[@wonderfullife3567]

Season of bad/muddy roads called rasputiTSa! Not rasputista😂

[@js70371]

*SLAVA ROSSIYA FROM CANADA* !!! 🇷🇺#Z🇷🇺🙏🇨🇦🍻

[@Tony-.]

Please don't. We are not fascists to use such propaganda. Только националисты используют такой слоган, а буква "Z" это символика милитаристов. "Лишь бы не было войны" - Never again. This is what the Soviet people glorified after the terrible war. Nationalism was out of the question.

[@phantom_9914]

​@@Tony-.Ахахахха мы не фашисты , но у нас римское право... Прими истину, хватит уже носить либеральные очки. Просто обрати внимание на фасции ФСИН и пойми, что человек и гражданин это как плебей и патриции .

[@Tony-.]

@@phantom_9914 по себе людей не судят. По факту у нас утечка мозгов нарастает, видимо "очкарики" не хотят жить по такой логике, а те кто остается не способны в конкурентную экономику.

[@SuperSkibidiShrek]

@@Tony-.Только либералки агрятся на символ Z, это не связано ни с каким нацизмом, сними очки

[@georgy.design]

​@@SuperSkibidiShrekсколько же пропагандонов и кремлеботов в комментариях, пиздец.

[@bruseli258]

9:10 In a metallurgical country where there are tons of metal deposits, hundreds of villages and towns have the word "metal" in their names. Do they order metal products in other countries and bring them across tens of thousands of kilometers to Siberia? I don't think it's true. Maybe rivets or some other smaller items, you can still believe it. But can you imagine if it's a big, long, heavy railroad track to a metallurgical country? It's more like a fairy tale. At the same time the Statue of Liberty in the USA and the Eiffel Tower in Paris were built of Russian metal, which is a well-known fact. If they had so much metal that they even exported it to the Russian Empire, why did they use our metal for their own purposes? Maybe it was the low quality of metal in the U.S. and the well-established production and high quality of metal in the Russian Empire?

[@sachareus3329]

Super interesting

[@astor_333]

Интересно, как Китай мог атаковать во время "распутица". Кто то насмотрелся китайских фильмов в жанре "уся" и думает, что китайцы могут летать? 5:59 слово логика автору ролика незнакомо. Александр Третий неожиданно скончался.. в результате теракта 9:30. Китайские рабочие получали только 60% от того, что получали другие рабочие. 11:35 скромно умолчал, что при строительстве дорог в Америке китайские рабочие получали 30% от зарплаты "белого" человека. Сход составов с рельс 13:30 в одной стране в 2022 г. произошло 471 сход железнодорожного состава. Это прогресс товарищи, показатели чуть лучше, чем в Российской империи, начала 20 века. 18:00 в 1945 через БАМ за 20 дней перебросили более 400 000 солдат с западного фронта, что привело к победе в Манчжурской операции или по вашему "Августовская буря" и капитуляции Японии.

[@collie8]

darling it's Rasputitsa, not Rasputista

[@danvanzyl8412]

Darling you are clever😂😂😂😂

[@collie8]

@@danvanzyl8412 ok dalring 😂😂

[@halamish1]

Very interesting

[@NNogiRu]

Thanks. Hello from Volga❤

[@Napastak69Kapikyan]

Russia always bad and poor? Lol, you clowns

[@exodus1900]

Не распутиста, а распутица not rasputiSTa, but rasputiCa or rasputiTSa) Thank you for the video, hello from Russia! I am russian muslim from Ingushetia which is on south of Russia

[@richardb4787]

I had been wondering about that.

[@afischer8327]

Look into the use of the Trans-Siberian Railway by the Czech Legion during WWI, if you have not done so already. Many thanks for posting this video. The achievement was almost beyond belief, despite many setbacks.

[@aakashiit9245]

Russia is Unstoppable

[@audience2]

Ukraine 🇺🇦 enters the chat

[@SLAIDER124]

@@audience2 Дождись конца лета - начало-середина осени.😉

[@HigherMorality]

@@audience2 To beg?

[@marcboblee1863]

Russia is a Christian nation with conservative values that the Russians live out. What's not to admire and respect......

[@kaliko4036]

Move there Commie.

[@abbeystump]

That’s what makes them different to every other European Country.

[@kaliko4036]

Move there

[@Mortablunt]

Russia is a multi faith, multicultural country. Putin said it yesterday, when addressing nationalistic and anti Muslim sentiment. Where Russia gets it right and other European countries get it wrong is Russia holds everyone to standards instead of pushing a minority victim hood complex. 25% of the country is Muslim and 5% is Buddhist.

[@svetkaoekrainka9187]

Russia is a barbaric empire stuck in the past.

[@HannesSchwarzberger]

1982 I traveled from Kiev to Vienna (they had to change the axels of wheels because different distance) but it was part of the trans-sibiric

[@lainfonet]

Resource curse: The vast resources of Siberia, coupled with its cold climate and scattered population settlements, make the cost of development in Siberia extremely high, turning Russia into a country that sells its resources.

[@lukdhguirg7121]

Советская неэффективность иногда поражает. Бам и транссиб были построены примерно за одинаковое время. Только транссиб в 2 раза длиннее, и на нём было задействовано в двое меньше рабочих. И строили транссиб кирками и лопатами, а бам 70 лет спустя экскаваторами и кранами. БАМлаг организован в 1932 году приказом ОГПУ № 1020/с от 10.11.1932 и в оперативном управлении подчинялся непосредственно ГУЛАГ НКВД. Целью создания была реализация секретного постановления СНК СССР № 1650/340с от 27.10.1932 «О строительстве Байкало-Амурской магистрали» (БАМ).

[@user-oihpmu]

Ну так и качество постройки и пропускная способность БАМа запланирована изначально на порядок выше, строили с расчетом на безотказность

[@lukdhguirg7121]

@@user-oihpmu это не так. Если учитывать что до 1916 года траннсиб стал двухколейный, что вполне сопоставимо с БАМом, то его строили 25 лет. Если посчитать сколько строили БАМ в общей сложности то выйдет примерно столько же. Но он в 2 раза короче Транссиба, и было задействовано вдвое больше рабочих.

[@user-oihpmu]

@@lukdhguirg7121 Так по факту строилось множество ответвлений от БАМа, развитие региональных сетей (чего только Абакан-Тайшет стоит) и к тому же гораздо больше осужденных привлечено было

[@lukdhguirg7121]

@@user-oihpmu я ответвления тоже учитывал. Без них ещё короче.

[@user-co3di5pd1c]

Почему твои советские предки так плохо строили?

[@SmallGuyonTop]

18:00 You make it sound so glorious, but it was also used to exile Ukrainians to gulags.

[@Vlashr]

Most of them move here freely during Empire time, they call it Green Ukraine.

[@user-hp5qi1bm2c]

Ask those ukrainians if they are ukrainians(tm) or simply russians.

[@itzzaland7844]

2 minutes and 15 seconds in and I have already heard "purchased louisiana" while saying "conquered siberia" you're very biased lol