railways

Question 1

the state continued to buy out smaller private railway companies. extending lines, so that by 1905 Russia had how many km of railways?what percentage state-owned?

Answer 1

59,616 km of railways
66% state-owned

Question 2

railways positives

Answer 2

-helped open up the russia interior and allowed more extensive exploitation of Russia’s raw materials

Question 3

railways also linked grain-growing areas to?

Answer 3

the black-sea ports, so reinforcing the export drive

Question 4

where did the size of Russia’s railway stand worldwide by 1913?

Answer 4

second largest

Question 5

building of the railway lines was a stimulus to?

Answer 5

the development of the iron and coal indstries

Question 6

transport costs fell which?

Answer 6

brought down the price of goods

Question 7

the most acclaimed development was?

Answer 7

the impressive construction of the trans-siberian railway line which crossed Russia from West to East

Question 8

the trans-siberian railway

Answer 8

between 1891 and 1902 Witte instigated the construction of a railway linking central European Russia and Moscow with the Pacific Ocean
-distance of 7000km

Question 9

how did the trans-siberian railway bring economic benefits?

Answer 9

both through its construction and by opening up western Siberia for emigration and farming
-also had strategic benefits but promised more than it delivered