Scheme Of The Russian Government
The Russian government contemplates buying up the railways in the southwest of Russia, aniounting altogether to abont 8, 000 miles. The qneetion of constructing a railway to the Polar and White seas is to be considered by a special commission. The soheme of constructing a line across Finland from Uleaborg to Moorman coast, on the Arctio ocean, seems to have been abandoued. It is proposed, however, to construct a railway connecting St. Petersburg with Kemi, on the extreme north of the gulf of Bothnia, via Ladeinoe Polje and Petrozavodsk, a distance of some 600 miles. This might be afterward extended to one of the open harbors on the Moorman coast, which would furnish Russian warships with a uaval station. Another scheme is for a line from St. Petersburg to Vologda to place the capital in more direct connection with the Transsiberia railway and to develop the resources of the northeru
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