RAILWAY ISSUE OF CENTRAL ASIA AND MINOR ASIA
[For the summary of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English text is after Russian version)].The material for the article is reproduced from the journal Railway Affairs of 1900 from the collection of the Scientific and technical library of MIIT University. Our Journal expresses sincere gratitude to the staff of the Library for their kind cooperation in preparing of the article. ABSTRACT The article that follows is reproduced from the journal Railway Affairs of 1900. The unknown author of the article written in the period of intensive construction of railways in Central Asia desired to show the prehistory of the topic and made a review of a work «Asien: seine Zukunftsbahnen und Kohlenschatze» written by Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter (April 30, 1829 - July 18, 1884), a prominent German geologist and published in Wien in 1876, concerning the issues of construction of railways in the regions of Central Asia and Asia Minor. KEY WORDS: history, railways, Central Asia, F. von Hochstetter. REFERENCES 1. Railway Affairs [Zheleznodorozhnoe delo], 1900, Iss.13, pp.137-138. 2. Hochstetter, F. V. Asien, seine Zukunftsbahnen und seine Kohlenschatze: Eine geographische Studie: mit 1 Karte / von Ferdinand von Hochstetter, F. V. Hochstetter. -:Alfred Holder K. K. Hof- und Universitats-Buchhandler, 1876. - Lang: ger.