Telegraph availability in Russia around year 1875
score:14
Yes, it was possible to send a telegraph message from Moscow or St Petersburg to Tomsk in 1875. Tomsk was connected in 1863, Irkutsk in 1864 and Omsk in or before 1866.
"Map Showing the Telegraph Lines In Operation, Under Contract, and Contemplated to Complete the Circuit of the Globe, 1869". Source: HH Lloyd & Co Publishers [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
If you click on the map above, you can just read that the red lines show "Lines Constructed and in Operation".
According to the Ericsson website article The triumph of the telegraph,
A Danish telegraph company combined a trans-Siberian telegraph line from St Petersburg to Vladivostock with an underwater cable to China and Japan. This long connection was completed in 1871.
As noted by Henry in his comment below, there was also a line from Moscow to Sevastopol and Odessa. This was completed in 1855, and in 1863
The Moscow–Tbilisi (Georgia) telegraph line, 2000 km, crossing the Caucasus was established.
Baku (Azerbaijan) was connected in 1868 and in 1877 Russia was second only to the US in kilometres of lines.
![HH Lloyd & Co Publishers [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Showing_the_Telegraph_Lines_In_Operation,_Under_Contract,_and_Contemplated_to_Complete_the_Circuit_of_the_Globe,_1869.jpg){kind=link}
More post
- 📝 Have map projections and distortions ever affected treaties?
- 📝 Why did the recorded history of Poland start after the reign of Miezsko I?
- 📝 Was the unemployment rate in the Nazi regime lower than the Weimar Republic?
- 📝 Why is Europe so cluttered with countries?
- 📝 Do we have any authentic Native American flute music from the 18th century or earlier?
- 📝 War Guilt Methodology: Was Germany solely to blame for WWI?
- 📝 The Goths and The Roman Empire (Alaric)
- 📝 Is Wikipedia's identification of Lebed an error?
- 📝 Why was George Washington called Chief Magistrate?
- 📝 Were Tories "Catholics" and "Whigs" Anglican?
- 📝 What happened to Frederick II's library?
- 📝 Is there a majority viewpoint for the fall of the ancient Egyptian civilization?
- 📝 When & where were three masted ships invented?
- 📝 Which one is ancient Hinduisam or Dravidiasm
- 📝 Is that true that somebody was punished by the Catholic Church for believing that a fly had six feet?
- 📝 How did an advancing force walk during WW1?
- 📝 How old is the day of 24 equal hours?
- 📝 Spanish Influence on the Netherlands and Belgium?
- 📝 Open database with brutalist architecture?
- 📝 Why didn't the Roman maniple make a comeback in the Renaissance?
- 📝 An Austrian Emperor who thought taking his own sweet time about rewarding his underlings was the best way to inspire respect?
- 📝 Does the phrase "The empire on which the sun never sets" predate knowledge that the world is round?
- 📝 How did the Nazis justify the differences in the way they treated Jews v. POWs?
- 📝 Is there a basis for this tale of Eisenhower blessing & Patton's curse?
- 📝 Which countries (or comparable geographical units) have a lower population now than they used to at some point in history before 1950?
- 📝 Did a letter of marque give actual protection in the middle ages?
- 📝 What are some examples of clauses against unifications in peace treaties?
- 📝 Was there a town called Munich in Jackson County, Tennessee?
- 📝 What exactly is the US national anthem?
- 📝 How did people realize that America was a different continent?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Telegraph availability in Russia around year 1875
- 📝 What were the demographics and economics of South-East Asian islands around year 1400?
- 📝 How educated were the Orthodox priests of Imperial Russia around 1800?
- 📝 Which ship sank and made the news for its chaotic evacuation around the year 1912?
- 📝 How many people lived in a medium sized European villiage around the year 800?
- 📝 How did 300,000 people survive the 3 1/2 year siege of Sarajevo?
- 📝 Why did Britain not purchase Alaska when Russia had it up for sale?
- 📝 Did cows in Medieval times have calves in spring or all year round?
- 📝 Which year in history had the highest ratio of non-natural deaths?
- 📝 Did the Germans purposefully arrange to send Lenin to Russia to start a revolution?
- 📝 How do I find the sources which determined the year of the fall of Babylon?
- 📝 Was Japan known to be a potential threat to the USA in the 10 year period prior to 1941
- 📝 Why did Peter the Great name Saint Petersburg, Russia with a foreign styled name?
- 📝 Why hasn't Russia maintained significant numbers of aircraft carriers?
- 📝 What was the size of surface of a cereal crop needed per man per year during the Dark Ages in Western Europe?
- 📝 What does Russia want in Chechnya?
- 📝 Why does Japan celebrate the Gregorian New Year but China still celebrates Chinese New Year?
- 📝 Does a year 1900 meeting in a Masonic Hall imply that it was a meeting of Freemasons?
- 📝 What was it like for a coastal village to experience a Viking raid in around the tenth century?
- 📝 Were British fears of Russia using Afghanistan as a staging post for an invasion of India unfounded?
- 📝 Was Russia the only country in WWII that succeeded in expansionist war aims?
- 📝 Why does the amount of days in an year on average of the Gregorian calendar only have 4 decimal places (365.2425)?
- 📝 How was Napoleon's invasion of Russia supplied?
- 📝 What was the estimated population living in Egypt around 1446 BC?
- 📝 Why was the last battle of the War of 1812 fought fully half a year after the official end of the war?
- 📝 Is Caesar's birth year more certain now than it was when disputed by Mommsen?
- 📝 Did Native Americans sabotage telegraph lines running through their territory?
- 📝 Did Japan ever pay Russia war reparations after WW2? Why or why not?
- 📝 Is the steel pan the only acoustic musical instrument to be invented in the 20th century and used widely around the world?
- 📝 Three rings (wreaths?) symbol in XIX century Russia