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'Military Report on Russian Turkistan or Central Asia' [76v] (159/168)
The record is made up of 1 volume (80 folios). It was created in 1905. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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142
Appendix F. — continued .
ORENBURG—TASHKEND RAILWAY.
Turmstan to Orenburg.
Prom
Orenburg.
Stations, &c.
Versts.
Miles.
1614
1003}
Turkistax
Chornak
Saurau
Ak-Kum
Yani-Kurghan
1394
920
Tiumen-Arik -
1367
902}
Skobelev -
Prom
Tashkend.
Remarks.
Yersts.
Miles.
248
164}
730 feet above M.S.L. and 750 feet
below the level of Tashkend.
—
—
'I
Line runs parallel to the post
road.
-
-
>
368
243
562 feet above M.S.L.
395
260}
538 feet above M.S.L. A recently
formed Russian colony.
1343 886J JULEK -
j TurTugni
i Solo-Tapa
Ber-Kazan
1216 826
1108 I 731i
PerovsK
Kara-Uziak
Tercn-I T ziak •
Ak-Su -
Kara-Ketken
Kizil Tara
Karmakchi -
Khor Khut
Diuraien Tapa
Tiuratan -
Ak-Suat -
419
276i
525 foot above M.S.L.
| The line follows the post road.
J. At Ber-Kazan it runs between
| the Syr Daria and lakes.
516 340i
461 feet above M.S.L.
^ The line follows the course of
| the Syr Daria; whereas the
post road makes a detour to
! the eastward in order to avoid
lakes and marshy ground.
Two bridges, each of two
spans and 420 feet long, near
Kara-Uziak.
654
431}
Between Karmakchi and Kaza-
linsk the line follows the route
of the post road along the
right bank of the Syr Daria.
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A confidential report on Central Asia, compiled by Captain H H Dowding, Captain of the General Staff, War Office, 1905.
Contained within the report are chapters on the history, geography, administration, communications, resources, ethnography, and military of the region. Also included is a preface by Major-General J M Grierson, General Staff, War Office (folio 3), appendices (folios 63-78), including detailed information on the railways of the region, and a colour map of Central Asia (folio 81).
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- 1 volume (80 folios)
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The volume contains a table of contents (folios 4-6) which refers to the original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 81; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The file has one foliation anomaly, f 34a.
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- 'Military Report on Russian Turkistan or Central Asia'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:34v, 34ar:34av, 35r:79v, back-i, 81r:81v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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