A. H. Bumstead, Cartographer 



A MAP OE THE MURMAN COAST AND THE TERRITORY THROUGH WHICH RUNS THE 



NEW MURMAN RAILWAY 



The Murman Railway was the artery which supplied with food, clothing, and munitions the 

 American and Allied forces in Northern Russia during the winter months. 



journey from the United States to Petro- 

 grad is 5,000 miles shorter by way of 

 Halifax and the Murman ice- free port 

 of Murmansk than by way of Seattle to 

 Vladivostok and thence westward on the 

 Trans-Siberian Railway. 



All during the past winter months 

 5,000 American troops, cooperating with 

 12,000 British, 2,700 French, 1,500 Si- 

 berians, and 1,400 Italians, received a 

 constant flow of supplies of food, cloth- 

 ing, and munitions through Murmansk, 



which did not come into existence until 

 1916. 



Murmansk is the northern terminus of 

 the Murman Railway, a single-track line 

 which connects the ice-free port with 

 Petrograd by way of Kandalaksha, Kem, 

 Petrozavodsk, and Zvanda, 660 of the 

 900 miles of the line having been con- 

 structed since 1914 in the face of some 

 of the greatest obstacles ever encoun- 

 tered in civil engineering. 



War work on the Murman Railway 



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