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Photograph from Horace Brodzky 



WAITING FOR THE FERRY AT IRKUTSK 



Irkutsk is situated on the Angara River, 2,000 miles west of Vladivostok and 44 miles 

 from Lake Baikal. It is one of the important cities on the Transsiberian Railway and was 

 founded in 1652. 



Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams 



THE BRIDGE OVER THE SUNGARI AT HARBIX 



In the days of the old regime, armed guards were stationed at each end of this bridge 

 and small boats lay in the stream above and below it with orders to shoot on sight or sound, 

 after sunset, as the breaking of this bridge would have separated Vladivostok from Petro- 

 grad. Many ignorant Chinese boatmen were shot by the guards when they unwittingly 

 floated down with the current and came too near the structure. 



