Word: omsk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objectives after Moscow, were Omsk, Tomsk, and Urga and then across Mongolia to Kilgan and Peking...
...Omsk, capital of Omsk Province in West Siberia, an anti-Bolshevik outbreak occurred. About 300 Bolsheviki were arrested, some were shot without trial. A group of 22 Bolsheviki were hemmed in a house, burned alive...
...American Asiatic Association, Julian Arnold, Commercial Attache of the United States to Peking, advocated the construction of this connecting link between America and Asia,--a step which would make possible a railroad from Chicago to Peking, and eventually from New York to Paris and Berlin, via Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family, which is fabled to have crossed Bering Strait on ice to avoid the discomforts of shipboard, could have accomplished...