Trans-Siberian Railway one side of the lake to the other until the completion of the Lake Baikal spur along the southern edge of the lake. With the Amur River Line north of the Chinese border being completed in 1916, there was a continuous railway from Petrograd to Vladivostok that remains to this day the world's longest railway line. Electrification of the line, begun in 1929 and completed in 2002, allowed a doubling of train weights to 6,000 tonnes. There were expectations upon electrification that it would increase rail traffic on the line by 40 percent. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed
Jubilee Medal "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway" the relief inscription "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway" (). The reverse center bears the relief inscription "1901 2001" with the image of a crossed hammer and wrench. The medal is suspended by a ring through the award's suspension loop to a standard Russian pentagonal mount covered with an overlapping 24mm wide silk moiré ribbon with three equal 8mm wide stripes of green, black and silver. The individuals listed below were awarded the current Russian Federation Jubilee Medal "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway": Jubilee Medal "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway" The Jubilee Medal "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian