Mount Merapi smoke up to 2,000 meters high, one of its first major phreatic eruptions after the 2010 eruption. Researchers said that this eruption occurred due to combined effect of hot volcanic gases and abundant rainfall. The last eruption was so far May 11, 2018 The name "Merapi" could be loosely translated as the Mountain of Fire. The etymology of the name came from "Meru-Api"; from the Javanese combined words; "Meru" means "mountain", refer to mythical mountain of Gods in Hinduism, and "api" means "fire". Merapi is the youngest in a group of volcanoes in southern Java. It is situated at a
Circum-Baikal Railway Trans-Siberian railway on either side of Baikal was linked, and began to be used to transport goods and passengers. The Circum-Baikal was called the "golden buckle on the steel belt of Russia". Initially, only one track was built; from 1911 to 1914 the construction of a second track was undertaken, which increased capacity of the Circum-Baikal to 48 pairs of trains a day. In this stage of the construction of bridges and other engineering structures reinforced concrete was introduced as a new material. As part of these works, considerable attention was paid to the construction of stations and station towns.