125 years ago, on May 19 (31), 1891, the official laying of the Trans-Siberian Railway took place in the town of Kuperovskaya Pad near Vladivostok. Tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Nicholas II, personally drove a wheelbarrow of earth to the roadbed. In fact, construction began as early as March 1891, when the construction of the Miass-Chelyabinsk section began. According to preliminary calculations, the cost of building the railway was to be 350 million rubles in gold.