Place · 50.35° N · 106.45° E
Kiakhta
Today KyakhtaХиагт
Two travelers wrote about Kiakhta between 1902 and 1921. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1902
Journeys in Mongolia
The Russian frontier town on the Siberian border, the northern terminus of the old tea-caravan road across the Gobi to Kalgan, and the gateway by which Russian missions reached Mongolia.
…the Gobi by one or other of the caravan routes from Kiakhta to Kalgan, and during the last forty years there has been a continuous if slender trickle…Listen from here · chapter 2, 0:21My return journey to Urga, and eventually to Kiakhta (Troitskosavsk), Verkhne Udinsk, and the Great Siberian Railway, does not call for any…Listen from here · chapter 13, 5:38 - 1920–1921
Beasts, Men and Gods
The old tea-road town on the Siberian-Mongolian border, in Red hands during the book's events. Now Kyakhta.
…were scattered; also that Communist agitators had penetrated to Kiakhta, Ulankom and Kobdo and had persuaded the Chinese authorities to surrender to the Soviet…Listen from here · chapter 16, 6:09…gradually entering into secret relations with the Bolsheviki and in Kiakhta and Ulankom delivered to them the Russian refugees, thus violating recognized…Listen from here · chapter 20, 6:14
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