Subject: Re: SU Railway border<br/>
Date: Apr 30, 2003 @ 14:07<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-729235986">jesper <br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; what came first the boundary or the railway?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>it looks like the railways must have come first in every case<br/>
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& it seems the soviets must have pinned the boundaries to the <br/>
railways in places just for administrative convenience<br/>
<br/>
but if the railroads were the property of the federal state anyway<br/>
rather than of the individual republics<br/>
as also seems most likely<br/>
tho i admit i dont know this for a fact<br/>
then there may never have been any allocation to the individual <br/>
republics of responsibility for or ownership of the tracks or beds <br/>
or equipment etc<br/>
nor any interrepublic collaborations nor condominiums etc <br/>
based on sharing them<br/>
<br/>
rather <br/>
soviet railway management & ownership seems much more <br/>
likely to have been federal than interstate<br/>
<br/>
again just guessing<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but if that is true<br/>
then such railway based borders function more like allocational <br/>
lines or metaboundaries than real boundaries<br/>
or even like federal buffer strips between republics<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
in any case it now looks as tho the postsoviet republics are <br/>
finding it necessary to back away from such arrangements<br/>
for their own newly defined administrative convenience<br/>
which of course is now a function of their disunion rather than <br/>
union</div>