Main sources for this Handbook were served for:
• Guidebook along Great Siberian Way, St-Petersburg, 1901
• Guidebook along Great Siberian Way, St-Petersburg, 1910
• Guidebook along Great Siberian Way, St-Petersburg, 1914
• Album of schemes of railways of CIS States-members and Baltic States, Moscow, 1999
• Album of USSR railways, Moscow, 1986
• USSR railways – directions and stations, Moscow, 1970
• Encyclopedia of USSR railway transport, Moscow, 1994
• Handbook of USSR railway stations in 2 v., Moscow, 1981
• Monograph “To the Great Ocean”, by H.Tupper, Boston – Toronto, 1965
• Brief knowledge about development of domestic railways from 1838 to 1990, Moscow, 1996
• Anniversary album of railway lines are at Transsib, 1991-2000
• Train and station shedules , 1980-2001
• Numerous maps of areas and regions of Russia with scale 1:500,000 and larger, 1961-2000
• Personal trips, observations and notes by the author and many site visitors, 1973-2001
• also more than 40 various sources – books, booklet and visual materials…