Kalyuzhnova, Yelena; Pomfret, Richard - 2021
, south of, and across the Caspian Sea. Since 1500, maritime transport has dominated trade between Europe and East Asia … from 1917 to 1991. Practically all the trade links ran north to the Russian Federation. In the 21st century, with the …, for trade in other goods, new transport corridors opened up more slowly until, in the 2010s, the PRC - EU rail links began …