According to the author, the favourable geographical direction and the common track gauge of the railway networks of the USSR and the PRC can well serve to expand mutual and international traffic, including transit (Europe - Far East) traffic, and to co-ordinate the efforts of the USSR and China...

On 15 January 1986, the Soviet and Mongolian peoples marked the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance between the USSR and the MPR. The author outlines close economic and political co-operation between these countries, impact of the Russian October Revolution on...