"It is still deprived of serious navigation"

125 years ago, on June 4, 1898, the emperor Nikolay II allowed shipping company creation for transportations passengers and freights across Terek; one experts doubted possibility of the organization of movement of steamships on flowing from mountains and the capricious river, others considered the project quite feasible; thus all somehow forgot partially about similar and ambiguous by results the experiment made on several decades earlier on other large Caucasian river. "Width of Terek considerably fluctuates — from 150–200 sazh. almost to verst" the Photo: Abramochkin Youri / Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti" "Forming underwater braids" Opinion...