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Léon Loïcq de Lobel was a French engineer, explorer, and early megaproject promoter whose name became closely linked to the first serious international attempt to advance a Bering Strait fixed link. Between 1898 and 1907, he pursued a transcontinental scheme to connect North America and Eurasia by rail via Canada, Alaska, Chukotka, and the Trans-Siberian Railway — including tunnels toward the Diomede Islands as the natural midpoint between the continents. By Fyodor Soloview, March 2026
Dream Projects: Bering Strait Tunnel Possible With “Existing Technology”
by Scott Blair, ENR November 11, 2014
InterBering, LLC
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A Superhighway Across the Bering Strait
by Adrian Shirk, The Atlantic, July 1, 2015
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Moving Canadian products to China - by railway
by Ger. Pilger, April 17, 2015
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John Arthur Lynch: An Early Advocate of a Bering Strait Connection. Irish-born American lawyer and Civil War officer John Arthur Lynch (ca. 1828-1900) was among the earliest documented promoters of transportation links between North America and Asia through Alaska and the Bering Strait region. Working from Washington, D.C., he petitioned Congress to investigate routes toward Russia, Japan, and China. His advocacy prompted an 1886 Senate bill and federal review, helping establish the Alaska-Asia transportation concept in the official U.S. record decades before detailed bridge and tunnel proposals emerged.
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Russian Railways supports the construction
Letter from JSCo "Russian Railways"
to Fyodor Soloview, President InterBering, LLC. August 27, 2014 Original letter, in Russian (PDF). Translation to English (PDF).
Fyodor Soloview, Director of InterBering, LLC (standing) taking part in discussion of the Russia-US railway construction project with the Deputy Head of Technical Policy of JSCo "Russian Railways" Viktor Alferov on August 15, 2014.
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