 In 1922, the railway was transferred to the authority of the People's Commissariat for Communications (Народный Комиссариат Путей Сообщения).In 1959, the Amur Railway and the Transbaikal section of the Transsib were merged to form the Transbaikal Railway.The construction of the Amur Railway was completed before the outbreak of World War I and cost over 250,000 million rubles.