Russia on the Trans-Siberian

Russia is vast. Vast like a continent. It can be overwhelming for any traveler that isn’t sure how to go about it. Saint Petersburg, Moscow and the famous Golden Ring are obvious destinations, but after that ? Nijni Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Tomsk, Omsk, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, faraway Siberia… By plane ? Why not do the journey by train, on a railway line that will, in just a few years, celebrate a century of adventure: the Trans-Siberian !-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It will soon be 100 years since the construction of this monumental work was completed, in 1916 to be exact, allowing for a passage to the Far East covering 7 time zones, 8 days, 990 stations, 9289 kilometers! The figures can make your head spin and an indefinable whiff of History still lingers over the tracks… The Trans-Siberian Railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian line that connects hundreds of large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. Taking eight days to complete the journey, it is the third-longest single continuous service in the world, after the Moscow-Pyongyang (10267km) and the Kiev Vladivostok (11085km) services, both of which also follow the Trans-Siberian for much of their routes. “I was in Moscow, in the city of a thousand and three bell towers and seven train stations And it was not enough for me, the seven stations and the thousand and three towers…” The Prose du TransSiberian by Blaise Cendrars, among other written works, has greatly contributed to the creation of the myth surrounding the Trans-Siberian Railway.

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