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| Landscape near Irkutsk (by VChokan) |
I hope to make one or two journeys along a part of the Trans-Siberian Railroad before the end of 2011. I’m not sure I’ll dare to go on a full journey in winter, but next summer everything is possible. I have not been outside Central Russia, and using a train is as reliable as it is affordable way of exploring the country and its people.
Anyway, here is the map of the Trans-Siberian, Trans-Mongolian, and Trans-Manchurian Railways. Only the first of them – Trans-Siberian – takes you from Moscow to Vladivostok without leaving Russia. Two others connect Moscow with Beijing, Trans-Mongolian going through Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, and Trans-Manchurian going via North-Eastern China.