Trans-Siberian railway (or Transsib) is a unique technological object, the giant railroad, the length of which exceeds 9000 kilometers. During the time that a passenger spends on the way he manages to cross 8(!) time zones. Transsib is the longest railway in the world.
For many foreigners Transsiberian is still a legend, a mythical bridge between Europe and Asia, a kind of cult. Those who want to get acquainted with Russia not from the tourist brochures and splendid facades, but to see the essence of the amazing country, believe that the best way to explore Russia is to make a trip along Transsib.
What the Transsib is? As it was said above, it is several thousand kilometers of railway, which crosses Russia from west to east and сonnects the capital Moscow and one of the most eastern cities - Vladivostok. The construction of the Transisb was started during the time of Tsar Alexander III. The scale of the project hadn’t any analogues in the Russia of that time. The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway was launched in 1837. The last line - Khabarovsk-Vladivostok - was opened 60 years later, in 1898.
Transsib offers several options for traveling, including the so-called historical. It goes through the major cities of Volga, Ural and Siberia. In total there are four lines of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In addition to the Historic line, there are the New, the South and the North lines. The main difference between them is that the New and the North lines go through Yekaterinburg and Tyumen and the Historic and the Southern lines go through Chelyabinsk and Ufa.
Cities of Transsib:
- Moscow
- Ryazan
-- Yaroslavl
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Murom
- Samara
- Kirov
- Perm
- Yekaterinburg
- Ufa
- Tyumen
- Chelyabinsk
- Omsk
- Tomsk
- Irkutsk
- Chita
- Ulan-Ude
- Novosibirsk
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