Trans Siberian Captions
Trans Siberian Railway
An Epic Journey 6000 miles across Russia.
(Westbound - Vladivostok to Moscow.)
Index to the images in the Web Gallery.
1 Vladivostok Airport
2 Secessionist Versailles Hotel and European styled buildings
4 - 5 The marina and the Sea of Japan off Vladivostok
6 Fesco Clock tower
8 - 9 Museum
10- 11 Streets and Statues
12 - 19 Near the harbour and the submarine museum
Weddings taking place, gypsies, Chain ferry.
20 - 25 Harbour from the water - a short cruise on the 'Sea of Japan'.
26 - 28 Harbour light and causway (with wedding party!)
29 The town from the harbour
30 - 38 Sunday afternoon on the promenade by the harbour
40 - 46 Vladivostok "Voxall" station. 9288 km to go.
47 - 50 Leaving Vladivostok towards -
51 - 55 Kabarovsk
56 - 61 Kabarovsk churches, the city monument and the River Amur
63 - 100 A day's travel through Far Eastern Russia
101 Enter Siberia at km 7065
102 - 144 Siberian landscapes and villages east of Ulan Ude
145 - 146 A stop at Mogocha
147 - 169 Frosty morning towards Mogzon
171 A level crossing post
172 A typical 5 storey communist block of flats (apartments)
174 A war memorial by the track
175 - 185 Eastern Siberian landscape
186 Picking mushrooms?
187 - 188 Dwelling and village
189 - 192 Defunct industry
193 - 194 Reservoir
195 - 196 Petrovskiy Zavod Station with Mosaic depicting exiled
Decembrists and statue of Lenin - Chita Oblast - Transbaikalia
197 - 203 Countryside people, Ylka station and small hawk.
204 - 207 Arrival Ulan Ude station
208 - 217 Ulan Ude on the way to Mongolia
218 - 239 Landscape - Siberia before Mongolian border
240 - 248 Mongolia early morning. Gers, herdsmen village houses and railwaymen. (Ger = Mongolian yurt)
249 - 253 Gers among the industry - Ulaan Baator
254 - 260 Ulaan Baator station
261 - 268 Street life Ulaan Baator
269 - 302 Gandan monastery - Ulaan Baator
303 State Department Store
304 - 310 Street life, policeman on his trolley.
311 - 317 Ghengis Khan monument and central square, people.
318 Photo booth
319 - 331 people around the centre of the city
332 - 335 Street life
336 - 349 Gorkhi-Terelj national park...lunch in a ger, and traditional
dressed tribesmen at a wedding celebration
350 - 360 A traditional nomadic family - milking a mare and herding - near
Ulaan Baator
361 - 369 Street life
370 An odd monument to the Beatles
371 Local girls
372 - 373 Back to the State Department Store
374 - 384 Ger restaurant with brilliant traditional Mongolian folk entertainers
384 - 388 return to Siberia and Ulan Ude
389- 402 Ulan Ude and the station
403- 409 The largest head of Lenin.
The city centre. Capital of the Buryat Republic
410 - 417 On the way out of Ulan Ude to the village of the Old Believers
A disaffected sect who migrated to this area.
418 - 450 The Old Believer's village of Turbagatay. 54 km from Ulan Ude.
The priest and his Museum, an "open" house and an entertainment involving a mock wedding ceremony
452 The Selenga River
453 Ulan Ude Station
454 Lake Baikal
473 Riding on the engine
486 - 490 Swimming in Baikal and the Picnic area at Polovinnaya
499 Approaching Port Baikal.
Trans Siberian Railway
Part Two
2 - 5 Approaching Port Baikal
6 - 11 Port Baikal
12 - 14 Ferry accross the mouth of the Angara river
Landing at Listvyanka
15 - 27 The Taltsy wooden architecture museum
28 - 30 Aquarium and Museum at Listvyanka
Fresh water seals only found in Baikal.
31 - 32 Listvyanka
33 Baikal Hydrofoil
34 - 35 Port Baikal on the South side of the Angara
36 - 44 Irkursk and Irkutsk street life
46 - 47 A wedding near the Angara
48 - 52 Irkutsk famous wooden buildings partly buried by
a century of road building
54 - 55 Znamensky Women's monastery and garden
56 - 68 Buildings and the Angara
69 - 73 Street life and some communist architecture (a cinema)
74 - 75 A communist style restaurant (pectopah)
76 Angara Dam
77 - 83 The Icebreaker Angara used on Baikal and made in Britain
84 - 110 Street life and market, classic wooden buildings
112 A restored Siberian wooden building in Frederick Engels Street
114 - 128 The Prince S.G. Volkonsky`s premises - exiled Decembrists house
and a concert therein
131 A level crossing guard house on the way out of Irkutsk
132 - 148 Countyside, stations (Kansk) and people on way to Krasnoyarsk
149 Stuart Thom an expert adviser on Russia gives an informative talk
150 The level crossings are nurtured
151 - 164 Lush Siberian landscape
165 - 167 The station at Uyar
167 - 173 Back yard, water tower, Ziyukovo station halt
174 - 179 Approaching Krasnoyarsk and crossing the Yenesi River
180 - 187 Krasnoyarsk station and environs
188 Minimarket!
189 - 191 Krasnoyarsk station
192 - 204 Landscape between Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk
205 - 211 The River Ob (Lovers leave their locks near the new bridge)
212 Russian Mathematical Academia
213 - 218 Street life and factories Novosibirsk
219 - 225 Railway Museum and Car Museum
226 - 228 Mineral - Geological Museum Akademgorodok (20 km south of Novosibirsk)
229 - 236 Street life, museums socialist statues Novosibirsk
237 - 238 The Opera
239 - 242 Market and Statues
241 Russian Blini kiosk
244 Novosibirsk station
245 The Ob harbour
246 Barges
247 - 257 Evening glow for the 22 hour haul to Yekaterinberg
258 - 262 Frosty morning too early for some
264 Boundary of Siberia? - Probably not according the Nat Geog tutor
but marked on the map as such
263 - 267 On the way to the Urals
268 This truck once ran between Russia and Finland
269 Carl writes his journal - with Mongolian hat looking on
270 - 273 Finally Yekaterinberg Station and environs and gypsies
(Yekaterinberg was once Sverdlovsk)
274 - 279 Socialist statues, the new church memorial to the Romanovs
slaughtered by the Bolsheviks A group shot and Anna and Tatyana
seek souvenirs with our Nat Geog coordinator
280 Yekaterinberg looking modern
282 What oligarchs are made from - Gas
284 The price of a Mercedes Truck
285 - 290 Street life
291 The pleasures of European mega stores - Ikea, Auchan, McD
292 The motorway grinds over the Urals near the border between Asia and Europe
293 - 294 The border and a spoof guard (just to remind you)
295 - 304 Communist buildings, street life
305 - 319 The city centre - the River Islet - war memorial and outdoor machinery museum
320 - 323 Street life
324 - 325 Yekaterinberg Station
326 Sergei welcomes us in his quiet friendly manner
327 - 330 Over the Urals
331 Ash mountain from a power station
332 Clearing brush from alongside the track
333 Kazan
334 - 355 Street life
336 Leisure complex
337 Lady traditionally offering sweet stuff outside the Kremlin
338 - 372 Kremlin, mosque and views over the Volga
373 - 382 Street life
383 Pushkin
387 Bauman Street
391 A concert in the Shalyapin Hotel (Shalyapin was a famous entertainer)
396 - 397 Restaurant in Bauman Street
403 Shalyapin
404 - 407 Bauman Street
409 Pleasure boat interior
410 - 419 A trip on the Volga
420 - 422 Kazan Station
423 - 426 Lowering sun over the Volga and speeding past the windows
427 - 428 Last evening meal aboard
429 Vekovka station early morning
430 - 434 Landscape and Dachas on approach to Moscow
435 - 440 Moscow and the last few kilometers and ...there.
441 - 448 Street life to Red Square
449 - 462 Red Square, Lenin's tomb, Gym (Gum), St Basil's Cathedral.
463 British Embassy
464 Metro Station
465 Restaurant near Arch of Triumph
466 Park life
467 - 468 Moscow River bridge and river
470 Viewpoint
471 University
472 Graduate
473 Arch of Triumph
474 - 480 Metro
481 - 486 People in Red square and Gym.
487 Domodedovo Airport
488 Kilometer posts wherever I remembered to photograph them