To the Baikal and back by Tupolev and Trans-Siberian Railway!!
  
  
  


  
  
  
  
  		      
   

 

  

 

Stop 1 (December 26th) and 7 (January 5th): Moscow 
     
   

 

He he ... "Perm" ...        

 

  
  
  

   
  

Stop 6: Ekaterinburg (January 4th)
The old city of Katherine the Great. 
I was too ill to go out of the station 
building. Dammit.

 

Stop 4: Krasnoyarsk (January 2nd)
The deceased General Lebed's city, more 'Soviet' than any city we visited.

Stop 5: Novosibirsk (January 3rd)
The great capital of Siberia, by some estimated to be the exact center of Russia. The main railway station is of fine, stalinist splendour; a magnificent, gigantic green complex.

  

   
     
 
 
 
 
Stop 2: Irkutsk (December 29th)
A little big city by the river Angara.

   

 

 

 

Stop 3 (December 29th): Listvyanka/Baikal lake
The Baikal lake is truly one of the most fascinating places on this earth. Its water is older than the glaciers of Greenland, and it houses lots of unique animals and plants that were left there when the ocean pulled back from the land. Due to a phenomenon no one has been able to explain yet, the water of the lake is eerily deep blue. It is so clear that you can see the bottom several hundreds of meters below ...

    

Route map from www.transsib.ru
(perverted by me)

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