Transsib Topics

Circum-Baikal Railway is a 85-km historical railway branch of Trans-Siberian Railway laid from Irkutsk along the steep north-western shore of Lake Baikal from port Baikal at the Angara river headwaters to Slyudianka settlement at the most southern extremity of the lake. Prior to the commissioning of the Circum-Baikal Railway, the …

The Trans-Siberian Railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. It is the longest railway line in the world. There are connecting branch lines into Mongolia, China and North Korea. It has connected Moscow with Vladivostok since 1916 and is …