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From Monday, January 27, traffic and passenger movement through the border crossing points between Mongolia and China are limited. This decision was made by the Government of Mongolia to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Rail and air transport will operate as before.

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 …