Russia: Trans-Siberian train trip

Kuokkaniemi railway station
2006-07-12

We travelled again without a map. This was recorded in St. Petersbourg station to help us to buy tickets
2006-07-14

The beginning of our Trans-Siberian experience
2006-07-14

Päivi is ready to conquer Russia
2006-07-14

Militsiya aka police in St. Petersbourg
2006-07-14

Russian trains usually have a combined sitting and sleeping compartment
2006-07-14

We couldn't book into this hotel in Tver because we had not been registered officially. Read more about obligatory registrations in Russia in our blog
2006-07-15

Buying another train ticket in Tver after unsuccessful attempt to book into a hotel
2006-07-15

Militsiya checking foreigners' documents, Moscow.
2006-07-15

Soviet architecture in Moscow
2006-07-15

University of Moscow
2006-07-15

More Soviet-style architecture seen from our hotel window in Moscow.
2006-07-15

At night even these ugly colosses look tolerable
2006-07-15

Heading away from the unfriendly Moscow
2006-07-16

This is not a palace but Komsomolskaya metro station, Moscow
2006-07-16

Two Vasilis (right one aka Stallone) from Ukraina. These chaps kept us company during the 24-hour trip from Moscow to Perm
2006-07-17

Our train hostess aka Täti Tomera
2006-07-17

Soviet style hotel room in Perm, Ural
2006-07-19

Carpet
2006-07-19

Central radio on the wall
2006-07-19

Bathroom from the 1970's
2006-07-19

There are always queues in fron tof railway ticket offices
2006-07-25

They have pre-scheduled breaks, watch out!
2006-07-25

Perm, Ural, Russia
2006-07-25

Not KFC but SFC (Southern Fried Chicken)
2006-07-25

A helpful dievutshka in Yekaterinburg station, Ural
2006-07-26

A Lenin monument on the left, missed just a few seconds
2006-07-26

In the sauna with the hat to protect the brain (what brain?)
2006-07-26

A Russian private sauna we visited in Yekaterinburg
2006-07-26

Nice star on top of the tower in Yekaterinburg
2006-07-26

The Lenin statue again, we had to return fortaking another picture
2006-07-26

A building
2006-07-26

A church
2006-07-26

A beer glass with trash
2006-07-26

Päivi is thinking about how great Lenin was
2006-07-26

Yekaterinburg railway station
2006-07-26

Saint Santeri
2006-07-26

Not Saint Päivi
2006-07-26

Train car, the cheapest class
2006-07-28

Tea is available 24 hours in samovar in each car
2006-07-28

Sometimes it was very hot, 30C, but our Russians travel companions didn't want to have windows open
2006-07-28

You can store all your valuables here
2006-07-28

Radio button to turn off loud music in the morning when you don't want to wake up yet
2006-07-28

Beware, toilet is not open all the time
2006-07-28

Pull down to get a good picture from the train window
2006-07-28

The restaurants in the trains are usually empty
2006-07-28

Train lunch, soljanka (soup) and Sibisrskaya beer
2006-07-28

Toilet
2006-07-29

Good business filling water bottles at the fire post in the station and then selling the bottles to customers
2006-07-29

Russian chocolate is damn cheap
2006-07-29

Electricity in the train
2006-07-31

Platskart wagon
2006-07-31

Our charming waitress in the train restaurant
2006-07-31

A typical train outfit (knee-length trousers and slippers)
2006-07-31

Our Bela-Russian travel company on the way from Yekaterinburg to Novosibirsk
2006-07-31

Drunk
2006-07-31

The group was going to hike in Altay mountain
2006-07-31

Rainbow pharmacy
2006-08-01

Russian railway stations are impressive. This lamp was in Novosibirsk station
2006-08-02

Russians like their toilets to be on the floor Turkish style
2006-08-02

Railway is slow because it is constructed from wood, not concrete poles
2006-08-03

In kupé car there is a useless door in every compartment
2006-08-03

An overall view to a kupé cart
2006-08-03

Kupé compartment inside, pretty much the same as the cheapter obshie and platskart compartments
2006-08-03

He was worried about his property, even when sleeping
2006-08-03

Train view
2006-08-03

A landscape in Siberia
2006-08-03

Päivi wants to have a banana
2006-08-03

Kupe in use
2006-08-03

Unsatisfied kupé customers smiling
2006-08-03

Soon we get out, no more feathers choaking our throats
2006-08-03

The samovar, for boiling water, is not always as hot as it must be because of lazy conductors. Now only 60 degrees
2006-08-03

Irkutsk, Angara River
2006-08-06

Behind the lace curtain of Russia
2006-08-07

Irkutsk railway station
2006-08-09

A church in Irkutsk
2006-08-09

Lenin, but where is Nokia
2006-08-09

Tram, Irkutsk
2006-08-11

Lenin gives his blessing to a newly married couple
2006-08-11

Ulan-Ude, Russia's passage to Mongolia
2006-08-11

Russian lunch table, see tableware
2006-08-13

"Tämä on loppu, tähän on tultu, Vladivostok"
2006-08-15

Trans-Siberian railway map
2006-08-16

Vladivostok railway station
2006-08-16

Tourists shopping wooden matushka dolls
2006-08-16

Lenin pointing the way to heaven, Vladivostok
2006-08-16

The harbour of Vladivostok, Russia
2006-08-16

The conductor who ripped us off in Vladivostok airport bus
2006-08-17

Russia doesn't care too much of environment although it has superb nature
2006-08-17

All kinds of tickets in Vladivostok airport bus
2006-08-17

Gold teeth are popular in Russia
2006-08-17

Bye bye Russian tourist rip-off scams
2006-08-17

Päivi and Tupolev 154-M
2006-08-17

Airport bus made a 50-meter detour before returning to the same place, just to the other side of the lane in Vladivostok airport
2006-08-17