Javascript has been disabled and slidehow requires javascript. To see the slideshow, please enable javascript.
Kuokkaniemi railway station
We travelled again without a map. This was recorded in St. Petersbourg station to help us to buy tickets
The beginning of our Trans-Siberian experience
Päivi is ready to conquer Russia
Militsiya aka police in St. Petersbourg
Russian trains usually have a combined sitting and sleeping compartment
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
Buying another train ticket in Tver after unsuccessful attempt to book into a hotel
Militsiya checking foreigners' documents, Moscow.
Soviet architecture in Moscow
University of Moscow
More Soviet-style architecture seen from our hotel window in Moscow.
At night even these ugly colosses look tolerable
Heading away from the unfriendly Moscow
This is not a palace but Komsomolskaya metro station, Moscow
Two Vasilis (right one aka Stallone) from Ukraina. These chaps kept us company during the 24-hour trip from Moscow to Perm
Our train hostess aka Täti Tomera
Soviet style hotel room in Perm, Ural
Carpet
Central radio on the wall
Bathroom from the 1970's
There are always queues in fron tof railway ticket offices
They have pre-scheduled breaks, watch out!
Perm, Ural, Russia
Not KFC but SFC (Southern Fried Chicken)
A helpful dievutshka in Yekaterinburg station, Ural
A Lenin monument on the left, missed just a few seconds
In the sauna with the hat to protect the brain (what brain?)
A Russian private sauna we visited in Yekaterinburg
Nice star on top of the tower in Yekaterinburg
The Lenin statue again, we had to return fortaking another picture
A building
A church
A beer glass with trash
Päivi is thinking about how great Lenin was
Yekaterinburg railway station
Saint Santeri
Not Saint Päivi
Train car, the cheapest class
Tea is available 24 hours in samovar in each car
Sometimes it was very hot, 30C, but our Russians travel companions didn't want to have windows open
You can store all your valuables here
Radio button to turn off loud music in the morning when you don't want to wake up yet
Beware, toilet is not open all the time
Pull down to get a good picture from the train window
The restaurants in the trains are usually empty
Train lunch, soljanka (soup) and Sibisrskaya beer
Toilet
Good business filling water bottles at the fire post in the station and then selling the bottles to customers
Russian chocolate is damn cheap
Electricity in the train
Platskart wagon
Our charming waitress in the train restaurant
A typical train outfit (knee-length trousers and slippers)
Our Bela-Russian travel company on the way from Yekaterinburg to Novosibirsk
Drunk
The group was going to hike in Altay mountain
Rainbow pharmacy
Russian railway stations are impressive. This lamp was in Novosibirsk station
Russians like their toilets to be on the floor Turkish style
Railway is slow because it is constructed from wood, not concrete poles
In kupé car there is a useless door in every compartment
An overall view to a kupé cart
Kupé compartment inside, pretty much the same as the cheapter obshie and platskart compartments
He was worried about his property, even when sleeping
Train view
A landscape in Siberia
Päivi wants to have a banana
Kupe in use
Unsatisfied kupé customers smiling
Soon we get out, no more feathers choaking our throats
The samovar, for boiling water, is not always as hot as it must be because of lazy conductors. Now only 60 degrees
Irkutsk, Angara River
Behind the lace curtain of Russia
Irkutsk railway station
A church in Irkutsk
Lenin, but where is Nokia
Tram, Irkutsk
Lenin gives his blessing to a newly married couple
Ulan-Ude, Russia's passage to Mongolia
Russian lunch table, see tableware
"Tämä on loppu, tähän on tultu, Vladivostok"
Trans-Siberian railway map
Vladivostok railway station
Tourists shopping wooden matushka dolls
Lenin pointing the way to heaven, Vladivostok
The harbour of Vladivostok, Russia
The conductor who ripped us off in Vladivostok airport bus
Russia doesn't care too much of environment although it has superb nature
All kinds of tickets in Vladivostok airport bus
Gold teeth are popular in Russia
Bye bye Russian tourist rip-off scams
Päivi and Tupolev 154-M
Airport bus made a 50-meter detour before returning to the same place, just to the other side of the lane in Vladivostok airport
Previous
Next
