Travel by Trans-Siberian Railway is undoubtedly the most fascinating voyage of the world. While traveling across the vast expanse of Russia visitors get a unique chance to learn more of different cultures and present-day lifestyles of local people, see historical monuments, admire breathtaking sceneries of virgin land, the Siberian taiga, great rivers, steppes, mountains and deserts. For many people the great part of the pleasure is simply sitting back and watching the land they go by. However, most travelers on the Trans-Siberian Railway find that it is interaction with other passengers and local people is what makes the trip an unforgettable experience.

Today it is possible to use the rail journey as the core of a more aried tour. Travelers can enjoy stopovers in many of the Russian ities and towns along the route. There is a convenient rail connection with Mongolia and China, which offers options of combining Russia, China and Mongolia in one single tour. To the west, connections are available through Moscow to Berlin (and from there to Paris), to Budapest, and to St. Petersburg (and from there to Helsinki).

In Russia and Mongolia you travel on board the Trans-Siberian Intourist Express, which offers accommodation in the First and Standard Class. In Сhina passengers travel on board the Chinese train in Standard Class. The change of trains takes place at Erlian station on the Chinese border.

Total length of the oneway route 7,622 km

MOSCOW – KAZAN – YEKATERINBURG – NOVOSIBIRSK – IRKUTSK – CIRCUM BAIKAL RAIL ROAD – ULAN-UDE – ULAN-BATOR – ERLIAN – BEIJING

(15 days/14 nights)

BEIJING – ERLIAN – ULAN-BATOR – ULAN-UDE – CIRCUM BAIKAL RAIL ROAD – IRKUTSK – NOVOSIBIRSK – YEKATERINBURG – KAZAN – MOSCOW

(15 days/14 nights)

Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation is one of the major world megapolises with the population over 10 million people. It is the country’s important industrial, financial and business centre.

Kazan is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation, and one of Russia’s largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in central European Russia.

Yekaterinburg is The Trans-Siberian’s first stop in Asian Russia. It is the major industrial city and transport hub of the country, located in the central Ural Mountains on the border between Europe and Asia. The city was founded as a fortress in 1728 by a Russian geographer Vasily Tatischev and grew later on to become the administrative and cultural center of the Ural region. The city is famous for its history. Here rebellious Emelian Pugachyov raised peasant revolt against the Russian Tzar. In this city the Romanov royal dynasty met the fatal end as the Tzar’s family were executed in 1918. Their remains were found only in the 1980s and reburied in 1998 in Saint-Petersburg.

Novosibirsk is the nearest big city to the geographical center of Russia located on the picturesque banks of the wide and beautiful Ob River. Founded in 1893 as a settlement of workers engaged in the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad it grew to become Russia’s third largest city after Moscow and Saint Petersburg and the major administrative center in Siberia. It is also a world renown scientific center with The Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and branches of the Medical and Agricultural Academies located there.