MOSCOW -- The Trans-Siberian Mainline, one of the world's classic rail journeys, is intimidating to some potential passengers because they don't speak Russian and because the trip takes a week. Now, ...
To travel from Ust-Kut, where my 2,300-mile journey began, is no simple thing. Moscow and the government of the SakhaRepublic (in Russian, Yakutia), a semiautonomous region within greater Siberia, ...
When I told colleagues I was planning a trip to Siberia, they smirked and questioned, "On vacation?" But when I mentioned the idea to my Russian teacher, she grabbed my hand, fired off several "nyets" ...
Frazier's first trip -- 9,000 miles in five weeks and two days -- was in Kennan's footsteps, west to east, starting at the Baltic and finishing at the Pacific on, of all days, Sept. 11, 2001. As a ...
The writer works at The Spotlight in the advertising department. A trip to see my in-laws is not a simple thing, and does not happen for me as often as it does for my wife and daughter. You see, my ...
Learn the common challenges that come with planning such a colossal journey - and of course, the strategies to overcome them.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin spent several days hiking and fishing in Siberia in early September, the Kremlin said on Sunday as it published pictures of the president on the ...