For centuries, citizens of the Eurasian continent have pondered an affordable and speedy way to traverse the great expanse of tundra separating Europeans from their Asian neighbors. And when the ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in May 2024. It was republished in February 2025 to mark the launch of CNN’s Chance Encounters podcast Marie-Claire Martineau couldn’t stop thinking ...

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Editor’s note: Doug Anderson is a retired IBM programer and planner who has been riding the rails for years. He traveled on the Trans-Siberian Express Aug. 10-24, 2006. That was the reply to the ...

According to preliminary information, the suspect was interacting with unknown individuals in Ukraine and agreed to set fire to relay boxes on the Trans-Siberia Railway for money KEMEROVO, April 16.

MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled a terrorist attack on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Urals plotted by a Ukrainian military intelligence agent, the FSB ...

When in Moscow, visit the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat or more simply, St Basil’s Cathedral. The fabled Trans-Siberian Railway offers an odyssey of a lifetime, ...