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From Naushki to Moscow

Naushki is the border crossing point between Mongolia and Russia - a process which took over five hours late in the evening, thus, no images (customs checking with dogs, searches through all the carriage infrastructure, knocking on the panels, looking under the seats etc.) - quite a thorough check.
By contrast, the authorities never even looked at us when we left the country, passing into Belarus!

From here we continued on through Ulan-Ude (the meeting point with the Trans-Siberia train from the east, Vladivostok), Slyudyanka, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tumen, Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), Permi, Kirov, Gorky, Vladimir and Moscow.

And all the time trying to learn the Russian Cyrillic alphabet!

Winston Churchill in a broadacst in October 1939 said: "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
Taiga Forest
Taiga Forest		 Misovaya
Misovaya		 XIMG_6648.jpg
XIMG_6648.jpg		 XIMG_6651.jpg
XIMG_6651.jpg
Slyudyanka
Slyudyanka		 XIMG_6655.jpg
XIMG_6655.jpg		 Buddies
Buddies		 Fish Vendor
Fish Vendor
Colour
Colour		 XIMG_6669.jpg
XIMG_6669.jpg		 Windows
Windows		 XIMG_6679.jpg
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XIMG_6682.jpg		 Many different styles of homes
Many different styles of homes		 XIMG_6690.jpg
XIMG_6690.jpg		 Irkutsk
Irkutsk
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XIMG_6723.jpg		 At Irkutsk, drop off point for Lake Baikal
At Irkutsk, drop off point for Lake Baikal		 XIMG_6714.jpg
XIMG_6714.jpg		 XIMG_6709.jpg
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XIMG_6712.jpg
XIMG_6712.jpg		 Angara River
Angara River		 XIMG_6720.jpg
XIMG_6720.jpg		 XIMG_6722.jpg
XIMG_6722.jpg
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal		 XIMG_6646.jpg
XIMG_6646.jpg		 XIMG_8936.jpg
XIMG_8936.jpg		 XIMG_8937.jpg
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XIMG_8939.jpg		 XIMG_8944.jpg
XIMG_8944.jpg		 XIMG_8948.jpg
XIMG_8948.jpg		 XIMG_8959.jpg
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XIMG_6735.jpg		 XIMG_6741.jpg
XIMG_6741.jpg		 XIMG_6743.jpg
XIMG_6743.jpg		 XIMG_6746.jpg
XIMG_6746.jpg
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XIMG_6752.jpg		 XIMG_6754.jpg
XIMG_6754.jpg		 XIMG_6767.jpg
XIMG_6767.jpg		 Birds in Flight
Birds in Flight
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XIMG_6774.jpg		 Zima
Zima		 XIMG_6781.jpg
XIMG_6781.jpg		 Oka River
Oka River
Off to meet the boys!
Off to meet the boys!		 The Pause that Refreshes
The Pause that Refreshes		 XIMG_6788.jpg
XIMG_6788.jpg		 After...
After...
Babushka
Babushka		 XIMG_6795.jpg
XIMG_6795.jpg		 XIMG_6798.jpg
XIMG_6798.jpg		 Mother and Daughter?
Mother and Daughter?
Cemetery
Cemetery		 XIMG_6814.jpg
XIMG_6814.jpg		 XIMG_6822.jpg
XIMG_6822.jpg		 Hot Water Boiler
Hot Water Boiler
Mariinsk
Mariinsk		 XIMG_6807.jpg
XIMG_6807.jpg		 XIMG_6833.jpg
XIMG_6833.jpg		 XIMG_6803.jpg
XIMG_6803.jpg
XIMG_6834.jpg
XIMG_6834.jpg		 XIMG_6839.jpg
XIMG_6839.jpg		 XIMG_6846.jpg
XIMG_6846.jpg		 Yurga
Yurga
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XIMG_6851.jpg		 XIMG_6857.jpg
XIMG_6857.jpg		 Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk		 XIMG_6874.jpg
XIMG_6874.jpg
XIMG_6858.jpg
XIMG_6858.jpg		 XIMG_6864.jpg
XIMG_6864.jpg		 XIMG_6865.jpg
XIMG_6865.jpg		 XIMG_6870.jpg
XIMG_6870.jpg
XIMG_6878.jpg
XIMG_6878.jpg		 XIMG_6881.jpg
XIMG_6881.jpg		 XIMG_6885.jpg
XIMG_6885.jpg		 XIMG_6887.jpg
XIMG_6887.jpg
XIMG_6888.jpg
XIMG_6888.jpg		 XIMG_6890.jpg
XIMG_6890.jpg		 Ob River
Ob River		 XIMG_6904.jpg
XIMG_6904.jpg
XIMG_6916.jpg
XIMG_6916.jpg		 XIMG_6924.jpg
XIMG_6924.jpg		 Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk		 XIMG_6935.jpg
XIMG_6935.jpg
XIMG_6938.jpg
XIMG_6938.jpg		 XIMG_6946.jpg
XIMG_6946.jpg		 XIMG_6957.jpg
XIMG_6957.jpg		 Kiosk
Kiosk
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XIMG_6960.jpg		 Tyumen
Tyumen		 XIMG_6962.jpg
XIMG_6962.jpg		 Russian Trans-Siberian Railway
Russian Trans-Siberian Railway
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XIMG_6968.jpg		 Forest Steppe
Forest Steppe		 Gypsies
Gypsies		 Sverdlovsk/Ekaterinburg
Sverdlovsk/Ekaterinburg
Old Railway Station
Old Railway Station		 Marker: Boundary between Asia and Europe
Marker: Boundary between Asia and Europe		 Kourovka Observatory
Kourovka Observatory		 XIMG_7040.jpg
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XIMG_7044.jpg
XIMG_7044.jpg		 Homes Along the River
Homes Along the River		 XIMG_7064.jpg
XIMG_7064.jpg		 XIMG_7082.jpg
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XIMG_7090.jpg		 XIMG_7093.jpg
XIMG_7093.jpg		 XIMG_7104.jpg
XIMG_7104.jpg		 XIMG_7107.jpg
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XIMG_7110.jpg		 Smokehouse
Smokehouse		 XIMG_7134.jpg
XIMG_7134.jpg		 XIMG_7141.jpg
XIMG_7141.jpg
Perm
Perm		 Fellow Travellers Stocking Up
Fellow Travellers Stocking Up		 XIMG_7174.jpg
XIMG_7174.jpg		 Perm
Perm
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XIMG_7162.jpg		 XIMG_7165.jpg
XIMG_7165.jpg		 XIMG_7185.jpg
XIMG_7185.jpg		 Balezino
Balezino
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XIMG_7196.jpg		 Linda
Linda		 XIMG_7205.jpg
XIMG_7205.jpg		 XIMG_7206.jpg
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XIMG_7211.jpg		 Marshes East of the Volga River
Marshes East of the Volga River		 Volga River
Volga River		 Church in Nizhny Novgorod
Church in Nizhny Novgorod
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XIMG_7243.jpg		 XIMG_7246.jpg
XIMG_7246.jpg		 Commuters in Gorky
Commuters in Gorky		 Railroad Museum
Railroad Museum
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XIMG_7265.jpg		 XIMG_7274.jpg
XIMG_7274.jpg		 Power Station
Power Station		 XIMG_7279.jpg
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Vladimir
Vladimir		 Dormition Cathedral
Dormition Cathedral		 XIMG_7284.jpg
XIMG_7284.jpg		 XIMG_7293.jpg
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Guest 08-Oct-2010 21:39
Fascinating look at backdoor Russia. Must have been quite an adventure.
Luis Curran18-Apr-2009 03:09
S A L - Thank you for your comment. As you can see, I have ammended the quote.
S A L 15-Apr-2009 04:20
Nice pics. Thx for sharing. The quote "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." was by Winston Churchill
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