For those who don't have time to travel a week on the longest railway in the world. 1. We depart from Yaroslavsky Station, which resembles a fairy tale mansion. The building was constructed in the 1900s according to the design of Fyodor Schechtel, a master of Russian style and modernism. 2. After a day of travel, we cross the "backbone of Russia". The capital of the Urals, Yekaterinburg, a major industrial city with a million residents, is the birthplace of Boris Yeltsin and Russian rock. 3. Welcome to Western Siberia and Russia’s oil capital — Tyumen. And its churches in the unusual "Siberian baroque" style. 4. In Omsk, Fyodor Dostoevsky spent four years in exile. Also, it has the shortest metro in the world — with just one station. 5. Trans-Siberian builders had to construct a bridge over the Ob River. Around it and the railway station, the future million-strong city of Novosibirsk began to develop. 6. We pass through the mighty Yenisei and the city from the ten-ruble banknote. Here, there is also a natural wonder — the "Krasnoyarsk Stolby" park. 7. For an hour and a half, the train travels right along the lake shore from Slyudyanka station, which is remarkable only for its incredible station made of white and pink marble. Two large cities near Lake Baikal are Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude. In the first, the Decembrists, who rebelled against the tsar in 1825, were exiled. And in the second, the capital of Buryatia, there is a unique monument — a huge head of Lenin. 8. After Baikal, the traveler is met by mountains. Many mountains. Between the stations Arkhara and Izvestkovaya lies the Maly Khingan Ridge. Over a distance of 154 km, there are 7 tunnels, the longest of which is more than 2 km. 9. We are at the very border with China. The Khabarovsk Bridge over the Amur River is one of the longest in the country and is called nothing less than the "Amur Miracle". We are almost at our destination. 10. We have reached the end of the journey! Congratulations. The station in Vladivostok is a replica of the one in Moscow. Thus, the architectural appearance of the Trans-Siberian Railway is complete.