Reporting from Moscow — Beyond Irkutsk, a city along the Trans-Siberian Railway, my neighbor plunked a sausage and a bottle of Cognac on the table. I dug a Route 66 shot glass from my stash of small ...

American author Lisa Dickey has ridden the famed Trans-Siberian Railway four times over four decades, seeing the train — and the country — transform over time. Her new book about those journeys, Bears ...

The first time I rode the Trans-Siberian Railway was back in 1989, before the Soviet Union collapsed. I’d been working at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and upon leaving my job decided that instead of ...

It had the makings of a military thriller. In November, Ukrainian operatives carried out closely sequenced attacks on critical sections of the Baikal-Amur Railway, which runs through eastern Russia ...

One train journey takes a staggering 167 hours to complete, with the railway spanning eight time zones to make it the longest in the world ...

A journey on the Trans Siberian Railway is often hailed as the trip of a lifetime, mostly because the 6,152 mile route between Moscow and Vladivostok is believed to be the longest you can take on just ...

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Waiting to board the Trans-Siberian Railway at a stop in rural Russia. Riding the Trans-Siberian Railway is one of those trips that elicits two distinct responses from friends and family. The first, ...

Jeff and I settled into our compartment in Car 15 of the Zarengold train that would take us across European Russia and Siberia. As we had opted for Standard Class, we were to share the compartment ...

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of stories about local resident Luc Pols’ trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Now the real train rides begin. After our debacle at the Moscow subway, we ...

I’ll bet that when Craig Hester, head of the Détente Watch Group, set out in 1999 to distribute and retail Russian and Eastern European watches such as Sturmanskie and Vostok-Europe, he had no idea ...