Task 1.

Moskva - Mitishi **- Pushkino - Sofrino - Khotkovo - Sergiyev Posad - Strunino - Aleksandrov - Rostov-Yaroslavskiy - Yaroslav - Danilov - Lyubim - Buy - Galitch - Antrolovo - Neya - Manturovo - Sharya - Ponazirevo - Shabalino - Svetcha

The route

St. Petersburg - Moscow - Perm - Ekaterinburg - Novosibirsk - Irkutsk
1) Ulan Uday - Vladivostok
2) Harbin - Beijing
3) Ulaanbaatar - Beijing

The routes in more details (1. city/village information, 2. Name of the station [name of the city/village if other], 3. - , 4. Km of the route, 5. Year of station establishment, 6. rivers/lakes/tunnels, 7. information (such as changes in regions, time zones, etc.)

i) Moscow - Yaroslav - Svetcha (817km) - MAP
ii) Svetcha - Perm - Ekaterinburg (997km) - MAP
iii) Ekaterinburg - Tyumer - Omsk (897km) - MAP
iv) Omsk - Novosibirsk - Mariinsk (1002km) - MAP
v) Mariinsk - Krasnoyarsk - Tayshet (802km) - MAP
vi) Tayshet - Irkutsk - Slyudyanka (795km) - MAP
(all in Russian)

Lonely Planet edition arrived!!

I have also quick update, just received latest edition from April 2006!! Finally, let's start with some ideas and play around a bit...;-)

A brochure on Trans-Sib

Here is a brochure that is offered on the trans-sib trip by one company, that does it as organized trip. So I think there could be quite few cool tips of where to stop along the way. :o)

I think we need a good book. For many years, the only book for this trip was The Trans-Siberian Handbook, but now also Lonely Planet has its own, Trans-Siberian Railway. Let me buy one of these books online here from US, to get the best information. I will start posting interesting stuff as soon as I get it. In the meantime we should start getting more information about other cities on the route, information about train/tickets, our budget, length of the trip, side-trips. Please take whatever and share with us. I am looking forward to see all passengers on-board:-) Miso

Miso, would you be so kind to look for the material you already have? It would be great for the rest of us to go through it and thus not to search for material that we already have. How was the rest of your stay in Prague anyways? :o)