No. 6 train Moscow - Ulaanbataar on the platform next door. Running at the beginning of the "Rossiya" behind and passed him then, what an Italian and a Korean woman later saved the holiday.
The train is packed from bottom to top with clothes of all kinds, and to present the necessary mannequins. The train into a station, a stand the dealers already on the doors and waving with the goods. And actually, people are waiting on the track to great shopping.
stop in Kirov. The babushkas at the stations will not be tolerated anywhere, then you have to sometimes absurd prices stock up at kiosks.
stop in Barabinsk. All these gammlig dressed people come out of the train, they are not beggars. Even officers of the army after the initial exchange the uniform for balloon silk.
Lake Baikal. Previously rode the train to Port Baikal and was then transported by ferry across the lake. After the Russo-Japanese War beginning of the 20th Century, they came on it that this is not the best solution and noted the construction of the Zirkumbaikalbahn addressed. Certainly the most beautiful scenic section, hardly much birch and mountain views.
river between Lake Baikal and Ulan-Ude.
stop in Jerofei-Pavlovich (named after Jerofei Chabarow, the conqueror of Russia's East). With the distance to Moscow takes the state from the stations. Paved roads are a rarity, the population leads a poor life.
bridge over the Amur, a few kilometers from Khabarovsk. Additionally, there is a single-track tunnel that they built for strategic reasons, after the breach between Soviet Union and China.
