From Moscow to Ulan-Ude on the trans-siberian train :
Suzdal, Irkustk, Listvyanka and Lake Baikal, Ivolga

Moscow : The Red Square (right : St Basil's Cathedral / Sobor Vasilia Blazhennogo
middle, Lenin Mausoleum, left : the Kremlin walls)
(see more photos by night here, cliquez ici pour d'autres photos de nuit)

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Moscow : the Bolshoi Theater

Orthodox Church in Vladimir (one of the towns of the "Golden Ring" near Moscow)

suzdal open air museum

Suzdal : house and windmill in the open-air ethnographic museum

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Church in Yaroslav

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view from the Trans-siberian train, somewhere between Omsk and Krasnoyarsk

station trans-siberian train

A stop of the trans-siberian train : locals selling food to travellers

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Irkutsk : wooden houses

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village of Listvyanka on the shore of Lake Baikal

Ulan-Ude (Buryat Rep.): the biggest figurehead in the world (Lenin)
(more statues of Lenin here)

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Ulan-Ude : wooden houses along a tree-lined street

ivolga datsan buryat buddhist temple

Buddhist temple (datsan) near Ivolga
This region of Russia is populated by Buryat people, related to Mongolian people,
and they follow tibetan buddhism. Welcome to Asia !

From Moscow to Ulan-Ude on the trans-siberian train : Suzdal, Irkustk, Listvyanka and Lake Baikal, Ivolga

From Moscow to Ulan-Ude on the trans-siberian train :
Suzdal, Irkustk, Listvyanka and Lake Baikal, Ivolga