by Oliver | Dec 10, 2015 | Trans-Siberian Railway, Travel Posts |
Both Irkutsk and Ulan Ude are cities that rest on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They share common elements of the cities I have visited so far along the way. There seems to always be a Lenin Street with a monument to him. Monument to Lenin in Irkutsk Monument to Lenin...
by Oliver | Dec 6, 2015 | Trans-Siberian Railway, Travel Posts |
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Siberia any more…” – Dorothy from Wizard of Oz…At least this is what Dorothy would have said had she stumbled by Lake Baikal on her Trans-Siberian trip. After a while the harsh, barren, snow-covered land dotted with...
by Oliver | Dec 2, 2015 | Trans-Siberian Railway, Travel Posts |
Image retrieved from shared post on Facebook One important thing this trip is starting to make me realize is that we have removed too much sociology from history. That is to say we often discuss modern history without enough reflection on society. This approach makes...
by Oliver | Nov 27, 2015 | Trans-Siberian Railway, Travel Posts |
Perm 36 Guard House Me inside part of the Punishment Barracks Perm 36, known as the Memorial Center of Political Repression, is a former forced labor camp located near Perm, Russia. This camp was part of the system of prisons during the time of the Soviet Union, which...
by Oliver | Nov 26, 2015 | Trans-Siberian Railway, Travel Posts |
Church On Blood This church is the very reason I stopped in Yekaterinburg. The Church On Blood was something that I remembered from high school. It is where the last Czar of Russia and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. The site used to be a house that the...
by Oliver | Nov 22, 2015 | Trans-Siberian Railway, Travel Posts |
I took the train from Kazan to Yekaterinburg, which involved crossing two zones. Yekaterinburg is roughly one-thousand miles from Moscow and sits in the Ural mountains on the continental divide. I spent the afternoon with my new friend Jiang. Jiang is a Physics PHD...
