Our snowmobile under a bridge of the abandoned 501 Salekhard - Igarka Railway of Death, Nadym Region, Siberia

A pet project of Stalin's in the middle of nowhere which claimed the lives of thousands of Gulag concentration camp victims, this railway was abandoned when, after its creator's death, everyone realised there was no demand for it whatsoever. It was immediately abandoned and destroyed by the elements.

Around and about in Arctic Siberia

January 26th 2012
The train took us out of Moscow's suburbia with its usual rapidity and into the land of snow-coated wooden cottages, picket fences and endless forest that would greet our every glance through the train window for the next forty eight hours before thinning out into sub-Arctic forest tundra on our journey's third and final day. We passed Rostov Veliky, turrets on the gentle, whitewashed wal ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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