Cold Siberia

Snowing in Siberia

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October 11th 2012
<span><span>I thought travelling on the train for 36 hours between Ulaanbaatar and Irtusk would be dull and uneventful, how wrong could I be. <span>Last night (10th October) I arrived at Ulaanbaatar train station at 8.30pm. Waiting to depart in the station was a huge train with with multiple carriages, clearly the trans - Siberian express. Walking to the front of the train I p ... 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