Trans Manchurian Moscow to Beijing - Part two
August 16th 2008 09/08/08 7.30am.
I wake to see endless rolling silver birch and fir forests again. Grey skies. The lovely sound of the train and the constant gentle rocking movement. I immediately think of the sad woman in Yaroslavsky station last night.
Kirov - 12.17pm 957km from Moscow.
(Kirov, renamed in 1934 in honour of Communist Leader assassinated earlier in the same year. Sergie Kirov was at on
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