Reporting from Moscow — Beyond Irkutsk, a city along the Trans-Siberian Railway, my neighbor plunked a sausage and a bottle of Cognac on the table. I dug a Route 66 shot glass from my stash of small ...

After an 80-hour train ride across Russia, we finally reached Vladivostok at the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway. But the adventure didn’t stop there—we explored abandoned Soviet barracks, hiked the ...

Waiting to board the Trans-Siberian Railway at a stop in rural Russia. Riding the Trans-Siberian Railway is one of those trips that elicits two distinct responses from friends and family. The first, ...

American author Lisa Dickey has ridden the famed Trans-Siberian Railway four times over four decades, seeing the train — and the country — transform over time. Her new book about those journeys, Bears ...

A single bridge in central Russia connects the two halves of the country’s railway network—making an attractive target for a Ukrainian attack.

A journey on the Trans Siberian Railway is often hailed as the trip of a lifetime, mostly because the 6,152 mile route between Moscow and Vladivostok is believed to be the longest you can take on just ...

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The Trans-Siberian Railway isn’t run like Eurail — you can’t buy just one pass and hop on and off the train. If you’re traveling from Ulan Bator to Moscow and want to get off to see Lake Baikal as I ...

Wednesday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which was built by Russian Tsar Alexander III between 1891 and 1916. The railway, which was ...

If a trip to Siberia in a third-class train cabin during the dead of winter sounds like your cup of tea, well, you might get along with Morning Edition's David Greene. And if you'd rather pass, don't ...