The Trans-Siberian Railway at the Turn of the Century
Dear railway and travel enthusiast! This set of postcards is inspired by the Trans-Siberian Railway — the longest railway line on the planet (9,288 km).
The Trans-Siberian Railway in these photos isn’t quite modern, however; it was captured at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries—between 1999 and 2004, a quarter of a century ago. At the time, the trains were brightly colored, and there were many old wooden stations along the line, especially in the Urals and Siberia. In this postcard series, we have tried to capture this historical period that has now passed into history.
Postcards from the set (sold individually)
The journey to Siberia and the Far East begins at Komsomolskaya Square in the capital
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A wooden Art Nouveau-style station building at a small Ural railway station
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The “Amur” express train stops; the VL10 electric locomotive with a red star “on its forehead”
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The station square with cars before the era of imported ones
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Bustling trade in the station during the locomotive change
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The monumental train station of the “Capital of Soviet Siberia”
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Siberian Railway Locomotive Depot (1890)
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The station, built of Baikal marble, was constructed in tribute to the opening of the Circum-Baikal Railway
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Back in the 1920s, the state border between the RSFSR and the Far Eastern Republic ran through here
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Bas-reliefs of the most famous exiled “Decembrists”
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The gallery and the openwork bridge over the Ingoda River, with the Trans-Siberian Railway branch line to China
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A cozy wooden station building at the station named after the Russian Cossack explorer Khabarov
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The station building of the former “Tikhonkaya” station, built in the “new center of the Jewish people” (1935)
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A train car of the “Sibiryak” branded train from Moscow to Novosibirsk, painted in its traditional yellow and green colors
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An amazing “hybrid” from the early 2000s—the ED1 commuter electric train
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The final stop on the entire Trans-Siberian Railway; passenger trains do not go any further
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