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A R C T I C

Kaliningrad

AltaiskGorno-

UstyugVeliky

(Kirov)Vyatka

Vyborg

Sochi on-DonRostov-

Yeniseysk

Barnaul Novokuznetsk

Surgut

Orenburg

CheboksaryKursk

Bryansk

TverVologda

PskovNovgorod

Petrozavodsk

Abakan

Tyumen

Kurgan

Nizhnevartovsk

Kemerovo

Syktyvkar

Ufa

IzhevskUlyanovskVoronezh

Tambov

Ryazan

TulaOryol

Suzdal

Astana

Aktogay

Vorkuta

Igarka

NorilskDudinka

Semey

Petropavl Mariinsk

Tobolsk

(Petropavlovsk)

Vladimir

Vilnius

Dikson

Tomsk

Novosibirsk

(Semipalatinsk)

Urumqi

Murmansk

Arkhangelsk

Nizhny TagilKazanPerm

Amderma

Helsinki

Stockholm

Tallinn

Oslo

MoscowKyiv

Minsk

R‹ga

St Petersburg

Nizhny Novgorod

Yaroslavl

YekaterinburgChelyabinsk

Orsk

Magnitogorsk

Samara

Balkhash

Dushanbe

Bishkek

Nukus

BukharaTashkent

SaratovVolgograd

Grozny

Astrakhan

Tbilisi

Baku

Tehran

Yerevan

Tashauz

Ashkabad

Kabul

Syzran

Almaty

Karaganda

Omsk

Salekhard

Khanty-Mansiysk

MountainsAltai

Ura

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(4506m)Belukha

(5642m)Mt Elbrus

CaucasusM

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Zagros Mountains

40°N

A R C T I C

80°E60°E

40°E

20°E70°N

60°N

BalkhashLake

LakeLadoga

Sea ofAzov

AralSea

Svalbard

Land

Novaya Zemlya

Franz Josef

PeninsulaKola

PeninsulaGydansky

PeninsulaYamal

TuranianPlateu

Tarim Basin

SiberianLowland

SeaBaltic

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B A R E N T S S E A

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Dnieper

Volga

Volga

BlackSea

SeaCaspian

SeaNorwegian

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Kama

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Ural

Syr Darya

Irtysh

FINLAND

NORWAY

R U S S I A

ESTONIAPOLAND

LITHUANIA

LATVIA

SWEDEN

KAZAKHSTANAZERBAIJAN

TURKMENISTAN

CHINA

RUSSIA

MOLDOVAUKRAINE

BELARUSSLOVAK

GERMANY

BELGIUM

UZBEKISTAN

TAJIKISTAN

ARMENIA

GEORGIA

I R A N

PAKISTANAFGHANISTAN

KYRGYZSTAN

MoscowCulture and the ancient

Kremlin

St PetersburgGrand masters on

the Neva River

Siberia's best nightlife & varied museums

TobolskMagnificent kremlin andatmospheric lower town

UlaanbaatarTraditional Mongolian culture

meets the modern

Lake BaikalRussia’s sacred

seaNovosibirsk

Trans-Siberian RailwayO C E A N

Tatar Strait

Sea ofJapan

YellowSea

East China

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rbiS e

Slyudyanka

Harbin(Hƒ’›rb¸n)

Severomuysk UgalNovy

Nakhodka

Zamyn-Üüd Èrlián

Kyakhta

Nerchinsk H‰ihé Fuyuan

SuifenheM†nzhŸul¨

Zabaikalsk

SükhbaatarNaushki

Neryungri

Sakhalinsk

NovokuznetskKyzyl

Abakan

Okhotsk

Khatanga

Tiksi

Blagoveshchensk

Shƒnh†iguƒn

Tiƒnj¸n

Zhangjiakou

Sainshand

Dàtóng

Vanino

GavanSovetskayaKomsomolsk-

na-Amure

Birobidzhan

Ussuriysk

Tynda

Chita

Darkhan

SeverobaikalskTayshetMariinsk

Magadan

Yakutsk

LenskOlekminsk

Dikson

Nordvik

Khabarovsk

VladivostokChángch¥n

SeoulPyongyang

Yuzhno-

Ulan-UdeIrkutsk

Hohhot

B›ij¸ngBaotou

Ulaanbaatar

Bratsk

Krasnoyarsk

Yumen Jiayuguan Qingdao

Sh›nyáng

MOUNTAINSUDOKAN

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Mountains

Yablonovy

Stanovoy

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Kolym

sky

Sikh

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Alin

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Western

Sayan

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70°N80

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160°E

140°E

100°E120°E

80°E

40°N

BaikalLakeIsland

Olkhon

WrangelIsland

IslandSakhalin

NovosibirskieIslandsSevernaya

Zemlya

PeninsulaKamchatka

TaymyrPeninsula

PlateauPutorana

SIBERIANPLATEAU

CENTRAL

Plain

BasinGreat

DesertGobi

Manchurian

E A S T S I B E R I A N

GulfShelekhov

Sea of

S E A

Kolyma

Lena

S E A

L A P T E V

Okhotsk

Amur

Ussuri

Amur

Argu

n

TunguskaNizhnyaya

Indigirka

Yenisey

Huang

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Lena

R U S S I A

JAPAN

C H I N AM O N G O L I A

NORTHKOREA

SOUTH KOREA

Baikal-Amur Mainline

Trans-SiberianTrans-MongolianTrans-Manchurian

RAIL ROUTES

UralOther

Gorkhi-Terelj National ParkGlorious rock formations and

green valleys

Olkhon IslandSpellbinding landscapes and

epic myths

Barguzin ValleyRemote and romantically

timeless valley

VladivostokRussia’s principal city

of the east

BěijīngExplore China’s capital

by bike

ShānhǎiguānThe Great Wall meets

the sea

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