IntroductionWelcome back. I'm saying this because I haven't uploaded a lot. I will try my best to release a new episode every week. This episode is about Russia's High Speed Rail and the Trans-Siberian Railway. This means this episode will be kinda split into two parts. We are going to see if Russia has a High Speed Rail network and the evolution of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Also, HAPPY HALOWEEN! Does Russia have a High Speed Rail network?Surprisingly, Russia has High Speed Rail. They have many routes that even come from Helsinki in Finland. The different routes that Russia have are the Sapsan train which goes from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the Alstom train which goes from Helsinki to St. Petersburg, the Swift train to Nizhny Novgorod, the Moscow to Berlin Swift train, the Desiro train from St. Petersburg to Veliky Novgorod and the Nevsky express. These are all the different routes of High Speed Rail in Russia. The first one is called the Sapsan train and it is the oldest. The other lines are much, much newer. The History of the Trans-Siberian RailwayThe Trans-Siberian Railway is one of the longest train routes in the world covering all of Russia and even some of China, Mongolia and South Korea. It took a long time, a lot of people and a lot of money to construct the Trans-Siberian Railway. It started construction in 1891 and ended in 1904. This means the link is very old but new routes have been added after its completion. The railway was only built to connect Moscow and the European part of Russia to Siberia. It was hard to transport goods by boat because during the winter, ferry boats were not usable and horses were slow on the iced rivers. Building roads and maniting them would be even harder and nobody wanted to do anything with roads so the only other way was to build a railway. Many projects were proposed and even different ones were all declined and took them 10 years to finally find a project everybody wanted. A European financer named Baron Henri Hottinguer who said the project would cost 35 million pounds. To create the rail network, 62,000 men were hired. What the Trans-Siberian is nowAfter over 100 years, the network had some changes. The route goes from Moscow to Vladivostok which are both in Russia but the rail goes through Beijing and Mongolia as well. (Vladivostok is at the very edge of Russia next to Japan). New tours and routes by different companies are being made all the time. One company is selling a ticket to the Trans-Siberian and is also saying they have luxury cabins and everything. Sadly, there are a lot of fake scams and the safest is to buy your ticket at the Moscow station a few days before. Because I don't live there, I can't tell you the price but the Sapsan train is very cheap. It is only around $200 per person two ways.
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