To travel from Ust-Kut, where my 2,300-mile journey began, is no simple thing. Moscow and the government of the SakhaRepublic (in Russian, Yakutia), a semiautonomous region within greater Siberia, ...
Embark on a 40-hour train journey from Almaty, Kazakhstan to Novosibirsk, Russia, followed by a 5-hour bus ride to Kemerovo, Siberia. This trip marks my first return to Russia in over 9 months and my ...