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 ...
Frazier's first trip -- 9,000 miles in five weeks and two days -- was in Kennan's footsteps, west to east, starting at the Baltic and finishing at the Pacific on, of all days, Sept. 11, 2001. As a ...