The big red train ride 2004 – Transsiberia

The big red train ride 2004 – Transsiberia

August 2004

This longest train ride in the world: Den Haag to Vladivostok, over 12.000 kms by rail. This black and white series forms a visual journey along the tracks to Vladivostok, focussing on daily life aboard the trains.

Den Haag – Hannover – Warsaw – Minsk – Moscow – Novosibirsk – Irkutsk – Vladivostok by Train

[Leica M6, Delta 400]

• Friendly Russian couple at the Pushkin Park, Moscow
• Interview with the Belgian singer Helmut Lotti in front of the Bolsjoi Theater Moscow
• Sigarette lady
• Eastbound train to Novosibirsk
• Travelling "Platskartni" to Novosibirsk
• Staring at the sun
• Diner onboard the train
• Our fellow passenger Sveta and our "provodnitsa"
• On the road to Schachta, Kuzbaz Region
• Around the village of Schachta, Kuzbaz Region
• Lena at her grandmothers' kitchen, village of Schachta, Kuzbaz Region
• Local youth in the village of Schachta, Kuzbaz Region
• Grandmothers' kitchen, village of Schachta, Kuzbaz Region
• Grandmothers' home, village of Schachta, Kuzbaz Region
• A stop on the way to Irkutsk
• Endless landscapes rolling by
• Irkutsk, fisherman at the Angara River
• Begger in Irkutsk
• Cola is everywhere, Irkutsk
• The Sjaman-rock, Ohklon Island, Lake Baikal
• Local workers at Ohklon Island, Lake Baikal
• Local dog, Ohklon Island, Lake Baikal
• A Buryat worker, Ohklon, Lake Baikal
• Dining car
• Stop on our way to Vladivostok
• Sergei, Beer and a Fish
• Our lovely provodnitsa
• View through our windows
• Endless trains with timber moving Westbound
• Cutie
• Lenin shows the way, Vladivostok
• Skaters on a memorial, Vladivostok
• Chessplayers on the boardwalk of Vladivostok
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• Yelesov, our driver in Kamshatka
• The japanese sea, Petropavlovsk, Kamshatka