Photos - Russia
The first part of our train journey in 2002 took us from St. Petersburg to Irkutsk by train. It was our first visit to Russia so we really wanted to spend some days in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The train journey to Siberia took three days and there we stayed a couple if days in Irkutsk and around Lake Baikal.
Our interest for the Eastern Block countries started when we visited Czechoslovakia just after the fall of the iron curtain, but it became a real hobby after we travelled trough Russia in 2002. We had panned to do the Trans Siberian Express that year and also planned a visit of St. Petersburg and Moscow for some days. In St. Petersburg we stayed in the Moscow hotel, a typical example of a giant Soviet tourist hotel, only surpassed by Hotel Russia were we stayed in Moscow. We did not have much time, so were restricted to the general tourist attractions of St. Petersburg like the Hermitage Museum, Nevsky Prospect, Neva cruise, Church of the Saviour, Peter and Paul fortress etc. We only saw a minuscule part of what Moscow has to offer, like the Kremlin, Red Square, Lenin Mausoleum, State University, some Metro stations, October Square Lenin statue and some other things. We have been back in Moscow since 2002 and probably will need to go many times more to see all the important sides! In Moscow were boarded the Trans Siberia Express and had 4 fantastic days on the train, enjoying the company of the Russians and seeing the endless landscape go by. We got off the train in the Siberian capital Irkutsk were we stayed some days. We stayed a night with a local family on Lake Baikal were we made an adventurous trip with a Hydrofoil to the other side of the lake.
St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg Airport border

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Border procedures in a Soviet era arrivals hall in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg - Hotel Moscow

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The Moscow Hotel in St. Petersburg with room for 1400 guests
St. Petersburg - Hotel Moscow

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Giant tourist Hotel Moscow in Leningrad during Soviet times
St. Petersburg - Hotel Moscow

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One of the long corridors of the Moscow Hotel in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg - Hotel Moscow

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Our St. Petersburg room in the giant communist era Hotel Moscow
St. Petersburg - Hotel Moscow

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Hotel Moscow room card with Metro map and picture of a hydrofoil
St. Petersburg - Hotel Moscow

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English flyer with two nice ladies for the Hotel Moscow Onix club
St. Petersburg - Hotel Moscow

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Russian flyer with sexy lady for the Hotel Moscow Onix club
St. Petersburg - Cruiser Aurora

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Cruiser Aurora started the storming of the Winter palace in 1917
St. Petersburg - Cruiser Aurora

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Soviet star on the stern of the famous Battle Cruiser Aurora
St. Petersburg - Government building

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Orwellian style Soviet government building in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg - Winter palace

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The St. Petersburg winter palace seen from the Neva river
St. Petersburg - Winter palace

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The St. Petersburg winter palace now houses the Hermitage museum
St. Petersburg - Peter and Paul fortress

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Locals enjoying the city beach of the Peter and Paul fortress
St. Petersburg - Peter and Paul fortress

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Sand sculpture on the beach of the Peter and Paul fortress
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