Editing Trans-Siberian Railway (section)

== Route ==
[[File:Transsib international.svg|300px|thumb|Trans-Siberian line in red; [[Baikal–Amur Mainline]] in green]]

The railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian line that connects many large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. At a Moscow–Vladivostok track length of {{convert|9,289|km|mi|abbr=off|sp=us}},<ref name="MoscowVlad">{{Cite web |title=CIS railway timetable, route No. 002, Moscow-Vladivostok |url=http://www.poezda.net/en/train_timetable?tr_code=898975%3A%C0 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5lkUp91UV?url=http://www.poezda.net/en/train_timetable?tr_code=898975%3A%C0 |archive-date=3 December 2009}}</ref> it spans a record eight [[time zone]]s.<ref>Moscow is at UTC+3, Vladivostok is at UTC+10; therefore the line passes through 8 time zones; see [[Time Zone Map|map]]</ref> Taking eight days to complete the journey, it was the third-longest single continuous service in the world,{{when|date=August 2023}} after the Moscow–[[Pyongyang]] service {{convert|10267|km|0|abbr=out|sp=us}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=CIS railway timetable, route No. 002, Moscow-Pyongyang |url=http://www.poezda.net/en/train_timetable?tr_code=881437%3A%C1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406164323/https://www.poezda.net/en/train_timetable?tr_code=881437%3A%EF%BF%BD |archive-date=6 April 2020}}</ref> and the former<!-- (as of 2009, was apparently still active) --> [[Kyiv]] (Kiev)–Vladivostok service {{convert|11085|km|0|abbr=out|sp=us}},<ref>{{Cite web |title=CIS railway timetable, route No. 350, Kiev-Vladivostok |url=http://www.poezda.net/en/train_timetable?tr_code=907081%3A%D4 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406164332/https://www.poezda.net/en/train_timetable?tr_code=907081%3A%EF%BF%BD |archive-date=6 April 2020}}</ref> both of which also follow the Trans-Siberian for much of their routes.<ref name="britannica">{{Cite web |title=Trans-Siberian Railroad |date=December 7, 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Siberian-Railroad}}</ref>

The main route begins in Moscow at [[Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal|Yaroslavsky Vokzal]], runs through [[Yaroslavl]] or [[Chelyabinsk]], [[Omsk]], [[Novosibirsk]], [[Krasnoyarsk]], [[Irkutsk]], [[Ulan-Ude]], [[Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai|Chita]], and [[Khabarovsk]] to [[Vladivostok]] via southern Siberia. A second primary route is the Trans-Manchurian, which coincides with the Trans-Siberian east of Chita as far as Tarskaya (a stop {{convert|12|km|0|abbr=on}} east of Karymskoye, in [[Chita Oblast]]), about {{convert|1000|km|0|abbr=on}} east of [[Lake Baikal]]. From Tarskaya the Trans-Manchurian heads southeast, via [[Harbin]] [[Harbin–Manzhouli railway]] and [[Mudanjiang]] [[Harbin–Suifenhe railway]] in China's [[Manchuria|Northeastern provinces]] (from where a connection to Beijing is used by one of the Moscow–Beijing trains), joining the main route in [[Ussuriysk]] just north of [[Vladivostok]].

The third primary route is the [[Trans-Mongolian Railway]], which coincides with the Trans-Siberian as far as [[Ulan-Ude]] on [[Lake Baikal]]'s eastern shore. From Ulan-Ude the Trans-Mongolian heads south to [[Ulaanbaatar]] before making its way southeast to Beijing. In 1991, a fourth route running further to the north was finally completed, after more than five decades of sporadic work. Known as the [[Baikal–Amur Mainline]] (BAM), this recent extension departs from the Trans-Siberian line at [[Taishet]] several hundred miles west of [[Lake Baikal]] and passes the lake at its northernmost extremity. It crosses the [[Amur River]] at [[Komsomolsk-na-Amure]] (north of [[Khabarovsk]]), and reaches the [[Tatar Strait]] at [[Sovetskaya Gavan]].<ref name="britannica" />