Photos from Russie (trip 2000-2001)
Фотографии из России

The Golden Ring (Russian: Золото́е кольцо́) is a ring of cities northeast of Moscow, which feature unique monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th–18th centuries, including kremlins, monasteries, cathedrals, and churches withh typical onion domes. After visiting Yaroslav, Suzdal, Vladimir, I took the trans-siberian train (Транссиб in Russian), getting off in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude before continuing to Mongolia.

see also more photos from 1999 (Moscow and St Petersburg)
and more photos from 2005 (from Samara to the Black Sea via Moscow)

Moscow : The Red Square (right : St Basil's Cathedral / Sobor Vasilia Blazhennogo
middle, Lenin Mausoleum, left : the Kremlin walls)
(see more photos by night here, cliquez ici pour d'autres photos de nuit)

Moscow : the Bolshoi Theater

Orthodox Church in Vladimir (one of the towns of the "Golden Ring" near Moscow)

Suzdal : house and windmill in the open-air ethnographic museum

Church in Yaroslav

view from the Trans-siberian train, somewhere between Omsk and Krasnoyarsk

A stop of the trans-siberian train : locals selling food to travellers

Irkutsk : wooden houses

village of Listvyanka on the shore of Lake Baikal

Ulan-Ude (Buryat Rep.): the biggest figurehead in the world (Lenin)
(more statues of Lenin)

Ulan-Ude : wooden houses along a tree-lined street

Buddhist temple (datsan) near Ivolga
This region of Russia is populated by Buryat people, related to Mongolian people,
and they follow tibetan buddhism. Welcome to Asia !

see also more photos from 1999 (Moscow and St Petersburg)
and more photos from 2005 (from Samara to the Black Sea via Moscow)

Russia was part of the 2000-2001 trip

read about this part of my trip
lire sur cette partie du voyage
Travel story : Reservation for a train ticket
Travel story : The border crossing Russia-Mongolia
Anecdote : Réservation d'un ticket de train
Anecdote : Passage de la frontière Russie-Mongolie

• Reservation for a train ticket in Russia
  
• Naushki : border crossing Russia - Mongolia
  
• Traditions in Mongolia
  
• Markets in South China
  
• Kicked off the bus in the mountains (Sichuan)
  
• The bus driver who tried to cheat (Xinjiang)
  
• The forbiden valley (Xinjiang, China)
  
• Laos : 12 hrs for 200 km
  
• China : travelling by bus and by train
  
• Pakistan : hot and cold on the way to Iran
  

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