VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA: The terminal point of the Trans-Siberian Railway

The “Rossiya” train arrives in Vladivostok – the terminal point of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the final destination of the 9,288-kilometer-long trip throughout the country. It is symbolic that the “younger brother” of Moscow’s Yaroslavsky Railway Station, designed by architect Fyodor Schechtel, is located next to the city’s Marine passenger terminal. Behind it, you can see grey steel navy ships frozen in the Golden Horn Bay. The military post on the bank of the bay, that is sheltered from all the winds, was established in 1860 by the crew of the Russian ship Manchoo. For more than a century since then, Vladivostok has been a personification of the power and inviolability of the Russian borders on the Pacific.