The Trans-Siberian Railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan. The main route goes from Moscow to Vladivostok via southern Siberia and was built between 1891 and 1916. It´s 5,772 miles long, travels trough 8 time zones and it takes about 7 days to complete its journey, being the 3rd longest continuous service in the world, after the Donetsk-Vladivostok and Moscow-Pyongyang services, both of which follow the Trans-Siberian.
There is a second primary route known as the Trans-Manchurian, which coincides with the Trans-Siberian as far as Tarskaya, about 1000 km east of Lake Baikal. From Tarskaya the Trans-Manchurian goes southeast, via Harbin and Mudanjiang in China's Northeastern Provinces, joining with the main route in Ussuriysk just north of Vladivostok. This is the shortest and the oldest rail route to Vladivostok.
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