A R C T I C O C E A N Gulf Ob A R C T I C Kaliningrad Altaisk Gorno- Ustyug Veliky (Kirov) Vyatka Vyborg Sochi on-Don Rostov- Yeniseysk Barnaul Novokuznetsk Surgut Orenburg Cheboksary Kursk Bryansk Tver Vologda Pskov Novgorod Petrozavodsk Tyumen Kurgan Nizhnevartovsk Kemerovo Syktyvkar Ufa Izhevsk Ulyanovsk Voronezh Tambov Ryazan Tula Oryol Suzdal Astana Aktogay Vorkuta Igarka Norilsk Dudinka Semey Petropavl Mariinsk Tobolsk (Petropavlovsk) Vladimir Vilnius Dikson Tomsk Novosibirsk (Semipalatinsk) Urumqi Murmansk Arkhangelsk Nizhny Tagil Kazan Perm Amderma Helsinki Stockholm Tallinn Oslo Moscow Kyiv Minsk R‹ga St Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod Yaroslavl Yekaterinburg Chelyabinsk Orsk Magnitogorsk Samara Balkhash Dushanbe Bishkek Nukus Bukhara Tashkent Saratov Volgograd Grozny Astrakhan Tbilisi Baku Tehran Yerevan Tashauz Ashkabad Kabul Syzran Almaty Karaganda Omsk Salekhard Khanty-Mansiysk Mountains Altai Ural Mountains (4506m) Belukha (5642m) Mt Elbrus Caucasus Mountains Zagros Mountains 40°N A R C T I C 80°E 60°E 40°E 20°E 70°N 60°N Balkhash Lake Lake Ladoga Sea of Azov Aral Sea Svalbard Land Novaya Zemlya Franz Josef Peninsula Kola Peninsula Gydansky Peninsula Yamal Turanian Plateu Tarim Basin Siberian Lowland Sea Baltic Amu Darya K A R A S E A Yenisey Irtysh Ob N O R T H S E A B A R E N T S S E A Pechora I Dnieper Volga Volga Black Sea Sea Caspian Sea Norwegian Ob Severnaya Dvina Kama Volga Ishim Ural Syr Darya Irtysh FINLAND NORWAY R U S S I A ESTONIA LITHUANIA LATVIA SWEDEN KAZAKHSTAN AZERBAIJAN TURKMENISTAN CHINA RUSSIA A UKRAINE BELARUS UZBEKISTAN TAJIKISTAN ARMENIA GEORGIA I R A N PAKISTAN AFGHANISTAN KYRGYZSTAN Moscow Culture and the ancient Kremlin St Petersburg Grand masters on the Neva River Siberia's best nightlife & varied museums Tobolsk Magnificent kremlin and atmospheric lower town Ulaanbaatar Traditional Mongolian culture meets the modern Lake Baikal Russia’s sacred sea Novosibirsk Trans-Siberian Railway O C E A N Tatar Strait Sea of Japan Yellow Sea East China a i r b i S e Slyudyanka Harbin (Hƒ’›rb¸n) Severomuysk Ugal Novy Nakhodka Zamyn-Üüd Èrlián Kyakhta Nerchinsk H‰ihé Fuyuan Suifenhe M†nzhŸul¨ Zabaikalsk Sükhbaatar Naushki Neryungri Sakhalinsk Kyzyl Abakan Okhotsk Khatanga Tiksi Blagoveshchensk Shƒnh†iguƒn Tiƒnj¸n Zhangjiakou Sainshand Dàtóng Vanino Gavan Sovetskaya Komsomolsk- na-Amure Birobidzhan Ussuriysk Tynda Chita Darkhan Severobaikalsk Tayshet Magadan Yakutsk Lensk Olekminsk Nordvik Khabarovsk Vladivostok Chángch¥n Seoul Pyongyang Yuzhno- Ulan-Ude Irkutsk Hohhot B›ij¸ng Baotou Ulaanbaatar Bratsk Krasnoyarsk Yumen Jiayuguan Qingdao Sh›nyáng MOUNTAINS UDOKAN Mountains Mountains Yablonovy Stanovoy Mountains Kolymsky Sikhote Alin Mountains (4668m) Klyuchevskaya t s n i a o M n u V k s n y o h k r a y e Mountains Western Sayan C I R C L E 50°N 70°N 80°N 160°E 140°E 100°E 120°E 40°N Baikal Lake Island Olkhon Wrangel Island Island Sakhalin Novosibirskie Islands Severnaya Zemlya Peninsula Kamchatka Taymyr Peninsula Plateau Putorana SIBERIAN PLATEAU CENTRAL Plain Basin Great Desert Gobi Manchurian E A S T S I B E R I A N Gulf Shelekhov Sea of S E A Kolyma Lena S E A L A P T E V Okhotsk Amur Ussuri Amur Argun Tunguska Nizhnyaya Indigirka Yenisey Huang He Lena R U S S I A JAPAN C H I N A M O N G O L I A NORTH KOREA SOUTH KOREA Baikal-Amur Mainline Trans-Siberian Trans-Mongolian Trans-Manchurian RAIL ROUTES Ural Other Gorkhi-Terelj National Park Glorious rock formations and green valleys Olkhon Island Spellbinding landscapes and epic myths Barguzin Valley Remote and romantically timeless valley Vladivostok Russia’s principal city of the east Běijīng Explore China’s capital by bike Shānhǎiguān The Great Wall meets the sea 0 1000 km 0 600 miles