Dossier – Russia, Europe’s subconscious
In his reportage, photojournalist Sergey Kozmin of the American Redux Agency, describes the real Russia through its common people, such as in these images dedicated to the mythical railway that crosses Eurasia.
In his reportage, photojournalist Sergey Kozmin of the American Redux Agency, describes the real Russia through its common people, such as in these images dedicated to the mythical railway that crosses Eurasia. Over 9,000 km long, the Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest stretch of railroad in the world. First opened in 1916, it links Moscow with the Far East and the Sea of Japan, running as far as Vladivostok. It crosses two continents, Europe and Russia, stops in 88 cities, crosses 16 rivers and Lake Baikal, the deepest in the world. The average travelling time is a week.
Siberia is a rough landscape that covers over two-thirds of Russia but only contains a third of its population, despite hosting as many as 34 different ethnic groups. It is commonly believed to be still packed with Soviet gulags and damned political dissidents. Some of the more remote stretches of the railroad in Siberia were actually built thanks to the efforts of deportees engaged as forced labour.
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