<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (October 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian line that connects hundreds of large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia . At a Moscow--Vladivostok track length of 9,289 kilometres (5,772 miles), it spans a record eight time zones . Taking eight days to complete the journey, it is the third - longest single continuous service in the world, after the Moscow--Pyongyang 10,267 kilometres (6,380 mi) and the Kiev--Vladivostok 11,085 kilometres (6,888 mi) services, both of which also follow the Trans - Siberian for much of their routes . </P> <P> The main route of the Trans - Siberian Railway begins in Moscow at Yaroslavsky Vokzal, runs through Yaroslavl, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ulan - Ude, Chita, and Khabarovsk to Vladivostok via southern Siberia . A second primary route is the Trans - Manchurian, which coincides with the Trans - Siberian east of Chita as far as Tarskaya (a stop 12 km (7 mi) east of Karymskoye, in Chita Oblast), about 1,000 km (621 mi) east of Lake Baikal . From Tarskaya the Trans - Manchurian heads southeast, via Harbin and Mudanjiang in China's Northeastern Provinces (from where a connection to Beijing is used by one of the Moscow--Beijing trains), joining with the main route in Ussuriysk just north of Vladivostok . This is the shortest and the oldest railway route to Vladivostok . While there are currently no traverse passenger services (enter China from one side and then exit China and return to Russia on the other side) on this branch, it is still used by several international passenger services between Russia and China . </P> <P> The third primary route is the Trans - Mongolian Railway, which coincides with the Trans - Siberian as far as Ulan - Ude on Lake Baikal's eastern shore . From Ulan - Ude the Trans - Mongolian heads south to Ulaan - Baatar before making its way southeast to Beijing . In 1991, a fourth route running further to the north was finally completed, after more than five decades of sporadic work . Known as the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM), this recent extension departs from the Trans - Siberian line at Taishet several hundred miles west of Lake Baikal and passes the lake at its northernmost extremity . It crosses the Amur River at Komsomolsk - na - Amure (north of Khabarovsk), and reaches the Tatar Strait at Sovetskaya Gavan . On 13 October 2011, a train from Khasan made its inaugural run to Rajin, North Korea . </P>

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