Sibirjak

Sibirjak is the German spelling of the Russian name (Сибиряк) of a passenger train which currently links Berlin to some of main routes and cities of Russia. Its name means "Siberian". (A conventional English form of the name would be Siberiac.) The train passes through Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, partly traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Its route, listed as Berlin-Novosibirsk, is the longest route of any that depart from a station within the European Union.

Characteristics

The train, who departs from Berlin Zoologischer Garten station, and stops also into Berlin Hauptbahnhof [Berliner main railway station] and Berlin Ostbahnhof, runs through Poland and Belarus on the railroad to Warsaw and Minsk. In belarusian capital the train starts to be divided into some branchs: "siberian" (4 branchs), "southern" (3 branchs), and the one to St.Petersburg. Total of destinations are 8: Novosibirsk, St.Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Astana (in Kazakhstan) and Adler, a city in the suburbs of Sochi.
The train arrives into Berlin every saturday at 9:12 am and it starts again at 15:16. In earliest 2000's it departed into Berlin Lichtenberg station.

Routes

References

ee also

*Deutsche Bahn (DB)
*Polskie Koleje Państwowe (PKP)
*Belarusskaja Železnaja Doroga (BŽD)
*Rossijskie Železnye Dorogi (RŽD)
*Kazakstan Temir Žoly (KTŽ)
*Trans-Siberian Railway
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External links

* [http://home.att.ne.jp/gold/railplan/NZ/001-D-Nacht-1249-113.html Map of Sibirjak]
* [http://www.trans-sib.de/Photo/Other/train11.jpgPhoto of Sibirjak]