Photojournalism Trans-Siberian Railway 1979 USSR Soviet Union Bernard Richebe

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About Bernard Richebe:

Born in Paris on July 20, 1956. From a French father and a Swiss mother. Secondary education up to terminal. 1975    Then begins the apprenticeship of the profession of professional photographer:  Shooting assistant. Studio Clic-Clac, Gerald Wortman, Rank-Molinard, Jean-Claude Dewolf, William Klein. Then turns to reporting and does work in Russia on the Trans-Siberian. Resident at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici for two years. 1980-1981    Freelance photographer since 1981: Advertising photography.  With the agencies, Publicis, Roux-Séguéla, Lintas, Havas... for the Citroën campaigns, on the Great Wall of China, then in the United States, Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance in Mexico, Dunlop in Colombia, Cristal d'Arques, etc. ...    Press photography.   Express, Figaro Magazine, Paris Match, Studio Magazine, Photo, etc...    Works on institutional orders.  For the Ministry of Culture, “Objectif Monuments”, “Presence of French Churches in Rome”.  For Unesco, participation in the “Heritage 2001” operation.    Education.  Collaborates with the photography school (CFT Gobelins) of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  Photography teacher to final year students at CFT Gobelins for one year (replacement of a teacher on availability).     Technical publishing.  Authors of Cahiers Photoshop, at Eyrolles.

The Trans-Siberian Railway (Транссибирская магистраль, Transsibirskaya Magistral') connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles), it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the east.

During the period of the Russian Empire, government ministers—personally appointed by Alexander III and his son Nicholas II—supervised the building of the railway network between 1891 and 1916. Even before its completion, the line attracted travelers who documented their experiences. Since 1916, the Trans-Siberian Railway has directly connected Moscow with Vladivostok. As of 2021, expansion projects remain underway, with connections being built to Russia's neighbors (namely Mongolia, China, and North Korea). Additionally, there have been proposals and talks to expand the network to Tokyo, Japan, with new bridges that would connect the mainland railway through the Russian island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

The railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian line that connects many large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. At a Moscow–Vladivostok track length of 9,289 kilometers (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 kilometers (6,380 mi) and the Kyiv (Kiev)–Vladivostok 11,085 kilometers (6,888 mi) services, both of which also follow the Trans-Siberian for much of their routes.

The main route of the Trans-Siberian Railway begins in Moscow at Yaroslavsky Vokzal, runs through Yaroslavl or Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, 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.

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 Ulaanbaatar 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.