The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR) is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East.
With a length of 9,289 kilometres, it is the longest railway line in the world. There are connecting branch lines into
Mongolia, China and North Korea. It has connected Moscow with Vladivostok since 1916, and is still being expanded.
It was built between 1891 and 1916 under the supervision of Russian government ministers personally appointed
by Tsar Alexander III and his son, the Tsarevich Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II). Even before it had been completed,
it attracted travellers who wrote of their adventures more on:--Wikipedia