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Section AS01  Vladivostok & Usuri Region

Vladivostok - Khabarovsk

Travelogue

Estimated Distance: 840 km / 520 mi.

Planned Route: Vladivostok (Russia) - Ussurijsk - Khabarovsk

Highlights: Vladivostok, Usuri Region.

This is the beginning of the Asian part of the Tour. It starts with some time in the capital of the Russian Far East, the intriguing city of Vladivostok where West meets East, only few miles from Korea and China, and where the Trans-Siberian railway coming from Moscow ends. Vladivostok is also the only Russian port on the Pacific Ocean. 

Once the motorcycle is cleared from custom, the trip will start heading North through the wild Usuri Region, home of the Siberian tiger and the stage for Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's 1975 film "Dersu Uzala". Section ends in Khabarovsk, the other Russian Far East big city on the Amur river.

Section AS02  Jewish Autonomous Region 

Khabarovsk - Blagovescensk

Travelogue

Estimated Distance: 740 km / 460 mi.

Planned Route: Khabarovsk - Birobidzan - Blagovescensk

Highlights: Jewish Autonomous Region, Chinese Border.

Traveling West from Khabarovsk along the Amur river and the Chinese Manchurian border the route crosses the depleted and mosquito-infected Jewish Autonomous Region (capital Birobidzan). Created by the young Soviet state in the 1920s the project was to allow impoverished Jewish population from Europe to find a "homeland" while helping populating the Far East region and shielding Russia against Japanese ambitions of the early 20th century. 

Blagovescensk, on the Amur river, is facing the Chinese town of Heihe, and it may be an occasion to set a foot for few hours on Chinese soil. In Blagovescensk will be assed if the road actually continues to Skorovodino or not. In the latter case, motorcycle and rider would catch the Trans-Siberian West-bound to where the road begins again in Chita.

Section AS03  Amur River

Blagovescensk - Skorovodino

Travelogue

Estimated Distance: 700 km / 480 mi.

Planned Route: Blagovescensk - Skorovodino

Highlights: Siberian Landscape.

Assuming the road West-bound continues from Blagovescensk to Skorovodino, where it surely ends, the trip will continue for a few hundred miles more.

Section AS04  Trans-Siberian Railway

Skorovodino - Chita (Train)

Travelogue

Estimated Distance: 1200 km / 750 mi.

Planned Route: Blagovescensk - Skorovodino

Highlights: Trans-Siberian Railway.

As there is surely no road between the two cities, motorcycle and rider will be loaded on the Trans-Siberian train.

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