Sibiryak[a](/sɪbɪərˈjæk/sib-eer-YAK) was a passenger train which linkedBerlinto some of main routes and cities ofRussia.Thetrainpassed throughGermany,Poland,Belarus,RussiaandKazakhstan,partly traveling on theTrans-Siberian Railway.With 5,130 km from Berlin toNovosibirskit was the longest route of any that depart from a station within theEuropean Union.The train service was discontinued with effect from 14 December 2013, due to lack of demand. The line was not actively promoted to potential customers by theDeutsche Bahn,[2]but it was available in their search engine.
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| Status | Discontinued[1] |
| Locale | Germany,Russia,Poland, Belarus,Kazakhstan |
| Former operator(s) | Deutsche Bahn,Russian Railways,Polish State Railways,Belarusian Railway,Kazakhstan Temir Zholy |
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| Termini | Berlin Novosibirsk(andothers) |
| Service frequency | One weekly |
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| Track gauge | 1,520 mm(4 ft11+27⁄32in) 1,435 mm(4 ft8+1⁄2in) |
Overview
editThe train, which departed fromBerlin Zoologischer Gartenstation, and stopped also atBerlin Hauptbahnhof[3]andBerlin Ostbahnhof,ran throughPolandandBelarus,servingWarsawandMinsk.In the Belarusian capital the train was divided into branches:Siberian(4 branches),Southern(3 branches), and one toSt.Petersburg.The total number of destinations was eight:Novosibirsk,St.Petersburg,Moscow,Kazan,Chelyabinsk,Ufa,Nur-Sultan(inKazakhstan) andAdler,a city in the suburbs ofSochi.
The train was scheduled to arrive in Berlin every Saturday at 09:12 and to leave again at 15:16.
Until the early 2000s the train had departed fromBerlin-Lichtenberg station.From 2008 it periodically changed itsBerlinerroute,[4]stopping again at Lichtenberg and ending atGesundbrunnen station.
Routes
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Description
editThe train ran on a common route from Berlin Zoologischer Garten toMinsk Passazhirsky,throughPoznań(Dworzec Głównystation),Warsaw(CentralnaandWschodnia),Brest(Tsentralnaya) andBaranovichi(Tsentralnaya). Other stops were inRzepin,ŁukówandTerespol.From Minsk toOrshathe train was separated into 3 branches throughZhodzinaandBarysaw.[10]
- Berlin - St. Petersburg:This was a periodic train running, from Orsha, toVitebskand throughPskov Oblast.Its terminal in Saint Petersburg was atVitebskaya station.
- Berlin - Moscow:This train worked daily as part of theAmsterdam-MoscowEuroNight.On Saturdays, as part ofSibirjak,it reachedSmolensk,Vyazmaand ended atMoskva Belorusskaya station.
- Berlin - Novosibirsk:This was the longest route ofSibirjakas for km. From Vyazma toVladimirit bypassed Moscow reachingNizhny Novgorod,Kirov,PermandYekaterinburg.After this city the train entered in CentralSiberiathroughTyumenandOmskand ended atNovosibirsk Glavny Vokzal.Periodically the train ran, from Vladimir to Yekaterinburg, throughKazan,excluding Novgorod, Kirov and Perm.[10]
- Berlin - Kazan:AtNizhny Novgorod stationsome detachedcoachesserved Kazan. Periodically it happened that the Berlin-Novosibirsk ran through theTatarcapital excluding Novgorod from the main Siberian route.[10]When the train was scheduled to this line (Vladimir-Kazan-Yekaterinburg) it was guaranteed a service of wagons from Kazan to Nizhny Novgorod.
- Berlin - Cheljabinsk:AtYekaterinburgstation some detached coaches servedChelyabinsk.The only stop was atKamensk-Uralsky.
- Berlin - Ufa:After Minsk and Smolensk, the train reachedRyazanandMichurinsk.Here the coaches to Adler were separated from the rest of the train. The train continued throughTambov,RtishchevoandSaratov.At this station, after the detachment of the coaches to Astana and a long stop of 7 hours, the train continued toSamara,Buguruslanand ended atUfa Station.
- Berlin - Astana:After the long stop in Saratov the train entered inKazakhstanatOral.After the stop it entered again inRussiareachingOrenburg,OrskandKartaly,at Russian-Kazakh frontier. It ended atAstana station,99 hours after its departure from Berlin. This was a periodic service.
- Berlin - Adler:After the stop in Michurinsk the train travelled to southern Russia following the line of theDon River.It passedLiski,Voronezh,Rostov,Novocherkassk,Krasnodar,reaching theBlack Seacoast inTuapse.It continued toSochiand the neighbouring town ofAdler,close to the borders withAbkhazia,breakaway republic fromGeorgia.
There were some plans to extend the service toBaku.[citation needed]
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Notes
edit- ^Russian:Сибиряк,IPA:[sʲɪbʲɪˈrʲak],lit. 'a Siberian [person]'
References
edit- ^Hidden Europe, Letter from Europe: From Berlin to Siberia, 2013.http:// hiddeneurope.co.uk/from-berlin-to-siberia
- ^Hidden Europe, Letter from Europe: From Berlin to Siberia, 2013.http:// hiddeneurope.co.uk/from-berlin-to-siberia
- ^Berliner main railway station
- ^Some saturdays on Summer
- ^Period calculated in hh:mm
- ^Berlin-St.Petersburg periodical train
- ^Berlin-Moscow train ran every day, only on saturday onSibirjak
- ^abPeriodically the "Berlin-Novosibirsk" route, and so the "Berlin-Chelyabinsk", servedKazan(in a different line from Vladimir to Yekaterinburg), excluding Novgorod, Kirov and Perm
- ^Periodically "Berlin-Nizhny Novgorod", when the route to Novosibirsk ran through Kazan
- ^abc(in German)Consulted timetableon theÖBBwebsite
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