Skip to content

Audio paused

Back to stories
A passenger train follows a river through forested mountains.

B1 · 41 sec audio

Транссибирская магистраль

The Trans-Siberian Railway

Follow the railway from Moscow to Vladivostok, through forests and mountains, and discover how people use it today.

Reader guide
  • In Read mode, tap a word to play from that exact moment.
  • Show the current sentence’s translation, all translations, or none.
  • Switch to Study, then select a sentence for vocabulary, grammar and usage in context.

Keyboard: Space to play or pause, arrows to skip, R to replay the sentence. In Read, word focus uses left and right arrows. In Study, sentence focus uses arrow keys and Enter or Space opens the explanation.

Translation:

Current translation

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world.

Select a sentence to study its vocabulary, grammar and usage.

— . The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world. , . It begins in Moscow and ends in Vladivostok, passing through all of Russia. , , . People use it to travel, transport goods and visit relatives. , . The train goes through forests, mountains and rivers. . The railway was built more than a hundred years ago. . Now it is very important for the country's economy. , . Many tourists dream of going on this train to see the real Russia.
0:000:40