History of Russia Abroad: Great Britain to host the exhibition "The Trans-Siberian Railway: The Longest Railway in the World"

Next year, The National Railway Museum in York plans to open the exhibition "The Trans-Siberian Railway: The Longest Railway in the World". It spotlights the history and significance of the Trans-Siberian Railway (the longest and most famous railway) for Russia and the world.

The new exhibition will be showcased at the National Railway Museum in York. The Science Museum in London will host a small variant of the exposition. The project is arranged together with the Russian Railways (RZD). It features unique Russian and British items brought together for the first time. This exhibition will represent the extraordinary engineering challenges related to railway construction, its socio-economic impact on Russia, and unique travel experience.

The York exposition will include the famous Easter egg "The Great Siberian Railway" by Faberge. The London exhibition will feature a fragment of Pavel Pyasetsky's panorama "The Great Siberian Way", which was presented at the Paris exhibition of 1900. Its total length is almost a thousand meters.

The exhibition will present engineering, social and cultural facts about the longest railway in the world of 5,772 miles long (more than 9 thousand kilometres). It runs between Moscow and Vladivostok, crossing continents and connecting East with West.

Exhibits were provided by the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the British Library, the Museum of Imperial Wars, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the State Hermitage, the Russian State Library and the Central Museum of Russian Railway Transport in Saint-Petersburg.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition "The Trans-Siberian Railway: The Longest Railway in the World" will take place on March 26, 2021, in York and London. It will run until September 5, 2021.