Yesterday, we completed 5,000km, and have now covered 20% of our overall route – so great team work, great progress. We are on schedule to complete the whole run around the end of May.
Today, we will turn right to follow the Trans-Siberian highway (which runs to St Petersburg, 7,265km away) & Trans-Siberian railway (which runs all the way to Moscow, 6,700km away).
This means that our route is now more accessible, and Google StreetView cars have been here, so I have included a link to StreetView panoramic images for each run. I think they will work when we are close to the road, but might not when we are further away. All the images that I have seen are from the summer, so you’ll have to imagine winter scene with the snow cover.
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That’s great progress! COGH team rocks! Thanks for the update and access to new maps. Hours of new fun to be had there!
I’m imagining StreetView cars driving (trying) in some of the places we have been. (Guess they’ll employ drones one day, although whether or not they can stand up to the deep freezing temperatures, I don’t know.)
However, it does seem that everything stops working at these temperatures (I’m thinking of truck drivers needing to heat the underside of their truck with a blow torch, even though the engine is left running all night) so as you say, drones might struggle too!
Thanks for the update Charlies1 I noticed the street view this morning when I uploaded, it has to be said it may have looked better with snow! Still it’s a fantastic journey and great to see how we have traversed so far as a group through this difficult terrain. Great recent additions to the site - well done 👏👍🎉
Hi Charlies1. I found a Guardian article from 2016 about taking the trans-Siberian in winter. It’s train but there is quite a bit of text & some good photos relevant to our route.
I hope the link works - I’m not a great techie! I found it by searching for Tachtamygda, which I saw on the map, so that might work if the link is flaky.
Remind me (not!) to tell the story of the time I went to lake baikal but it rained and was foggy and you couldn’t see anything worth seeing and basically it was cold and the bus broke down on the way there and ........ zzzzzzz 🥱
The link worked perfectly- thanks for sharing. I’ll try to create a page for the railway and add this link - it gives an insight to several places on our route
Many thanks Charlies1 , really appreciate all the work. I'm drowning in work and life admin right now, so haven't run since Tuesday. Hope to be back contributing to the COGH relay soon.
I looked at the street view when I logged my distances just now. I've been wondering how I'd missed it before! Absolutely loving the whole COGH thing, thank you so much x
Ooh great ! Haven’t logged this week only run once and that was only 4K - plan to run tomorrow maybe..... in the meantime have been researching another obscure and depressing literary update on the theme of Siberian rivers 😇😜
I haven't been further east than Baikal, but spent a lot of time in Russia a good few years ago. More recently I've spend time in the Georgia - so we'll be travelling through there a little - if i have time i'll share a few snippets from that part of the world, too ! (Shame we'd have to take a detour to visit the Stalin museum
"Three years after the asphalting of the road was complete, Google sent a car with a camera mast to drive the length of it, taking photos for Google Maps Street View and for Google Earth. The result is fascinating. Unlike in Soviet times, when unauthorised possession of military maps was a criminal offence and the few maps available to the public were riddled with deliberate errors and small in scale, Google offers top-quality images and maps to one and all. Based on satellite imagery and backed up by cameras on the ground, we can now see into the lives of Russians living in distant provincial towns and villages like never before."
"The imagery is from 2013. After the rupture with the West following the invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine in 2014, it is unlikely that Russia will allow Google to update its Street View maps or to extend the coverage. So see what's available to see today, dragging the orange man symbol onto roads highlighted in blue on Google Maps (on picking up the icon)."
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