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- From: marka@dsinet (Mark Anacker)
- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Subject: Re: Bogus about trains, was Re: Travel in Former Soviet Union
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 06:04:36 GMT
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- dmitry pruss (pruss@helix.nih.gov) wrote:
- : >Of course, you could always go by train (2.5 days from Kiev to Moscow).
- :
- : 8-\ it used to be 14 hr
- : You'd get to Eastern Siberia or Central Asia in 2.5 days.
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- It was 15.5 hours just to go from Chernostvy to Bucharest (of course, that did
- include 6 hours at the border). I hear there are many delays in travelling
- long distances within the former USSR these days...
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