Moscow to Vladivostok
How long did it take to travel from Moscow to Vladivostok in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 8 days door to door, £40 10s. in first class.
Passage computes it for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: pick two places and a date, and print the ticket the purser's clerk would have written.
The journey in 1925
- Getting to the port
- Moscow → Omsk (by rail, about 67 h 30, estimate); Omsk → Irkutsk (by rail, about 63 h 48, estimate); Irkutsk → Harbin (by rail, about 50 h, estimate); Harbin → Vladivostok (by rail, about 19 h 30, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Moscow
- Sailing
- Saturday 14 March 1925
- Steamer
- Trans-Siberian Express · Baikal Express · Moscow – Omsk – Irkutsk – Harbin – Vladivostok
- Calls
- Omsk, Irkutsk, Harbin
- via
- the Urals, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk, Chita and Manchuli
- Arrival
- Vladivostok, Monday 23 March 1925
- Door to door
- 8 days
- Fare · First Class
- £40 10s.
- Fare · Second Class
- £27
The journey in 1933
- Getting to the port
- Moscow → Omsk (by rail, about 67 h 30, estimate); Omsk → Irkutsk (by rail, about 63 h 48, estimate); Irkutsk → Harbin (by rail, about 50 h, estimate); Harbin → Vladivostok (by rail, about 19 h 30, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Moscow
- Sailing
- Saturday 16 September 1933
- Steamer
- Trans-Siberian Express · Baikal Express · Moscow – Omsk – Irkutsk – Harbin – Vladivostok
- Calls
- Omsk, Irkutsk, Harbin
- via
- the Urals, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk, Chita and Manchuli
- Arrival
- Vladivostok, Monday 25 September 1933
- Door to door
- 8 days
- Fare · First Class
- £40 10s.
- Fare · Second Class
- £27
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