The stories in this section will bring you closer to some the people and places we come across on our journey. We hope you will take the time to view these images and gain a deeper insight into the people and a greater appreciation of the land. By presenting these stories as stand alone features we hope they will have greater impact and a flow of their own.
Road Story Directory

A Soldier's Story
The words of a dead soldier from Chechnya's battlefield are heard through the memories of his family and in his last letters.

Revolution Square
The sound of voices raised in protest can be heard in Chelyabinsk's Revolution Square. And they are calling for a new revolution.

Living Gay in Russia
Go Girl!
A visit into Russia's gay subculture and an unusual "show".

Exploring Lake Baikal
Gary and Lisa join a scientific expedition to collect mollusks and plankton from the World's largest fresh water lake.

Gentleman Farmer
Slaughter and Feast
Buddist Prayer Ceremony
Gary and Lisa spend three days with a Buryat family as it explores new economic opportunities and the return of religous and cultural freedoms.

Lenin Street
A glimpse of life along a busy Chita thoroughfare.

The Last Jews of Birobidzhan
Facing a dismal economic future, Birobidzhan's small Jewish community struggles to maintain a cultural revival begun in the late 1980s.

The 'chewing gum wars'
Larisa Fedotova is one of the new generation of marketing and sales executives trying to establish and broaden channels of distribution for the new flood of consumer products.

The Truck Driver
A long-haul trucker for more than a third of his thirty years, Zhenya's view of life is as simple as "take it as it comes".

The Lighthouse Keeper
Like his father before him, Vasily Ivanovich Ilchenko tends the lighthouse at the tip of Tokarevsky Cape.

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