September 6, 2018 is the fourth day of entry into Russia, because we have to take a flight to St. Petersburg at 6:20, we got up at 3:30 in the morning, and left at 4 o'clock on time for the Holiday Inn Irkutsk City North Sea that we stayed in last night to rush to the Irkutsk City Airport.
Irkutsk Airport
When we arrived at the airport at 4.40 a.m. by bus, it was not yet daylight.
Exterior view of the departure hall of Irkutsk Airport
Security entrance to the terminal hall of Irkutsk Airport
Corner of the departure hall of Irkutsk Airport
Russian children waiting for the bus
A Russian mother and daughter waiting at the airport
After check-in, boarding starts at 5:50 a.m.
The flight number we took
Before boarding, we bid farewell to Nick, the ground pick-up guide in Irkutsk. Nick is a very good, spiritual little boy, very lively and cute, when receiving us to visit, he will show us the scene characters of the tourist attractions like an actor, which impresses everyone. Her lover was also a tour guide, and while we were visiting the Baikal Museum, it happened that the tour group his lover had brought with him also went to visit.
Say goodbye to tour guide Nick
We were on an Ilsal aircraft RRJ-95, which flew over the city of Irkutsk after taking off on time, giving us a chance to look down on the city from the air, and through the porthole of the plane, we saw the Angara River flowing from Lake Baikal like a silver ribbon embedded in the middle of the city, with a sense of agility.
Shuttle bus from Irkutsk Airport
We flew on this plane to St. Petersburg
Take a photo before boarding in Irkutsk
Aerial view of Irkutsk Airport
Irkutsk outside the glare window of the plane in flight
View of Irkutsk from the glare window during the flight
View from the glare window during the plane's flight
At 6:56 a.m., breakfast began on board, with a small packet of biscuits, two boxes of jam, two slices of whole wheat bread, and three slices of ham.
Breakfast on board the plane
Russian passengers on board the plane
After an hour of flying in the air, at 7:20 a.m. the plane we were on landed in Barnaul.
Fly to Barnaul
Baggage claim at Barnaul Airport
Take a photo at Barnaul Airport
Barnaul, a city in southern Western Siberia, Russia, the capital of altai krai, on the left bank of the upper Ob River, at the mouth of the Barnaul River. Founded in 1730, Barnaul was the center of non-ferrous metal mining and smelting in Altai Krai in the early nineteenth century, and later a commercial center. Railway hub, river port, aviation station.
Cityscape of Barnaul
The industry is mainly based on machinery manufacturing (engines, boilers, machine tools, presses, railway vehicles, agricultural machinery, etc.), textiles, chemicals (chemical fibers, tires, rubber) and food industry. There are many colleges and universities such as engineering, medicine, and agriculture. On the opposite bank, Novo-Altaysk is a railway hub with a large rolling stock factory. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was the center of non-ferrous metal mining and smelting in Altai Krai, later a commercial center.
The city of Barnaul was founded in 1930 as the capital of the Territory and a dock on the Ob River. The city has 6 institutions of higher learning (including the University of Altay), 4 theatres and 2 museums, with a population of 596,000. The city is well planned, the roads are wide and straight, and the large and small parks are all over the city, and the long history, culture, and scenic spots attract tourists from all over the world.
Night view of the city of Barnaul
The city of Barnaul is a railway hub in West Siberia, the West Siberian Railway runs directly to the city of Novosibirsk, and is connected to the city of Novos kuznetsk, a bakan city, a krasnoyarsk city, a kamen, a kokchetav, a kustanay city, a bapullodar, an Ekibastuz city, an Akmora-Canlinogle, a semipalatinsk, ustykamenogorsk, Leninogorsk, Leninogorsk, and Zylangovsk—Ayagaz—Almaty—Druzhba (Alashan pass, Xinjiang, China). The city of Barnaux is 213 km away from the city of Novosibirsk (by rail).
Barnaul's railway line
During the stopover in Barnaul, we experienced the first experience in the history of flying, that is, when people had to exit the arrival gate during the stopover, and then re-checked in and checked in at the stopping airport before re-boarding.
Balnaul Airport Departure Hall
Baggage goes through security
Wait in line for boarding
Ready to start boarding
The time to retake off at this airport is 8:30 Beijing time. The flight was a flight around the earth following the sun, and when we flew to St. Petersburg, it was 1:30 p.m. Beijing time, and here in Moscow time was 8:30 a.m. Because China is the eighth district in the east and St. Petersburg is the first district in the west, the difference is 5 hours, that is, the difference is 5 hours.
Take a photo outside St. Petersburg Airport
precisely:
After touring Yicheng, take a flight away from Yicheng,
Chasing the sun around the earth,
Five time zones apart to reach the holy city,
Move on to a new day.
Note: Some of the images of Barnaul in this article are from the internet
To be continued, next article, Dragons Travel the World - A Journey to Russia (IV) "Visiting the Bronze Square of Julius Caesar in St. Petersburg, the Golden Dome cathedral and the Summer Palace"