Travel by freight trains with my girlfriend through Russia.

We set off on a journey from Murmansk to St. Petersburg by freight trains. I have long wanted to go by this north route, there were even plans to do it in winter. I did not feel such abandoned as on the railways of Russia in any country in the world. There is something in small railway stations, villages of three houses, freight trains forgotten on the way, restrooms at provincial railway yards. The time here was stopped a dozen years ago and forwards reluctantly. Only artifacts of the future like 4G Internet occasionally reminded us that we are in nowadays Russia.