The Far Eastern Route
Chita → Blagoveshchensk → Khabarovsk → Mykolsk-Ussuriysky → Vladivostok. About 2,000 km. Ten days. The historical zones of Ukrainian Far Eastern settlement and political organisation.
The route follows the historical Trans-Siberian Railway line from the Trans-Baikal region to the Pacific, taking in the principal sites of Ukrainian Far Eastern political organisation between 1917 and 1922. Most of the journey is best done by train (the Trans-Siberian and the Far Eastern branch of it operate on regular schedules); the inter-city travel within each region can be done by train, by domestic flight, or by rental car as conditions allow.
Days 1–2 — Chita. The Trans-Baikal centre, capital of the 1920-1922 Far Eastern Republic. The Far Eastern Republic Museum; the substantial colonial-era city centre.
Day 3 — Train Chita → Blagoveshchensk. About 24 hours by direct train; substantially less by air.
Day 4 — Blagoveshchensk. The Amur frontier city; the Amur Region Museum; the contemporary Ukrainian cultural society.
Day 5 — Train Blagoveshchensk → Khabarovsk. About 12 hours.
Days 6–7 — Khabarovsk. The administrative centre. The Second Ukrainian Far Eastern Congress site; the Khabarovsk Regional Museum; the substantial pre-revolutionary city centre.
Day 8 — Train Khabarovsk → Mykolsk-Ussuriysky (Ussuriysk). About 12 hours.
Day 9 — Ussuriysk. The First Ukrainian Far Eastern Congress site; the rural Ukrainian-settlement district around the city.
Days 10–11 — Vladivostok. The Pacific capital. The Fourth Congress site; the surviving early-twentieth-century neighbourhoods; the Far Eastern State University archives. Fly home from Vladivostok.