Jonas Lied, director of the Siberian Company, leader of the Siberian journey. One of the pictures from the journey to Siberia between Aug. 2 and Oct. 26, 1913. Fridtjof Nansen started his trans-Siberian travel on a freighter from Oslo to Yenisei. The journey went through parts of the Northeast Passage, which was to be opened as a shorter trading connection between Western Europe and the Far East.