Passengers in the mess on board the «Correct». From the left: Fridtjof Nansen, Captain Johan Samuelsen, Hans Christian Johansen (Johannesen) and Josef Gregorievitsj Loris-Melikov (secretary at the Russian legation in Norway). 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.