Participants on the Siberian journey on board the «Correct». In front, from the left: Fridtjof Nansen, Stephan Vasilievitsj Vostrotin, gold mine owner and member of the government board (the Duma) from Yeniseisk, Johan Samuelsen, captain on board the «Correct». Standing in the back, from the left: Jonas Lied, director of the Siberian Company and leader of the Siberian journey; Josef Gregorievitsj Loris-Melikov, secretary at the Russian legation in Kristiania. 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.