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The main Trans-Siberian route is really not very interesting until you get to Lake Baikal, so by deviating from it you won't miss much.
Much of northern and western Kazakhstan are also dull, but it's a nice kind of soothing emptiness which you can camp in without (many) mosquitoes. But the further south you go, the hotter it gets. I like the centre of Kazakhstan for this, though there isn't a clear road across.
There are some nice backroads in the South Urals, in the Miass - Orenburg - Magnitogorsk area. Western Siberia is pretty dull. The best bits are when you head south into Altai, Tuva, Khakassia and Kemerovo Regions. There are a few detours you could do here.
East of here things are slightly more interesting as the scenery after Baikal becomes nicer. Again, I can recommend back-roads if you are interested.
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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.
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