Don't even bother 'officially' enquiring via the railway company, all you can get is stupidly slow container transport.
Railway workers advised us that it's possible to stick motorcycles on the post trains, but we needed to go to a different station and we never did, so I can't advise on how easy/expensive that is.
My bike went from Krasnoyarsk (1000km west of Irkutsk) to Moscow, around 4000km journey. It was with a small rail frieght firm, that only transported stuff between those two cities. A contact Colebatch put us in touch with took us to the railyard and helped arrange it - Bike was sent as 115kgs of 'autoparts'. Cost was so little it was basically free. Even if you sent your bike as more weight I think it'd still work out cheap. Colebatch's friend Dima was very helpful, he seemed pleased to be helping other motorcyclists and proud to show us his home city.
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