Chuisky highway & Ininskiy bridge. Altay. Siberia. Russia. 4K

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0:00 Leaving the Areda Campsite
0:22 Plans for today
1:20 Alice about the Chuyskiy highway
2:18 Chuyskiy highway
3:03 Alice about maral
3:46 Chike-Taman gorge
4:57 Ininskiy bridge
7:53 In the next video...
8:35 Thanks!

We're back on the road once again! It's the fifth day of our journey today. We've just left the welcoming campsite, Areda, where we stayed for two days.

We're heading to the village of Ust-Sema, where the Chemal highway, along which we're traveling now, flows into the well-known Chuisky.

After that, we'll be traveling exclusively along the Chuisky highway almost to the borders of Mongolia. From Aktash, where we plan to spend our last two nights of the tour, to the Mongolian border is about 150 kilometers.

Just a reminder, friends - we're traveling with Altaigeotour. We're taking part in an author's tour called "From North to South».

Now, let's hear from Alice about what makes the Chuisky highway so famous.Alice, could you please tell us more about the Chuisky Highway?

Additionally, according to National Geographic magazine, the Chuisky Highway ranks fifth among the top ten most beautiful roads in the world. It is also worth noting that the Chuisky route is the only one in Russia to be featured in this prestigious international ranking.

We had lunch at the Chike Taman pass at 1300 m above sea level.

There were many interesting things to see along the Chuisky Highway. The Ininskiy Bridge across the Katun River was undoubtedly one of the highlights. As the first double-decker suspension bridge in Russia and an architectural landmark, it has been added to the list of cultural heritage sites of the Russian Federation.

Its length is approximately 140 metres and it was built according to a project by Sergei Afanasyevich Tsaplin, a student at the Moscow Automobile Institute, who was here on summer practice in 1934 to work on the construction of the Chuisky Highway. The double-decker suspension bridge was Tsaplin's graduation project.

He presented his idea to the chief construction engineer, who was impressed by the student's proposal and decided to implement it on a section of the Chuisky Highway near the 356th kilometer. The highway crossed the Katun River near the village of Inya, and a bridge would be constructed there.

The story of its construction is interesting and somewhat dramatic…

Work on the construction of the bridge began in December 1934, and about three thousand prisoners from Siblag, Siberian correctional labor camp, were involved.

On the left bank, there was a camp on a hill, fenced with barbed wire and guarded.

All the work was done manually. The cables for the bridge were twisted using the rear axle of a truck, right on the frozen Katun River.

The work was carried out day and night, illuminated by lanterns. Upon completion of the project, the camp management has promised to grant amnesty to the most active workers. That's why the bridge was given another name - "Dembelskiy" - because of the word "demobilization".

In April 1936, the tests of the bridge started, when six ZIS trucks, fully loaded, drove from one shore to another.

On May 1st, 1936, the bridge opened. As promised, the most active bridge builders were granted amnesty. However, on the way to Biysk, a ZIS-5 truck driven by a novice driver fell off a cliff, resulting in the death of all 27 passengers, including the driver.

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