The Baikal-Amur Mainline

The Baikal-Amur Mainline is a complex engineering project in permafrost conditions.
A third of the road is tunnels, bridges, viaducts, anti-avalanche walls.
Why did Russia need it?
Transsib connected the European regions of Russia with Siberia and the Far East in the early 20th century.
The area around Baikal from the south was too close to the border.
The Soviet government decided to build a northern detour.

There wasn’t enough workers, and so, the government brought in the prisoners, as well as the railway troops.
The works were carried out intermittently. During the war, some of the rails were removed – they were needed in Stalingrad.

In the mid-1970s, BAM was declared a Komsomol construction site.

Connection took place after 10 years, but the "golden link" – the Severomuisk tunnel – was finished over only at the beginning of the XXI century.
BAM became a “launchpad” for further exploration and development of the entire Far East and North-Eastern Siberia.


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