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A rally in Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk Region, on the occasion of the arrival of a building team for construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway. 1979. In March 1974, Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev proposed that the BAM would be one of the two major projects in the Tenth Five Year Plan (1976–80). [9]
The Russian armoured train Baikal is an armoured train currently in use by Russia in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in 2022. [5] Unlike the newer trains Yenisei and Volga, Baikal was already built long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Both Baikal and its sister train, Amur were reactivated back in 2016, originally for rear-line ...
The Amur–Yakutsk Mainline (Russian: Амуро-Якутская магистраль, Amuro-Yakutskaya Magistral), abbreviated to AYaM (Russian АЯM), is a partially complete railway in eastern Russia, linking the Trans–Siberian Railway and Baikal–Amur Mainline with the Sakha Republic.
The Severomuysky Tunnel (Russian: Северому́йский тонне́ль) is a railroad tunnel on the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM), in northwestern Buryatia, Russia. It is named after the Northern Muya Range it cuts through. The tunnel is 15.34 kilometres (9.53 mi) long, the longest in Russia (excluding metro lines). [1]
Alma-Ata Railway (a section runs in Altai Krai, Russia) Amur Railway; Baikal Amur Mainline; Baltic Railway (a section runs in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) Connecting Line; Kemerovo Railway; Krugobaikalskaya Railway; Mid-Siberian Railway; Moscow-Brest Railway; Moscow-Kazan Railway; Moscow-Kiev-Voronezh Railway; Moscow-Kursk Railway; Moscow-Nizhny ...
The Transbaikal Railway (Забайкальская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chita and serving Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast. [1] The mainline was built between 1895 and 1905 as part of the Trans-Siberian Railway .
View of Lake Baikal in Buryatia View of the valley of the Uda near the village of Khorinsk Landscape of southern Buryatia. The republic is located in the south-central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal. Area: 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi) Borders: Internal: Irkutsk Oblast (W/NW/N), Zabaykalsky Krai (NE/E/SE/S ...
The 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) broad gauge Amur Railway [a] is the last section of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, built in 1907–1916. The construction of this railway favoured the development of the gold mining industry, logging , fisheries and the fur trade in Siberia and Russian Far East .