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Secret Siberia
by Rail, River, and Road
  • Nicholas Zvegintzov
  • Email zvegint@hotmail.com
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Russia, political
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Russia, physical
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Nothing to eat
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Communications and transport have broken down
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People are bandits and thugs
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Geography of the north-east –  political
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Geography of the north-east –  physical
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Geography of the north-east –  rivers
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Geography of the north-east –  cities
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Geography of the north-east –  The Trans-Siberian
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The Workers State had a better idea
  • The Workers State had a better idea – Go straight
  • АЯАД – AYaAD, the Amur Yakutsk Automobile Highway,1930-37
  • БАМ – BAM, the Baikal Amur Mainline, 1933-2002
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The AYaAD and the BAM
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Taishet
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The BAM curtain
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Chuna station on the western BAM, built in the 1940’s.
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Summer scything
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New cities on the BAM
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Bratsk – the dam
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“Bratsk Station gave 795242 MKwH to our country”
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The control room
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Rechushka – a station from the 1970s
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Severobaikalsk – the station
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Baikal lake view
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Baikal lake party – entertaining the shepherd
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The boat the shepherd came in
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Baikal lake party – Partisan tea
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Baikal Khakusy Hot Springs – The baths
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The coach
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Baikal Khakusy Hot Springs – Gathering the hot water weed
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Baikal – The Buddhist-shamanist shrine
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Severobaikalsk – Builders monument
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Severomuisk – Climbing to the bypass via spiral tunnel
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West portal of the Severomuisk tunnel under construction
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Severomuisk – Three hairpins to the Muya valley
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Taksimo – downed Tupolev ANT-4 from 1930s surveys
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Leprindo
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The Chara valley, with the sand dunes and Marble Canyon
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Helicopter pilot and Chara Museum Director
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Up the Sredni Sakukan river valley
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Marble Canyon – side canyon
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Up the side canyon
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Boxed in the canyon
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Chara Museum – the golden spike and the golden rail anchor
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Between Olonggo and Khani – highest point on the BAM
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Sunrise from the BAM on the Olekma river
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Tynda – the main street
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Marina Yakovlevna Savchuk, provodnitsa on the Kislovodsk-Tynda train
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Tynda – The statue by the BAM Bridge Building organisation
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A long hot journey across the plateau – the little girls in the corridor
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The baby asleep
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The multicultural toilet
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Verkhnezeisk – flowerbed at the House of the Locomotive Brigade
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Urgal – the Japanese-built barrack
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Chegdomyn – the N Korea compound
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Trackside bustle as the train stops at Suluk on the Amgun River
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Postyshevo – Old Believer working on the fire-train
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Postyshevo – The new town
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Komsomolsk-na-Amure –  Pervostroitelei Avenue, 80 m wide
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Komsomolsk-na-Amure – the little girl and the vintage car
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Biznes Tsentr – the front door
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Khrushchev’s bed
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The boy in the cherry tree
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The Great Patriotic War memorial at Komsomolsk-na-Amure
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West door of the station built by Japanese POWs at Vysokogornaya
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Sovetskaya Gavan – the end of the line
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Sovetskaya Gavan – The Amur Tiger
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Arrested in Vanino
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Under house arrest in Vanino
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Vanino – The train leaves
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Vanino – Lenin, now more alive than all living beings
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Plums and pelmeni on the train
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Down the Lena from Ust-Kut to Yakutsk
  • Down the Lena to Yakutsk by paddle steamer (теплоход)
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From the BAM crossing at Ust-Kut down to Yakutsk
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I set off by Meteor – “You will surely catch up”
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The Krasnoyarsk – close-up
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The Krasnoyarsk
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The stoker
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The builder’s plate
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Classes on the Lena river steamer
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The kitchen
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In the crew lounge
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Stopping at a stockaded village
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Picking up passengers
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The “Captain” of Peledui
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Following the plain red flag to the east
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To Yakutsk in 4 days, 9 hours
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Yakutsk or Tuimaada
  • Yakutsk / Tuimaada
  • Якутск, Туймаада
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Yakutsk – Not!
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Old and new in Yakutsk, the 1909 Treasury Building
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Healthy youth, strong government
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Skaters rule
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Children of Asia
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Children of Asia sign
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Fireworks over the stadium
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The former Trinity Cathedral, built of brick in 1708
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Inside the Theater of Varieties
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Fishing north of Yakutsk
  • In which we fly to the Дянышка and fish all week and all night
  • And Afanasi catches his taimen
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AN-2 of Ilin Airways
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Into the mountains – doors and windows optional
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The crew at rest
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A wet campground
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Waiting for the fishermen
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Afanasi gets his taimen
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Campground soup
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Drifting at midnight on the river
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Favorite food at base camp
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Back in civilisation
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South by the AYaAD
  • South by the AYaAD
  • АЯАД – AYaAD, the Amur Yakutsk Automobile Highway,1930-37


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From Yakutsk to Neryungri by highway
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Yakutsk avtovokzal – The bus station in summer
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Mokhsogollokh – shashlik stand at the ferry
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Crossing the Lena at Mokhsogollokh
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Breakdown on the highway
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The uranium-mining gulag of Vasilevka
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The camp graves at Vasilevka
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Berry-sellers on the AYaAD Highway, August
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Neryungri Coal Mine
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In the cold
  • Yakutsk and around in winter
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“We’re here!  Time to get out, kids!”
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Arriving at Yakutsk airport
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Waiting for the bus
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The baby on the bus
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Day of Reindeer Herders
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The reindeer races on the city inlet
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The journey to II Хомустах, across the Lena
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The man and boy looking for their horse
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The cabbage-farming village II Хомустах
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Addressing the science class
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Teachers and students
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The Evenk girl sings
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Home made skis
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A gnawed horseleg
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A village feast
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Master class at the Music Institute – Yakut singing
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Master class at the Music Institute –Khomus (jew’s harp) instruction
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The Lena Overlook
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The Overlook Guesthouse
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Children of Депутатский
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Children of Депутатский
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Trucks on the winter road
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The M-56 main highway from Yakutsk heads across the Lena river as an officially posted dual carriageway  zimnik (winter road)
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Furniture store
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Across Baikal on the ice
  • Ust-Barguzin to Baikalskoe on the Lake Baikal ice
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The monastery at Pokrovka
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Park checkpoint on the island
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The informal convoy stops at a marker
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A crack in the ice
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Going over a crack
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Finding a way to shore in the dusk
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On land at Baikalskoe
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Nikolai at home
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Barbecue at Shestakovo
  • Barbecue at Shestakovo
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Владимир Александрович in his living room
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Backyard barbecue, Siberian style
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Siberian BAM Guide
  • Siberian BAM Guide - rail, rivers, and road / Includes North-East Russia's Siberian BAM Railway, Lena River & Kolyma Highway".
  • Authors Athol Yates & Nicholas Zvegintzov.
  • Trailblazer Publications, UK.  2001.  ISBN 1-873756-18-6.
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Nicholas Zvegintzov
  • Good journey!
  • Счастливого пути!