Pretty amazing: SiberianTimes.com
Siberia’s amazing new railway - the ‘Permafrost Express’ - opens to passengers this month
Major engineering achievement will connect Russia’s largest region to Moscow by train for the first time.
This long-awaited, historic line was first planned in the tsarist era which came to an end 102 years ago.
Construction started under Stalin, but only now is the epic new railway called the Amur-Yakutsk Mainline - known as the AYAM line - fully opening.
Some 900 kilometres of the line will run over permafrost, a fact which makes it a major engineering accomplishment.
The new line connects the rest of the Russian Railways network in Siberia to Nizhny Bestyakh, a station across the Lena River from Yakutsk, the capital of Yakutia, also known as the Sakha Republic, the largest region in the country.
This means direct trains will run soon from Yakutia to Moscow and back.
The first passenger service on the line is scheduled on 27 July.
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