VERKHNEZEYSK VILLAGE (Amur Region), 12 Aug Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu took part in the ceremony of laying a memorial stone on the occasion of the beginning of the reconstruction of the eastern branch of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. «This is a 340-kilometer section from Ulak to Fevralsk. The significance of this section of the BAM for the country's economy is enormous,» he said.
Military railway workers have to hand over 19 facilities during the reconstruction of BAM According to the minister, the potential of the railway track has now been exhausted due to high workload, but by the end of 2024, after the road is put into operation, the transport capabilities of Eastern Siberia will increase, the throughput and the volume of transit traffic will increase. …
«In addition, Russia will be able to expand its access to the markets of the Asia-Pacific region,» Shoigu stressed.
He recalled that the Ministry of Defense is taking part in the reconstruction of the BAM on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, and expressed confidence that the Railway Troops will adequately cope with the tasks set. They have already completed deployment and started work. Along the entire section from Ulak to Fevralsk, camps for military railway workers were erected, the necessary equipment was attracted to the construction. Full-scale work has already begun at five of the 19 facilities, the minister said.
Sports facilities will be built in the BAM zone in the Amur Region «For me, first of all, hundreds of thousands of our compatriots, who implemented the most ambitious and expensive infrastructure project in the history of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Someone came here» for the fog and the smell of taiga, «someone was more attracted by high earnings However, both of them worked in the most difficult conditions of permafrost in uninhabited territory. Now, in this sense, little has changed — here is still the same harsh climate and kilometers of impassable taiga, «he said. The Far East, the second mainline (along with the Transsib) railway access of Russia to the Pacific Ocean. Connects Taishet and Sovetskaya Gavan. The total length is now 4.3 thousand kilometers. BAM and Transsib are operating at the limit of their capacity.
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