BAYKAL-AMUR MAINLINE

(BAM), railroad line linking central Siberian Russia with the Pacific. The BAM parallels the Trans-Siberian RR but passes north rather than south of Lake Baykal. It is 1,928 mi (3,102 km) long, with 1,987 bridges. Its eastern terminus is Sovetskaya Gavan on the Tatar Strait. It was begun in 1938 but was dismantled for parts after World War II. It was restarted in 1974 and officially completed in 1991. Although it operates along its entire length, it is little used, largely because of a lack of funds to maintain it.

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Siberia--Worlds Apart
Book by Victor L. Mote; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Siberia (Russia)--History
...Bassin, "The Russian Geographical Society, the Amur Epoch, and the Great Siberian Expedition...proposals urged the laying of track north of Lake Baykal over the route of the Baykal-Amur Mainline 1974-1985 , which is a shorter route to the...
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Geography of the Soviet Union
Book by J. P. Cole; Butterworth, 1984
Subjects: Soviet Union--Economic Conditions--1975-1985, Soviet Union--Economic Conditions--1975-1985--Regional Disparities
...of the eastern zone of influence of the Baikal-Amur Mainline". Soviet Geography Review and Translation , June...London, June 23, 1978 BIRYUKOV V 1975 . "The Baykal-Amur Mainline. A major construction project". Soviet Geography...
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The Soviet Far East Military Buildup: Nuclear Dilemmas and Asian Security
Book by Richard H. Solomon, Masataka Kosaka; Auburn House, 1986
Subjects: East Asia--Military Relations--Soviet Union, National Security--East Asia, Soviet Union--Military Policy, Soviet Union--Military Relations--East Asia
...Southeast Asian Nations ASM Air-to-surface missile ASuW Antisurface ship warfare ASW Antisubmarine warfare BAM Baykal-Amur Mainline Railroad C3 Command, control and communications C3I Command, control, communications, and intelligence CIA...


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Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy. the Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia out in the Cold
Journal article by Milka Bliznakov; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (Book)--Book reviews
...security reasons (1960s-1980s). The completion of the Baykal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in 1986 was a major investment at the time when...reach the Far East. A new town, Komsomolsk on the Amur river, was already discussed in 1925 (at the fourteenth...


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Baykal-Amur Mainline
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BAYKAL-AMUR MAINLINE (BAM), railroad line linking central Siberian Russia with the Pacific...parallels the Trans-Siberian RR but passes north rather than south of Lake Baykal. It is 1,928 mi (3,102 km) long, with 1,987 bridges. Its...
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Siberia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...follows the steppe belt), on the Baykal-Amur Mainline (BAM), and to an increasing...South of the uplands lies Lake Baykal, the worlds deepest lake, surrounded...River between Irkutsk and Lake Baykal. Forestry, like mining, is...
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Russian Far East
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Territory , Kamchatka Territory, the Amur, Magadan, and Sakhalin regions...section. In the south are the fertile Amur and Ussuri river valleys. More...include the Trans-Siberian RR , the Baykal-Amur Mainline (BAM), and the Amur River. History...
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the original line at Chita to follow, roughly, the Amur and Ussuri rivers and reaches Vladivostok by way of...Yekaterinburg. A branch to Ust-Kut connects with the Baykal-Amur Mainline (BAM). The railroad is also linked with the Turkistan...
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Tatar Strait
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...with the Sea of Okhotsk, in the north. Sovyetskaya Gavan, a fishing port, naval base, and terminus for the Baykal-Amur Mainline (BAM) is on the strait. Pipelines across the strait link Sakhalins oil fields with mainland refineries...
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