Biggest city on Baikal-Amur Mainline marking 40th anniversary of railway

BLAGOVESHCHENSK, July 8 (Itar-Tass) - A symbolic coupling of trains is expected to take place at the railway station in the town of Tynda, Russia’s Far Eastern Amur region, to commemorate the 40th anniversary since the start of construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM), the press service of the regional government said. Specialized train will bring the veterans of this momentous construction project of the 1970’s and the 1980’s to Tynda from two opposite directions - Khabarovsk in the Pacific party of the country and Irkutsk, west of Lake Baikal. Participants in the coupling of trains will be among the arriving veterans, Several events have been timed for the jubilee functions. A training center of the Far-Eastern territorial division of the Russian state railway corporation RZD to train the most needed specialists like construction team supervisors and track servicemen will be opened on the square in front of the railway station. Then a conference on development of the Baikal-Amur Mainline will be held in Tynda. More than a hundred government officials and business executives will discuss the future of BAM, one of the longest railway lines in Eastern Siberia and the Far East that runs across the territories of Irkutsk region, the republic of Buryatia, and Trans-Baikal territory, the Amur region, the republic of Yakutia-Saha, and the Khabarovsk territory. The projected was launched at the end of the 1930’s but was laid up due to the outbreak of World War II. It was re-launched in 1974. Learn more on itar-tass.com