The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
A trip along the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM).
Khabarovsk
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| Khabarovsk Station
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| Lenin Square
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| Khabarovsk Lenin
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| Khabarovsk Lenin
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| Monument to the Heroes of the Civil War
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| Monument to the Heroes of the Civil War
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| The Mighty Amur River
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| Lenin + Civil War Soldier
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| Lenin + Civil War Soldier
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| Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral
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| "Monument to Glory"
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| WWII Memorial, with names of the dead
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| Memorial to Foreign Wars
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| Cathedral of the Assumption
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| "City of Military Glory" Stela
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Khabarovsk to Vanino
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| Khabarovsk to Komsomolsk
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| Khabarovsk to Komsomolsk
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| Khabarovsk to Komsomolsk
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| Khabarovsk to Komsomolsk
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| Through Komsomolsk na Amur
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| Komsomolsk to Vanino
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| Komsomolsk to Vanino
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| Komsomolsk to Vanino: Pacific coast
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Sovetskaya-Gavan
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| Sovetskaya-Gavan Lenin
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| Sovetskaya-Gavan Lenin
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| Sovetskaya-Gavan Lenin
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| "Fighters in Foreign Wars"
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| Victory Obelisk: "May 9th"
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| Ocean view from Sovetskaya-Gavan
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Vanino
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| Lighthouse Monument #1
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| Lighthouse Monument #2
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| Concrete Lenin obelisk
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| Victory Day poster
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| Hilltop WWII Obelisk
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| Vanino port
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Vanino to Komsomolsk na Amur
I started my BAM journey from Sovetskaya-Gavan Sort, the most Easterly station on the BAM.
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| Sovetskaya-Gavan Sort
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| Vanino port
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Komsomolsk na Amur
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| Monument to the Pioneers
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| Komsomolsk Pioneers
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| Komsomolsk Lenin
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| Komsomolsk Lenin
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| The Mighty Amur
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| WWII Memorial
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| WWII Memorial
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| Alley of the Marshals
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| Stalin bust
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| Stalin bust
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| Japanese Prisoners Monument
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| Regional History Museum
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| Museum: Pioneer Diorama
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| Museum: The Dark Side of Construction
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May Day March
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| May Day March
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| Fine Propaganda Banner
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Komsomolsk to Tynda
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| Komsomolsk na Amur station
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| Novy Urgal Station
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| Novy Urgal: BAM Monument
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| Novy Urgal Station
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| Comfortable, private, second class compartment
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Tynda
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| Tynda WWII Memorial
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| Tynda Lenin
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| Holy Trinity Church
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| BAM Builders Monument
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| BAM Builders Monument
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| Another BAM Monument
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| BAM Monument: Cart, guitar, helmet, cap,...
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| BAM Museum. (But it was closed.)
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Tynda to Severobaikalsk
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| Plane Monument at Taksimo
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| Quick stop at Novyy Uoyan
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Severobaikalsk
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| Approaching Lake Baikal
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| Lake Baikal
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| Lake Baikal
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| WWII Memorial
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| WWII Memorial
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| Church of Our Lady of Kazan
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BAM Builders Monument
Erected in 2014
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| BAM Builders Monument
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| Severobaikalsk Station: Intended to evoke a ship?
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| West of Baikal
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Bratsk
The Mighty Bratsk Dam
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| Crossing the Bratsk Dam by train, looking North
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| Dam and Generator House, from the North
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Dam Builders Monument
With statue of the Chief Architect
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| One of many sluice gates
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| Angora River, north of the Dam
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View from the reservoir North to the dam
(That's ice on the reservoir surface)
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Around Bratsk
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| Tiny Shrine, near Station
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| Monument to "The Internationalists"
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| Bratsk Lenin. Waiting for Victory Day
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| Local History Museum
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| West of Bratsk
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Taishet
The western end of the BAM, at Taishet, where it joins the main Trans-Siberian line.
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| Taishet Station
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| BAM Marker
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| Taishet Lenin
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| West of Taishet
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Krasnoyarsk
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| Krasnoyarsk City Emblem
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| Mosaic near station
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| Giant Krasnoyarsk Lenin
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| Giant Krasnoyarsk Lenin
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| Lenin at the Siberian Technological University
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| Seated, studious Lenin
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| Krasnoyarsk Communist Party HQ
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| Intercession Cathedral
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| Intercession Cathedral (1795)
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| Yenisey River
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| Local Studies Museum
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| Mammoth
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| Replica of a 16th-17th c river exploration ship
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Novosibirsk
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| Novosibirsk Station
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| Lenin + Acolytes
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| Lenin's traffic wardens
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| Novosibirsk Opera House
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| Novosibirsk Opera House
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| Ob River
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| Imperator Alexander III
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| Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
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| Nicholas II and son, at Nevsky Cathedral
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| Coffee Kiosk: with English language!
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| Regional History Museum: Partisan home-made gun ~1920
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| Regional History Museum: A face from the past
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