A series of videos about a journey along on the BAM, which was the construction site of the century, the most expensive and complex infrastructure facility in the USSR.
Vanino is a working village almost at the very end of the BAM. Most of the settlements on the line Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Sovetskaya Gavan owe the railway, if not their foundation, then their growth. Vanino is no exception, although the bay appeared on Russian maps back in 1853, the main growth of the village and port itself began in 1943.
The village of Oktyabrsky, Vaninsky district, in which the Sovetskaya Gavan-Sortirovochnaya station is located. From its founding until 1959, the village was part of the city of Sovetskaya Gavan. Since 1959, it was allocated as a separate village in the Sovetsko-Gavansky district, but in 1974 the village was transferred to the Vaninsky district, and the name of the station was preserved. Also preserved here is the 1947 train station, which was built by Japanese prisoners of war.
The working village of Zavety (Testaments of) Ilyich, Sovetsko-Gavansky district, was founded back in the 1920s as the fishing village of Novoastrakhanskoye. In 1934 it was renamed Zavety Ilyich, and in 1943 it began to become heavily militarized. After the global collapse of the Soviet Union, the village experienced a local collapse with a significant outflow of population, primarily military.
(The Pivan - Sovetskaya Gavan line has its own mileage, which is indicated in brackets):
Vanino station is 4267 (432) km of the BAM.
Sovetskaya Gavan-Sortirovochnaya station is 4277 (442) km of the BAM.
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16 май 2024
