The Siberian BAM Guide: Rail, Rivers & Road: North-East Russia's Siberian BAM Railway, Lena River & Kolyma Highway (Trailblazer Guides)

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Expanded from the first edition (Siberian BAM Railway Guide) this book now also includes other forms of transport in this fascinating but rarely-visited north-eastern corner of Russia, the Siberian BAM region. Note: this book covers a different area from the Trans-Siberian Handbook (also from Trailblazer).

* Practical information - full details of how to get to the region, where to stay, what to see and how to get around; plus 30 maps

* City guides and maps - Taishet, Bratsk, Zheleznogorsk-Ilimski, Ust-Kut, Lena, Severobaikalsk, Nizhneangarsk, Taksimo, Kuanda, Novaya Chara, Tynda, Novy Urgal, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Amursk, Vanino, Sovetskaya Gavan, Khabarovsk, Kirensk, Magadan, Aldan & Yakutsk

* BAM Railway route guide - covering the 3400km of mountain railway, closed until 1991, from north of Lake Baikal to the Pacific, with detailed information on how to take the train and what to see

* Lena River route guide - the entire river from source to Arctic Ocean, including the 1988km served by steam-driven passenger boats

* Kolyma Highway route guide - the rugged land route from Yakutsk to Magadan, built by Stalin's political prisoners