Baikal-Amur Mainline - The BAM Road

The BAM Road

Running approximately alongside the railway track is the BAM road, a railway service track. It is said to be in a very poor state, with collapsed bridges, dangerous river crossings, severe potholes and "unrelenting energy-sapping bogs". The road is passable only by the most extreme off-road vehicles and adventure motorcycles. A group of three experienced motorcycle riders recently took a whole month to travel from Komsomolsk (in the east) to Lake Baikal.

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