Museums: The Grodekov Museum in Khabarovsk hosts the exhibition "BAM 4.0"

July 4 at the Grodekov Museum in Khabarovsk opened the exhibition "BAM 4.0" in the Year of Culture of Russia to mark the 40th anniversary of the beginning of construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM). BAM is now the largest railway line in the world. Along the Trans-Siberian, it serves as the second through Russia's withdrawal to the Pacific Ocean. The first attempts to highway construction date back to the 30s of the XX century, to the imminent highway from the Trans-Siberian BAM summed three trunks, but in 1953, further work has been preserved. July 8, 1974 was the second birth of BAM at the Khabarovsk Territory had to go through eastern section of the line length of 700 km. November 2, 1989 all the road was put into operation.

In 1970-1980s the museum specialists in hot pursuit of highway construction created a large collection of artifacts, which is presented in this exhibition. Among them: things of Khabarovsk "ship groups" who built Suluk station, a plaque with the name of the first street of the village Urgal-2, a variety of tools, symbolic laying railroad spikes with "silver" and other parts of the route.

Many towns and stations on the eastern portion of the BAM were erected by BAM builders from Ukraine, Moldova and Tajikistan. A large section of the exhibition will demonstrate their work, the construction of distinctive, original architecture by railway stations.

A surprise for the visitors was the reconstruction of the experimental housing at BAM in the form of a barrel, cabins, builders received the name "barrel of Diogenes".