Circum-Baikal Railway Museuml - Музей истории Восточно-Сибирской железной дороги ст

665921 Port Baikal - Байка́л (порт), Russian Federation (Irkutskaya oblast)

География

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The 100th anniversary of the railway was celebrated in the autumn of 2005. For this event the Baikal station was reconstructed, in which an exhibit was opened, devoted to the Circum-Baikal. The Sludyanka station was also rebuilt.

The Circum-Baikal Railwa) is a historical railway in the Irkutsk region of Russia. It runs along the Northern shore of the Southern extremity of the lake from the town of Slyudyanka to the Baikal settlement. Until the middle of the 20th century the Circum-Baikal railway was part of the main line of Trans-Siberian Railway; later on, however, a duplicate section of the railway was built. Sometimes called a unique achievement in engineering, the Circum-Baikal is one of the picturesque sights of the area around Lake Baikal.

History

When the Siberian railway, later called the "Trans-Siberian Railway" was being designed, it was divided into seven sections. Circum-Baikal railway was one of these, being the section from Irkutsk to Mysovaya wharf (now the town of Babushkin on the South-Eastern shore of Lake Baikal.

Current condition

At the present time the Circum-Baikal Railway is the name of an 89-km–long branch covering the route Slyudyanka-2–Kultuk–Maritui–Baikal. Four stations are currently in operation: Kultuk, Maritui, Ulanovo, and Baikal, with one section of double track at 137 km. The Circum-Baikal contains thirty-eight tunnels with a total length of 9063 m (the longest of them, a tunnel through cape Polovinnyj, is 777.5 m long). There are also 15 stone galleries with a total length of 295 m and 3 ferro-concrete galleries with apertures, 248 bridges and viaducts, and 268 retaining walls. The Circum-Baikal has no equal in Russia as to the richness of engineering constructions. The tunnels and stone galleries of the Circum-Baikal are unique in that they were constructed atypically and have not been reconstructed since, conserving the initial plan of architects and engineers of the beginning of the century.

The following establishments are also located on the Circum-Baikal:

at 80 km: a research experimental base, the Center for Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage

at 106 km: the base of a nuclear research institute

at 119–120 km (Maritui): a research area for students of the Biological and Soil Studies Department of the Irkutsk State University

100-летие железной дороги было отмечено осенью 2005 года. На этом мероприятии была восстановлена Байкальская станция, в которой открылась выставка, посвященная Круговому Байкалу.

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