The railway is close to Yakutsk. On April 27, 2010, Yakutia-Sakha News Agency reported that the Berkakit – Tommot – Yakutsk railway construction had reached the border of the Khangalassky region. TransStroy-Vostok has already completed 644 km. The 1st train is expected to arrive at Nizhnyj Bestyakh Station (on the opposite bank of the Lena River in front of Yakutsk) in 2013. The construction of the bridge of the Lena River will be started this year.

See more winter photographs taken by Antonina Bochkareva on the bridge over the Amga River (the midst of the Berkakit – Yakutsk railway) in December of 2008. The outdoor temperature was -53C. Read the rest of this entry…

It takes a set of brass balls to drive over this thing. 570 meter (1870 feet) long Vitim River bridge. The bridge is 15 meters above the water and has no railings. Located in Yakutia.

By now the video from passing through the bridge on the Vitim River has got over a million hits on the Internet. The video became as the Internet meme. Read the rest of this entry…