The photo exhibition BAM 40 is dedicated to the 40th anniversary since the start of the Baikal-Amur Highway construction.
The exposition includes more than 400 TASS archival photos of 1974 - 1984 about the great construction project of the century. The visitors will see the history of the Baikal-Amur Highway in pictures: unique shots of railroad construction, everyday life of builders, as well as natural landscapes that will be shown to general public for the first time.
The exhibition will travel around other Russian cities: St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Voronezh, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Khabarovsk, and Sevastopol. The exhibition is also planned to be held in the CIS countries.
Author: Vera Ivanova