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Siberian BAM Guide: rail, rivers & road
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Contents list
Contents list | Introduction | Planning your trip | Itineraries | Sample route guide
PART 1: PLANNING YOUR TRIP
Getting information 9
Getting there
To Russia 11 - The visa 11 - To the north-east and the BAM 12
Itineraries
Six-day tour of the BAM 13 - Tour of the Lena and Yakutsk 15 - Along the AYaAD and AYaM from Yakutsk to Tynda 16
Travel arrangements
Travel agents 17
Travelling conditions
Costs 19 - Money, travellers' cheques and credit cards 20 - When to go 20 - Health 22 - Russian language 24 - Electricity 24
What to take
What to take checklist 26
PART 2: EN ROUTE
Train travel
Types of trains 27 - Life on a passenger train 27 - Passenger carriages 31 - Buying railway tickets 35 - Changing your ticket 40 - If you can't get a ticket 40 - Getting off in the middle of nowhere 40
Other methods of transport
Road transport 41 - Air transport 41 - River transport 42
Around a town
Orientation 46 - Getting around 46 -ñ Where to stay 47 - Eating 49 - What to see 51 - Post and telecommunications 52
Security and police
Types of police 55 - The Passport Bureau 57 - Crime on the railways 57
Customs and manners 57
Part 3: BAM MAINLINE ROUTES
Taishet-Bratsk 61
Bratsk-Ust-Kut 67
Ust-Kut-Severobaikalsk 76
Severobaikalsk 84
Exploring North Baikal 91
Severobaikalsk-Novaya Chara 100
Novaya CharañTynda 124
Tynda-Novy Urgal 135
Novy Urgal-Komsomolsk-na-Amure 157
Komsomolsk-na-Amure and region 167
Komsomolsk-na-AmureñSovetskaya Gavan 187
Part 4: BAM BRANCH LINE ROUTES
Khrebtovaya-Ust-Ilimsk 206
Bamovskaya-Tynda (The Little BAM) 207
Izvestkovaya-Novy UrgalñChegdomyn 210
Khabarovsk-Komsomolsk-na-Amure by train 215
Khabarovsk-Komsomolsk-na-Amure-Nikolaevsk-na-Amure by river 224
Part 5: REPUBLIC OF SAKHA
Sakha and Yakutsk via the Lena River and AYaM 229
The AYaM: Tynda-Neryungri-Aldan-Yakutsk 262
The Kolyma Highway: Yakutsk-Magadan 279
APPENDICES
A: History of the BAM 291 - B: Life in the north-east 317
C: Russian language guide 347 - D: Glossary 351
E: Further study 355 - F: BAM Mainline Timetables 361
ROUTE MAPS 365-72
Siberian BAM Guide: rail, rivers & road
Excerpts:
- Contents list
- Introduction
- Planning your trip
- Itineraries
- Sample route guide
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