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	Stalin's Lost railway

R_P_R

6-3-2009 11:58 PM

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Possibly first photo belongs to an abandoned Soviet gulag.

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6-4-2009 12:00 AM

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The Abkhazia station on a separte clip.

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new “independent” republics couldn’t maintain the complicated and high-cost USSR 
legacy objects. But this one was abandoned long before the USSR collapse, it was 
doomed to be abandoned from the beginning. It was built by a personal Stalin’s 
order in <SPAN class=IL_LINK_STYLE 
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: #3c6491; BORDER-BOTTOM: #3c6491 1px solid; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', Helvetica, Sans-Serif; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">the 
middle of nowhere</SPAN> - deep inside Northern Siberia between Salekhard city 
and Igarka town. It was not connected with any other Russian Federal Railway 
System and the purpose of it still is not very clear, so as a senseless toy it 
way abandoned pretty soon and now rusts accessible only with a helicopter</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=1305"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/875EC5E3-E17F-4CB7-BF18-7C229E99D974" alt="Igarka Salehard abandoned railway in Russia 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=1305"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/10994ABD-EB44-41F8-AE80-FB3E05A56C7E" alt="Igarka Salehard abandoned railway in Russia 5" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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