Schoolchildren were told about the construction of the BAM

The museum program 'And all that is built will remain for the people', dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the start of BAM construction, was held at the A.N. Radishchev Museum for the pupils of the children's health camp 'Raduga' at the school in the village of Radishchevo, Kuznetsky District.

During the program, the children learned that the generation of the seventies was fortunate to take part in the grand construction project of the 20th century. From the shores of the largest freshwater body on the globe, Lake Baikal, to the Amur River (a distance of about 4,000 km), they laid steel rails. On their way rose majestic ranges with complex geological structures, multi-channel rivers, countless springs and streams. An innumerable number of seas, swamps and permafrost. When designing and constructing artificial structures, unique engineering solutions were applied that had no analogues in the world's practice of railway construction. This project, and later the railway itself, received the name Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM).

The children were told that over the entire history of BAM construction more than 2 million people took part in it, mostly young Komsomol members from the various republics of the Soviet Union. Brigades from the republics created stations that were unique in that they reflected national construction motifs or events commemorative for each station.

Program participants were told about the people’s labor feat, which inspired talented individuals to create. This is a whole host of BAM authors, among them Oleg Golovko, Ivan Shestak, Vladimir Yurinsky, Gennady Kuzmin, Vitaly Lukashenko, Vladimir Guziy, Alexander Simakov, Zhanna Rzhevskaya, Tamara Shulga, Nadezhda Puzyrevskaya. The children were able to become acquainted with their works.

At the conclusion of the program the schoolchildren concluded that the largest construction project of the 20th century – the BAM – became one of the symbols of the Soviet era and of Russia’s achievements in construction and infrastructure. It is very important that new generations know about this feat, and that the best labor traditions laid down by the pioneers of the line remain a true guide for those who today work on the BAM for the benefit of Russia.