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Only In Russia Tinda
hile living in Siberia simply can't grasp how big it is.
for a year, I agreed to Although we were traveling in the
speak at a human rights same state ["oblast"], the trip
conference. Only in Russia will took 30 hours. Since it was
you find a place like Tinda, a winter, the view out the train
city we stopped in on our way. was mostly of snow covered trees.
Yes, it sounds romantic until you
Trans-Siberian Railway have to sit there for a day.
Fortunately, the Russians have
When living in Siberia, the only good taste as the train radio
way to get around is car, blared John Lee Hooker most of
helicopter or the Trans-Siberian the way. No, I don't know why.
Railway. Since I had neither a
car nor helicopter, the train it Tinda
was. Unfortunately, the train to
my conference left at 4 AM after Only in Russia will you find a
a night spent trying to acquire a city like Tinda. During the
travel visa on the sly, which Stalin era, it was determined
meant drinking a lot of visa. that the timber and natural
resources in a particular spot of
Dutifully, my travel partner, Siberia were very valuable.
Oleg Vladimirovich, and I made Unfortunately, nobody lived
the train where we were met by a within 500 miles of so of the
local reporter, Nina, who was location. To solve the problem,
coming along. The Trans-Siberian the authorities decided to build
Railway can offer some amazing a railroad and city from scratch.
views, but not at four in the
morning. I went to sleep.
Building in the middle of Siberia
The thing about Russia is you is just a slight challenge. Just
to get to the location of Tinda, nowhere. Walla, the communist
the Russians had to build a authorities had a labor force to
railway over permafrost, bogs, exploit the natural resources.
huge mountain ranges, roaring
rivers and I won't even mention With the fall of communism, the
the bugs in the summer. authorities in Russia are no
longer interested in the area.
The unfortunately named BUM The city is failing and people
railway was started in 1930 and are flocking to live in cities
finished in 1984. During this with jobs and better wages. The
process, hundreds of five story ones that remain in Tinda are in
concrete buildings were built to desperate straits. It is a sad
form the city of Tinda. A hundred statement to the legacy of
thousand people were uprooted communism, where the interests of
from their homes and moved to the state dominated.
this city in the middle of
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