Upgrading Russia's Baikal-Amur railway, which runs parallel but to the north of the Trans-Siberian, began in the nineteen-thirties, then resumed in the forties and fifties using German prisoners of war. Following a recent oil boom in Russia's far eastern provinces, further work is to be done, enabli
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