501-ая стройка
Трансполярная магистраль

Как добраться. Транспорт

Из Москвы можно прибыть на поезде в г. Лабытнанги, на противоположном берегу Оби от которого - город Салехард (сюда летают самолеты из столицы). Далее от Салехарда до Надыма надо идти по дороге пешком, преодолевая разрушившиеся и полуразрушившиеся мосты через реки, страдая летом от комаров и гнуса. Из Надыма авиарейсы имеются в Москву, Тюмень и другие города страны.


Описание (английский)

The 1,524 mm (5 ft) broad gauge Salekhard–Igarka Railway, (Трансполярная магистраль, Transpolyarnaya Magistral - "Transpolar Mainline") also referred to variously as Мёртвая дорога (Dead Road), and Stalinbahn, is an incomplete railway in northern Siberia. The railway was a project of the Soviet Gulag system that took place from 1947 to 1953. Construction was coordinated via two separate Gulag projects, the 501 Railroad beginning on the River Ob and 503 Railroad beginning on the River Yenisey, part of a grand design of Joseph Stalin to span a railroad across northern Siberia to reach the Soviet Union's easternmost territories.
 
The planned route from Igarka to Salekhard measured 1,297 kilometres (806 mi) in length. The project was built mostly with prisoner labour, particularly that of political prisoners, and thousands perished.
 
A rebuilt section of the railway between Salekhard and Novy Urengoy on the east bank of the Nadym River is still in operation, as is the extreme western section connecting Labytnangi and the railway to Vorkuta. The section from Salekhard to Nadym is planned to be rebuilt, including a new bridge over the Ob to connect Salekhard to the rest of the Russian railway system via Labytnangi. The section from Nadym to Pangody is also planned to be rebuilt.