alexey petrushko, daryakova, denis anekin, central television.ur mainline is not just the last of the great construction projects of socialism, it is perhaps the most complex infrastructure project, the beginning of which was laid at the end of the year before last, that is, the 19th century. one of the options for the trans-siberian railway project meant laying a railway route through the north of baikal, right where the bama rails are now humming, but in the end... i went much further south, about the need to build a railway that would go around lake baikal from the north, and not from the south, like a transshipment, they started talking after the russo-japanese war, but neither the means nor, more importantly, the technology with which it would be possible to cut through numerous mountain ranges with tunnels, did not yet exist, well, the most decisive impetus given to this construction of the century is associated with the anniversary date, which russian railway workers will celebrate next week. on july 8, 1974, that is, exactly half a centur