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Krugo-Baikalskaya railway. Tour to Baikal lake.
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Krugo-Baikalskaya railway
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Krugo-Baikalskaya railway is stretched along the southern coast of the lake Baikal for 260 km, from a source of the
Angara river up to station Mysovaya. Its western site is especially unique. Circum-Baikal railway is 84 km of a rail
way from the port Baikal up to the station Kultuk, 39 tunnels (the general long is 9 063 m), 16 stone galleries,
about 400 bridges and viaducts, more than 200 retaining stone walls, tens kilometers of railway embankments.
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Its construction was begun in the spring in 1902. The first train has passed in September in 1904. Since the 16th of October in 1905 the site “Slyudyanka-Baikal” was put in operation of Transbaikalian railway Management.
In l982 Circum-Baikal railway was declared as the architecturally-landscape reserve and it was taken under protection of the state.
KRUGO-BAIKALSKAYA RAILWAY TOUR
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