Global Road Miracle: 50,000 People Built in 21 Years, 170,000 people are buried under the roadbed.
How difficult is the most difficult road in the world?Russia's M56, known as the "Road of Death" and "Road of Bones", mobilized 50,000 people and took 21 years to build this road. Chillingly, the remains of 17,000 victims are still buried on the more than 2,030-meter road.
At the beginning of the Soviet Union, many impoverished "little brothers" turned to them for help, and they could only turn their attention to the oil-rich Magadan region, the Far East, which is famous for its gold, silver, tungsten and oil reserves. In 1925, the world's longest and most connecting national highway began.
From Moscow it passed through Novosibirsk and Irkutsk, then it split into two branches, and then into two. If the road to Nakhodka is the only way to the Sea of Japan and Haisenwei, then the road to Magadan is exactly the road to **and**. Unexpectedly, the 2,030-mile-long "Road of Bones" stretches from Yakutsk to Magadan over a period of 21 years.
What is going on with this "road of bones"?These are real bones, and there are more than 17,000 of them.
There were only a few thousand people when the road was built, but in less than six months, hundreds of people died, 65 percent of the road was in the wilderness of the Far East, the temperature even reached minus 64 degrees Celsius in winter, and the difficulty of transportation and transportation was far beyond their imagination.
The deeper you go into the Far East, the more difficult it is to build the permafrost, and by the time the Soviets were in the Gulag prison, the number of prisoners had reached 476. After hearing the proposal to "send prisoners to the Far East to build roads", all the decision-makers agreed. It didn't take long for all the Allied forces to receive instructions to "cooperate fully".
For the first time, as many as 3,000 prisoners of war came from Georgia, and it was said that all NATO countries voted in favor, with only the Georgians dissenting;The second country is 2500 Estonians, and the third is the Armenian ...... "everyone can be bullied."In 21 years, another 50,000 non-Russians were sent to build roads.
The 50,000 prison workers are between minus 30 and minus 50 degrees Celsius, and they are working bare-handed because there is not enough equipment to transport them to no-man's land. Soon, there was a dead air on the Kolyma road, and every day people fainted from their work. As for the dead soldiers, they also did not have the strength to build tombstones for them, so they could only bury them on frozen roads.
At its peak, the time to transport the prisoners could not keep up with the dead miners, which greatly hampered construction. It was only in the 50s that the USSR stopped the distribution of prisoners and issued a ban on asphalt and concrete on roads, and due to the lack of sufficient technology, this "road of bones" became history.
Although the Far East has a freeze period of six to ten months per year, in some places the temperature can exceed 20 degrees Celsius in the summer, and the permafrost in the winter will melt the snow and ice on the surface in the summer, and the road surface will become a swamp. In 196, after a heavy rain, an oil truck was trapped in the mud and sent a distress signal, but rescuers found only five skeletons under the car.
Since then, the Kolyma Highway was littered with bones, many times collected on the road in large trucks, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the road was abandoned due to the closure of the oil mines. The names "Road of Bones" and "Road of Death" were confirmed, and the first to be mentioned, "The Gulag: A History", attracted worldwide attention.
After many historians' investigations and investigations, they found that 17,000 people were buried in the city. Russia sent a force to clean up the Far East oil fields before it was restarted, and although there are only a few corpses left, from time to time people report their location or send their bones to their destinations, which can be called the "road of bones".
Unlike other roads, which are closed in summer and closed in winter, the Kolyma road is only open in winter and has been closed in summer for 10 years. There are many accidents on mud roads in summer, especially large trucks are most likely to slipMaybe it's because the job of the bone pickers is so terrible that they have to close the warehouse.
Even if Russia can invest such a huge amount of money, if it wants to make a breakthrough in the new process of building roads in permafrost areas, it is only a matter of spending money, it is better to directly declare it the most difficult road in the world, and then ignore it with confidence, how good would it be?