Alexander Snovsky - Dead Track Prisoner
He never forgot and did everything he could to make sure it would not be forgotten. Arrested 1949 in Leningrad, sent to build a railway in northern...
Yanov Stan is a meteorological station on the Turukhan River. One of the main construction centres during the building of the Dead Road.
Today just two meteorologists live at the station (they receive supplies just once a year; the nearest human settlement is 200 kilometres away). Today four pillars remain from a large bridge prisoners built across the Turukhan; there are also at least two overturned locomotives and other railway equipment. The bridge and locomotive can be viewed here.
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