Some vievs of Old Kolyma Road

TonY60 · August 15, 2019, 10:46am

Cutting from shots taken last year’s Far Eastern journey

Video including the vildest site of THIS (wikimapia.org) road

Some people call this road - Road of Bones. And partly they are right.

If anyone is interested in the details - go to my Map

UPD About Road of Bones (ROB). This road was built in the Stalin’s era - era of the Great communist terror, by the hands of prisoners. In this places, in summer the heat is up to +35 degrees Celsius, and in winter frosts up -60 degrees. Very poor diet in addition. Many prisoners who could not stand such conditions were buried right in the roadway.

According to historians, about 900,000 people were serving sentences in Kolyma region from 1929 to 1956, of which about 20% were political prisoners.

AdamGT · August 15, 2019, 1:08pm

So why is it referred to as the Road of Bones @TonY60

TonY60 · August 15, 2019, 2:01pm

This road was built in the Stalin’s era - era of the Great communist terror, by the hands of prisoners. In this places, in summer the heat is up to +35 degrees Celsius, and in winter frosts up -60 degrees. Very poor diet in addition. Many prisoners who could not stand such conditions were buried right in the roadway

MortenSI · August 16, 2019, 6:38am

It looks nerve wrecking @TonY60 , a lot of challenging obstacles to cross.

How did you continue from the road had collapsed? it seems there’s no way forward.

TonY60 · August 16, 2019, 7:11am

We owercame it all) built a “decking” of larch

We are not the first, not we are the last)

MortenSI · August 16, 2019, 7:26am

That’s incredible @TonY60 , and a very bold move, I could just imagine the car getting stuck in that pit.

It seems you were prepared for everything. Was the worst obstacles you had to get across?

TonY60 · August 16, 2019, 8:50am

There is no connection with the outside world within a radius about 100 kilometers, approximately in the middle of this route. Hope only for ourself)

We are already famillar to a lot) And this is far from the worst that we or anyone had to overcome

MortenSI · August 16, 2019, 10:41am

I guess it’s a good idea to bring food for several days then @TonY60 , in case you would get stuck somewhere.

I looks like it takes a lot of knowledge, experience and courage to go on such a trip.

TonY60 · August 16, 2019, 11:18am

When we did it first time ii 2008, we almost had’nt experience. Only curiosity and fear) But experience is accumulating and fear goes away)

MortenSI · August 19, 2019, 7:07am

You’re absolutely right @TonY60 , I believe experience will cancel out fear over time. The only way to make it happen is by going in head first.

Have you been on many of these trips far away from everything?