the Baikal-Amur Mainline

Major engineering achievement will connect Russia’s largest region to Moscow by train for the first time.

Many dozens of skeletons, bones and coffins from old graveyard found as water level lowers.

After a series of delays, Prime Minister orders the line to Russia’s diamond capital Yakutsk to be ready for the first passengers by July.

First cargo train on the final link of Amur-Yakutsk line in historic expansion of Siberia's great railways.

Travel for the first time by train to Russia's diamond capital, the coldest city in the world!

Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.

One estimate is half a million new jobs stemming from improvements to the Baikal-Amur Mainline link amid hopes of foreign investment.

Inside the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East of Russia - exclusive pictures.