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Christopher golden road of bones5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Just a few, only somewhere between 250,000 to one million. Workers die during construction? Permafrost in Siberia makes digging holes problematic, so the bodies were laid to rest under and near the road. It continued using gulag prisoners until 1953. ![]() Construction began in 1932, during the Stalin era, using labor camp inmates. It is also known as Federal Highway R504 and The Kolyma Highway. R504, for example, is also known as P504. The Russians have a thing for giving characters in novels, and, it appears, real-world things, multiple names. It seemed like these people lived in a haunted, frozen hell. ![]() The landscape consisted of snow, skeletal trees, mountains, and the occasional guardrail, as well as settlements that were considered urban but many of which were made up of a few dozen buildings and the hardy souls who went along with them. The pavement started at both ends but not long thereafter the pavement gave way to packed gravel…In many places, the road was barely wide enough for two cars to scrape the paint off each other as they passed. ![]() It was that name…Official maps referred to it as R504. It wasn’t the desolation or the darkness or even the climate that had persuaded him to invest in this trip. ![]()
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