More pix at link.
More pix at link.
LOL—She’s wearing heels!
Many don’t seem to realize that,in spite of all their oil,the USSR is a Third World country.Always has been and,if they continue their long history of psychopathic rulers,always will be.
I'd cut the Russians a little slack on this one. I'm not sure the technology exists to solve this problem.
Well, I see the platinum blond really knows how to dress for conditions ;-) How stupid can one get? I hope BP’s Mr. Haywood or Hayward? has fun in his new Siberian job.
I think it's more appropriate to say that centuries of the lack of free enterprise has squashed people's desire to fix problems. After all, why go through the effort and take the risk if there is no reward.
The USSR is the perfect example of Atlas Shrugging, en masse.
I bet if you dig deep enough into the sink hole you find some of Hitlers missing panzers.
Looks like Chicago this last weekend. The high heels were courtesy of Barry.
Ha,ha,ha! Those Ruskies are a laugh a minute.
Now really, who would even try this with anything less than a 4x4 hemi monster truck with 60 inch tires?
No wonder why they lost the cold war.
I THINK I’d be willing to give her a hand.
How can they call this a highway? How long would it take to go 600 miles on this thing.
The original Alaska Highway was built over similar terrain during WWII. Some of the building techniques were definitely “low tech” as in “corduroy roads” using trees laid side-by-side perpendicular to the direction of the road over the worst of the sinkholes.
You can build roads in this kind of muck - if you WANT to.
That’s not a road. It’s a mud hole. Typical lazy socialist non-construction.
Well built and maintained roads are symbol of a civilization that is functioning and thriving.
LMAO !
Add Jungle an ya have the Darian Gap road....
My vote for worst road versus risk of life like Bolivians death drive ....
Consider for a moment the fate of the inhabitants
of the Gulag, dropped off a train after traveling in
open cars, into the frozen tundra and being told
“This is where you will build your camp.”
The banks of some rivers are lined with bones.
The people who live in these conditions aren’t sissies.
Looks like the Obama Memorial Highway not too long after the economic collapse.
It sounds like this road was intended to be used in the winter when the river was frozen. The road surface would also be frozen, and trucks could travel over it. During the summer goods could travel by river. The road wasn’t intended for private cars or summer travelers.
I read once that there are more miles of paved road in Ohio than in Russia, and Ohio doesn’t cover eight time zones.
Obama’s economy will even thing out.
Edgewood after the snowmelt.
The city has a population of 210,642 (2002 Census)
Yakutsk is a destination of the Lena Highway. The city's connection to the highway is only accessible by ferry in the summer, or in the dead of winter, directly over the frozen Lena River, as Yakutsk lies entirely on its western bank, and there is no bridge anywhere in the Sakha Republic that crosses the Lena. The river is impassable for long periods of the year when it is full of loose ice, or when the ice cover is not sufficiently thick to support traffic, or when the water level is high and the river turbulent with spring flooding. The highway ends on the eastern bank of Lena in Nizhny Bestyakh (Нижний Бестях), an urban-type settlement of some four thousand people. Yakutsk is connected with Magadan in by the Kolyma Highway.
A dual-use railroad and roadway bridge over the Lena is scheduled to be built by 2013, when the Amur Yakutsk Mainline, the North-South railroad being extended from the South, will finally connect the city with the East-West Baikal Amur Mainline (the railway has reached a point some 260 km south of Yakutsk).
The bridge will be over 3 kilometers long and constructed 40 km upriver at Tabaga, where the river narrows and does not create a wide flooded area in spring. In the dead of winter, the frozen Lena makes for a passable highway for ice truckers using its channel to deliver provisions to far-flung outposts. Yakutsk is also connected to other parts of Russia by the Yakutsk Airport.
