ABSTRACT
The BAM region refers to the territories situated along or connected to the Baikal-Amur Mainline. This is the most important Northern transportation route, a railroad system transecting six federal subjects of Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East and linking Eurasian countries with East Asia. The logistical and geopolitical importance of the transportation route in this sparsely populated Northern region, as well as its large mineral deposits of gold, copper, rare metals, and coal, prompted the railroad’s construction in the Soviet period. Recent socioeconomic trends show a renewed interest in the BAM, primarily to facilitate the extraction and transportation of mineral resources to Asian markets.
