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This December Aldo van den Broek, Jelle Brandt Corstius and Fabian Hahne travel through one of the coldest parts on earth. This trip will carry them by train through the deep forest of Siberia along the unexplored BAM (Baikal Amur Magistrale) railwayline, a northern branch of the famous Transsiberia Express. With the outcome, a cooperation project where art, literature, photography and film will come together in a multimedia ‘gesamtkunstwerk’.

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BRATSK

Bratsk (Russian: Братск) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir.

Population: 246,319 (2010) 255,705 (1989).

– Source: Wikipedia.

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”

― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.

"There is no such thing as an ugly woman,
just too little vodka"

– fellow passenger

BRATSK

SEVEROBAJKALSK

Severobaikalsk (Russian: Северобайкальск) is a town located on the northern end of Lake Baikal in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia,

Population: 24,929 (2010) 28,336 (1989)

– Source: Wikipedia.

“What's that fire there?
– They are tearing down the old neighbourhood, with some wind it will go way quicker.”

― Vasil, former constructor of the BAM

SEVEROBAJKALSK

NOVAYA CHARA

Novaya Chara (Russian: Новая Чара) is an urban locality in Kalarsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.

Population: 4,315 (2010) 8,787 (1989)

– Source: Wikipedia.

"We would like to try out a Kalashnikov, is that possible here?
– Who do you want to shoot?"

NOVAYA CHARA

TYNDA

Tynda (Russian: Тьнда) is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. It is an important railway junction, informally referred to as the capital of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

Population: 36,275 (2010) 61,996 (1989)

– Source: Wikipedia.

"Don't take your hat off,
that's impolite to Putin"

– Thalmann, the butcher.

TYNDA

NERYUNGRI

Neryungri (Russian: Нерюнгри) is the second largest town and the administrative center of  Neryungrinsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia.

Population 61,747 (2010)

– Source: Wikipedia.

"A beautiful place to commit suicide"

– Maxim, former mineworker

"In Russia you don't have roads,
only directions"

– Maxim, former mineworker