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The R504 Kolyma Highway ((ロシア語:Федеральная автомобильная дорога «Колыма»), "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road through the Russian Far East. It connects Magadan with the town of Nizhny Bestyakh, located on the eastern bank of Lena River opposite Yakutsk. At Nizhny Bestyakh the Kolyma Highway connects to the Lena Highway. The Kolyma Highway is also known as the Road of Bones, as the skeletons of the forced laborers who died during its construction were used in much of its foundations. Locally, the road is known as Trassa ((ロシア語:Трасса) – "The Route"), or Kolymskaya trassa ((ロシア語:Колымская трасса) – "The Kolyma Route"), since it is the only road in the area and therefore needs no special name to distinguish it from other roads. ==History== The Dalstroy construction directorate built the Kolyma Highway during the USSR's Stalinist era. Inmates of the Sevvostlag labour camp started the first stretch in 1932, and construction continued with the use of gulag labour until 1953. The road is treated as a memorial, as the bones of the people who died while constructing it were laid beneath or around the road.〔Thompson G., (2002) ''Kolyma - The Road of Death''〕 As the road is built on permafrost, interment into the fabric of the road was deemed more practical than digging new holes to bury the bodies of the dead.〔 Middleton, Nick, ''Going to Extremes'' 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「R504 Kolyma Highway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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