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|} The broad gauge Salekhard–Igarka Railway, (, Transpolyarnaya Magistral - "Transpolar Mainline") also referred to variously as ''Мёртвая дорога'' (''Dead Road''), and ''Stalinbahn'', is an incomplete railway in northern Siberia. The railway was a project of the Soviet Gulag system that took place from 1947 to 1953. Construction was coordinated via two separate Gulag projects, the ''501 Railroad'' beginning on the River Ob and ''503 Railroad'' beginning on the River Yenisey, part of a grand design of Joseph Stalin to span a railroad across northern Siberia to reach the Soviet Union's easternmost territories. The planned route from Igarka to Salekhard measured in length. The project was built mostly with prisoner labour, particularly that of political prisoners,〔(Gulag Memorial )〕 and thousands perished.〔〔(JENISSEI-ITL UND BAU 503 )〕 A rebuilt section of the railway between Novy Urengoy and Stary Nadym on the east bank of the Nadym River is still in operation, as is the extreme western section connecting Labytnangi and the railway to Vorkuta. The section from Salekhard and Nadym is planned to be rebuilt,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Marchmont )〕 including a new bridge over the Ob to connect Salekhard to the rest of the Russian railway system via Labytnangi. ==Purpose== The purpose of the railway was threefold: to facilitate export of nickel from neighbouring Norilsk; to provide work for thousands of post-war prisoners; and to connect the deep-water seaports of Igarka and Salekhard with the western Russian railway network. With Soviet industry relocated to western Siberia during World War II, it was seen as a strategic advantage to use the northward-flowing river systems to deliver supplies to Arctic Ocean ports. Salekhard was on the Ob River, downstream from Novosibirsk and Omsk, and Igarka was on the Yenisei, which flowed north from Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and the mountains around Lake Baikal 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「Salekhard–Igarka Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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