Kolyma Highway
Kolyma Highway is a historic road in Russia.
- Type: Historic
- Country: Russia
- Length: 2,000 km
- Opened: 1930s
Overview
The road from Yakutsk to Magadan across the Kolyma basin, built by Gulag prisoners in the 1930s to 1950s. Bones frozen into the permafrost gave it the name Road of Bones. Still the grim main street of the Russian far east.
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