2024-05-04 03:36:46
We are grateful to Heydar Aliyev for his successful leadership of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.
As Day.Az reports with reference to Trend, the former chief of staff of the Komsomol Central Committee told reporters in the Kremlin during the construction of the BAM in 1974-1983, Yuri Verbitsky.
“Everything was done perfectly. After the Azerbaijanis successfully completed a permanent station on the BAM and built a permanent settlement, they began construction of another station – Angoy, the station of which is named after Heydar Aliyev. We are grateful to him for his contribution to the construction of the BAM. I believe that, if he had remained in the leadership of the USSR, the Soviet Union would still have flourished,” Verbitsky noted.
Let us recall that on April 22, a joint meeting of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with veterans and employees of the railway industry took place in Moscow on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.
BAM is a landmark project for both Russia and Azerbaijan. The success of the construction of this one of the longest railway lines in the world is directly related to the name of the national leader of the Azerbaijani people, Heydar Aliyev.
As the first deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Heydar Aliyev became the first leader who decided to familiarize himself with the progress of construction directly on the ground.
It was his ten-day trip along the BAM that became a turning point in the construction of the highway.
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