This colorful publication is dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway. The project is based on the idea of ​ ​ telling about the unique in scale and economic and social significance of the history of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway, about the events of the present, the prospects for the development of the highway and, in this regard, the prospects for the development of the Far East.