Editing Baikal–Amur Mainline (section)

===Crisis===
Beginning in the mid-1980s, the BAM project attracted increasing criticism for having been poorly planned. Infrastructure and basic services like running water were often not in place when workers arrived. At least 60 [[boomtown]]s developed along the route, but today many of these places are deserted [[ghost town]]s and unemployment in the area is high. The building of the BAM has also been criticised for its complete lack of environmental protection.<ref>{{cite book |author=Victor L. Mote |chapter=BAM after the fanfare: the unbearable ecumene |editor=John M. Steward |title=The Soviet environment: problems, policies and politics |publisher=Cambridge |year=1990 |pages=40–54 |isbn=9780521414180}}</ref>

When the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union was dissolved]], numerous mining and industrial projects in the region were cancelled and the BAM was greatly underutilized until the late 1990s, running at a large operational deficit.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

In 1996, the BAM as a single operational body was dissolved, with the western section from [[Tayshet]] to [[Khani, Sakha Republic|Khani]] becoming the [[East Siberian Railway]] and the rest transferred to the management of the [[Far Eastern Railway]].{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

During the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]], on November 30, 2023, an explosion occurred in the [[Severomuysky Tunnel]]. A second explosion happened soon thereafter on the bypass used as backup for the tunnel. The [[Security Service of Ukraine]] claimed responsibility for the explosions.<ref>{{cite web |url =https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/12/1/7431210/ |title=Ukraine's Security Service blows up railway linking Russia and China |publisher=[[Ukrainska Pravda]] |date=2023-12-01 |access-date=2023-12-01}}</ref>