![]() A muddy path links the wooden houses to one another, but it’s unfit for motor vehicles for most of the year. The railway is the only link with the rest of the world. Zina promised herself she would never leave, though. “We don’t have the internet, we don’t have phones, we don’t have roads and we don’t have a health clinic.” “Only the seniors are left here,” the teacher in her 50s laments. Zinaida Mudovina, a village teacher, explains how the sawmill closed a few years ago and how about a dozen families left soon after. Rail, the Only Link with the Rest of the World Today, the five medical trains treat people in remote areas hard hit by rural population drift. The hospital on rails started as a way to provide medical services to railway employees posted in distant regions. ![]() It’s Akademik Fyodor Uglov, the Russian train company’s rail hospital. Yet ten red, blue and white train cars marked with a red cross await. We step off the train, and we are in the middle of nowhere. ![]() We have left the Trans-Siberian line to branch off onto the Baikal-Amur Main Line by night.Īfter a 12-hour trip, we arrive in Targiz. ![]()
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