(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) MOSCOW, Russia, April 23. We always felt HeydarAliyev was with us, a veteran of the railway industry and anemployee of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM), Nurmammad Javadov toldreporters in Kremlin, Trend reports.
"I am the commander of the Komsomol detachment of Azerbaijan. OnMarch 22, 1975, we arrived by helicopter in the village of Ulkan,where a permanent settlement was built until 1998. The first yearin winter was difficult.
We were not accustomed to the cold at that time. When HeydarAliyev arrived, he inspected the settlements. We always felt thatAzerbaijan was with us, that Heydar Aliyev was with us," heemphasized.
To note, on April 22, a joint meeting of the President of theRepublic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the President of RussiaVladimir Putin with veterans and employees of the railway industrytook place in Moscow on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of theBaikal-Amur Mainline.
The BAM is a landmark project for both Russia and Azerbaijan success of building this one of the longest railway lines inthe world is directly linked to the name of the national leader ofthe Azerbaijani people, Heydar Aliyev.
As the First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers,Heydar Aliyev became the first leader to make the decision tofamiliarize himself with the progress of construction directly onsite.
It was his 10-day trip along the BAM that became a turning pointin the construction of the mainline.
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