In Tynda, they said goodbye to the legendary BAM brigadier Ivan Varshavsky

A farewell ceremony for Ivan Varshavsky, Hero of Socialist Labor, head of the brigade that connected the rails of the BAM (Baikal-Amur Mainline) at the Balbukhta junction in the Chita region in September 1984, who died at the age of 88, took place in Tynda. Izvestia publishes footage of the ceremony on January 9.

Members of his family, friends, acquaintances and colleagues came to say goodbye to Varshavsky, some of whom made speeches in memory of the deceased. So, one of the foreman's acquaintances emphasized that his memory was immortalized in the infrastructure of the Amur region created by him.

"Ivan Nikolaevich left his memory in bridges, tunnels, roads, he left it in the souls of people who remember him," said one of those present.

Another participant in the ceremony said that at the last meeting with Varshavsky, when they discussed the construction of a new railway to Magadan, the foreman gave him a quatrain, which the autograph holder plans to transfer to the Tynda Museum later.

"The smell of the taiga and Siberia is foggy here, <...> Young people are sailing to Magadan to meet an unknown fate," he read out.

The death of Ivan Varshavsky at the age of 87 became known on Saturday, January 3. The governor of the Amur Region, Vasily Orlov, stressed that he personally knew the foreman, whose fortitude, wisdom and love for the region amazed him. The next day, the chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, sent a telegram to Orlov, in which she expressed her condolences over the death of the brigadier.