thumb|300px|Prisoners lining up before leaving the camp for work on road construction.

The Amur Cart Road or Amur Wheel Road ( or , <small>tr.</small> ) was a cartage road in Amur Oblast of Imperial Russia that connected Khabarovsk with Blagoveshchensk through mostly uninhabited areas of taiga and swamps.

The road was built during 1898&ndash;1909 with nearly exclusive usage of katorga prison labor. It was praised as a success in its use of penal labor, claiming that no other country had any prison labor project comparable in scale. In 1905 over 700&nbsp;convicts were simultaneously at work on the road. In this respect it was unsurpassed in the Gulag system of the Soviet Union.

See also

  • Siberian Route
  • Kolyma Highway
  • Amur Highway

References

  • Andrey Sobol, Kолесуха ("Kolesuha"), 1925, memoirs, in Russian.