Builders of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Buryat ASSR. Lenin Komsomol Prize laureate, head of the Komsomol-youth team of track fitters of construction and installation train No. 581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust Aleksandr Vasilyevich Bondar, who was awarded a pennant for laying the railway track on the Taksimo-Vitim section, First Secretary of the Bauntovsky District Committee of the CPSU V. Radnaev (from left to right in the foreground), First Deputy Head of GlavBAMstroy Efim Vladimirovich Basin, First Secretary of the Severobaikal City Committee of the CPSU Lev Pavlovich Tabalaev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Bato Semenovich Semenov (from right to left in the background), Secretary of the Severobaikal City Committee of the CPSU A. Molitvin (in the center in the third background) during the award ceremony. Vladimir Matvievsky/TASS