Builders of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. Lenin Komsomol Prize laureates, Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky (second from left in the foreground), head of the track fitters' team for the SMP-596 construction and assembly train of the BAMstroyput Construction Directorate, and Aleksandr Vasilyevich Bondar (center), team leader of the track fitters for the No. 581 construction and assembly train of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, after laying the last railway link at the junction of the main track of the Baikal-Amur Mainline at the Balbukhta siding. Grigory Kalachyan, Leonid Sverdlov/TASS