Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the Chita Region

August 1-30, 1976. USSR. Chita Region. Junior research fellow of the Institute of Geography of Siberia and the Far East of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences Alexander Kirichenko and student of the hydrometeorological technical school Alexander Kudryavtsev (left to right) during the determination of the size of the ice in the Sredniy Sakukan River basin for the design and construction of engineering barriers against natural disasters near the Baikal-Amur Mainline under construction. The exact date of the photo has not been established. Grigory Kalachyan/TASS