Builders of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Buryat ASSR. Lenin Komsomol Prize laureate, leader of the Komsomol-youth team of track fitters of construction and assembly train No. 581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust Aleksandr Vasilyevich Bondar (left in the foreground) at the ceremony of laying the symbolic "silver" link at the Kichera station in the village of the same name on the western section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Vladimir Matvievsky/TASS