Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. First-grader Maksim Nikulnikov, son of a track fitter, fighter of the All-Union Komsomol Detachment named after the 17th Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League A. Nikulnikov, and the head of the track fitter team V. S. Kreschenko from the construction and assembly train No. 596 of the BAMstroyput construction department (from left to right in the foreground) during the assembly of the last, symbolic "golden" railway link at the link assembly base of the Khani station for its transportation to the Kuanda station, where the "golden joining" of the tracks took place during the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Leonid Sverdlov/TASS