Builders of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. Winners of the socialist competition for the right to lay the "silver" link, track fitter of the I.N. Varshavsky construction and assembly train No. 596 team of the "BAMstroyput" Construction Directorate Aleksey Sankin and foreman of fitters of the Special Construction and Assembly Train "GruzBAMstroy" Georgy Gegochkori (from left to right in the foreground) during the ceremonial laying of the symbolic "silver" link at the Ikabya station in the village of the same name on the central section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Leonid Sverdlov/TASS