Opening of through train traffic on the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Irkutsk Region. Ust-Kut. A train with honorary passengers, participants in the construction of the BAM, invited to the celebrations in Tynda on the occasion of the opening of through traffic on the BAM, during the passage over the first single-track railway bridge across the Lena River on the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Edgar Bryukhanenko/TASS