Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Amur Region. Members of the Komsomol-youth brigade of track fitters, which was named after the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, the 68 paratroopers of Konstantin Olshansky's detachment, under the leadership of the Knight of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor Valentin Aleksandrovich Shpenkov during the laying of a railway track near the Ust-Nyukzha station on the Tynda-Chara section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Viktor Marikovsky/TASS