Builders of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Yakut ASSR. Head of the track fitters' team Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky (second from the right in the background) from the construction and assembly train No. 596 of the BAMstroyput Track Construction Directorate and members of his team, who won the socialist competition for the right to lay the final, symbolic "silver" link at the Olondo siding of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, after the laying ceremony. Grigory Kalachyan, Leonid Sverdlov/TASS