Builders of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

February 1980. USSR. Amur Region. Foreman Valentin Aleksandrovich Shpenkov (second from right) and members of his Komsomol-youth brigade named after Heroes of the Soviet Union of 68 paratroopers of Konstantin Olshansky's detachment of construction and assembly train No. 587 of the BAMstroyput Track Construction Directorate, laying railroad tracks on the Tynda-Chara section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Grigory Kalachyan/TASS