Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky's team of the SMP-596 construction and assembly train of the BAMstroyput construction department, which laid the rails on the eastern side, and Alexander Vasilyevich Bondar's team of the SMP-581 trust of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, which built the track on the western side, during the ceremonial laying of the track at the junction of the last, "golden" link of the Baikal-Amur Mainline at the Kuanda station. Grigory Kalachyan, Leonid Sverdlov/TASS