Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. Builders from the brigade of Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky of the construction and assembly train SMP-596 of the BAMstroyput construction department, who were laying the rails on the eastern side, and the brigade of Alexander Vasilyevich Bondar of the SMP-581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, who were laying 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