New Year on the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Irkutsk Region. Carpenter foreman Mikhail Fistik, dressed as Father Frost, unloads a helicopter with New Year's gifts for BAM builders at a helipad near the settlement of Magistralny on the western section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Father Frost, who appeared at the central base of construction and assembly train No. 391 in the settlement of Magistralny, handed over keys to apartments, visited a school, and worked laying rails. Edgar Bryukhanenko/TASS