Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. BAM builders with a special issue of the newspaper "To the Golden Link" at the ceremony of joining the main track of the Baikal-Amur Mainline at the Balbukhta siding. The last, symbolic "golden link" was laid by the team of Alexander Vasilyevich Bondar of the construction and assembly train No. 581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, which was laying the rails from the western direction towards the team of Ivan Nikolayevich Varshavsky of SMP-596 of the BAMstroyput construction department, which was laying the rails from the eastern direction. Grigory Kalachyan, Leonid Sverdlov/TASS