Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. The head of the Komsomol-youth brigade Aleksandr Vasilyevich Bondar and members of his brigade of construction and assembly train No. 581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, laying rails from the western direction towards the brigade of Ivan Nikolayevich Varshavsky of SMP-596 of the BAMstroyput construction department, laying rails from the eastern direction, during the ceremonial laying of the last railway link at the junction of the main track of the Baikal-Amur Mainline at the Balbukhta siding. Grigory Kalachyan, Leonid Sverdlov/TASS