Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. Builders from Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky's team with the SMP-596 construction and assembly train of the BAMstroyput construction department, laying rails from the eastern direction towards Alexander Vasilyevich Bondar's team of SMP-581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, which was laying rails from the western direction, before 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