Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. Members of the Komsomol-youth brigade of Aleksandr Vasilyevich Bondar SMP 581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, laying rails from the western direction, moving towards the brigade of Ivan Nikolayevich Varshavsky of the construction and assembly train SMP-596 of the BAMstroyput construction department, which was laying rails from the eastern direction, during the ceremonial laying of the last railway link and the joining of the main track of the Baikal-Amur Mainline at the Balbukhta siding. Grigory Kalachyan, Leonid Sverdlov/TASS