Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. Ceremony of laying the last railway link at the junction of the main track of the Baikal-Amur Mainline at the Balbukhta siding with the participation of Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky's team with construction and assembly train No. 596 of the BAMstroyput construction department, which laid the rails on the eastern side, and Aleksandr Vasilyevich Bondar's team with SMP-581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, which laid the rails on the western side. Grigory Kalachyan, Leonid Sverdlov/TASS