Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline

USSR. Chita Region. Members of Ivan Nikolaevich Varshavsky's team of the SMP-596 construction and assembly train of the BAMstroyput construction department, laying rails from the eastern side towards Alexander Vasilyevich Bondar's team of SMP 581 of the Nizhneangarsktransstroy trust, coming from the western side, during the assembly of the last, symbolic "golden" railway link at the Khani station link assembly base for its transportation to Kuanda station, where the "golden joining" of the tracks took place during the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Grigory Kalachyan, Leonid Sverdlov/TASS