Propaganda Poster Baikal Amur Siberia Mainline Railway USSR. Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster for the ...

Propaganda Poster Baikal Amur Siberia Mainline Railway USSR. Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster for the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM) - Mainline of the century now! Dynamic design depicting a Komsomol worker wearing a BAM marked hard hat and a Lenin badge on his red overalls holding a yellow gold pennant flag with a hammer and sickle emblem on it in the background, an image of railway workers laying new train tracks in a dense forest lined by trees below with the title in bold red letters above. Built as an alternative rail route to the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Baikal-Amur Mainline / ???????-???????? ?????????? (???) was one of the 1976-1980 Five Year Plan projects; the slogan refers to the quote by Brezhnev that the railway would be "the construction project of the century." Fair condition, creasing, tears, staining, pinholes, folds. Country of issue: Russia, designer: I. Kominarets, size (cm): 89x58, year of printing: 1979.