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title: '"БАМ — стройка всенародная" (BAM, a construction of the whole people): Lenin portrait and union-republic emblem board, Ust-Ilimsk'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ust-ilimsk-bam-vsenarodnaya-board-1977/
description: Beside a log building stand a large Lenin portrait, a long header board reading 'BAM, a construction of the whole people', a route map, and fifteen…
section: Collection
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# "БАМ — стройка всенародная" (BAM, a construction of the whole people): Lenin portrait and union-republic emblem board, Ust-Ilimsk

Beside a log building stand a large Lenin portrait, a long header board reading 'BAM, a construction of the whole people', a route map, and fifteen panels each bearing one union republic's emblem and name. The row of republics asserts universal participation (bandwagon); Lenin's portrait lends his authority to the project (transfer).

## Text on the object

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
БАМ — СТРОЙКА ВСЕНАРОДНАЯ
[Map panel:] БАМ — ТРАССА МУЖЕСТВА
[Emblem panels, left of the map, left to right:] РОССИЙСКАЯ СФСР | УКРАИНСКАЯ ССР | БЕЛОРУССКАЯ ССР | УЗБЕКСКАЯ ССР | [illegible] ССР | ТУРКМЕНСКАЯ ССР | АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНСКАЯ ССР | ГРУЗИНСКАЯ ССР
[Emblem panels, right of the map:] [illegible] ССР (seven panels, names illegible)
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
BAM, a construction of the whole people
[Map panel:] BAM, route of courage
[Emblem panels:] Russian SFSR | Ukrainian SSR | Belorussian SSR | Uzbek SSR | [illegible] SSR | Turkmen SSR | Azerbaijan SSR | Georgian SSR
[Right of the map:] [illegible] SSR (seven panels, names illegible)
```

Read from enlarged crops of the committed image; the panel names right of the map are too small to read. The map's own labels are illegible.

[← Slogan banners at a rally on Lenin Square, Gomel: "Слава КПСС!" (Glory to the CPSU!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gomel-october-revolution-60th-rally-1977/) [Row of agitation boards on a construction site, Ust-Ilimsk: "Делу Ленина верны!" (Loyal to Lenin's cause!) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ust-ilimsk-construction-site-agitation-boards-1977/)

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