"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).
- Date
- 1977
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Not named on the board; Soviet construction-site information display, Ust-Ilimsk (Fortepan catalogue: Baikal-Amur Mainline information board)
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Labor, Economy and finance
- Event
- Baikal Amur Mainline
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Fortepan (donor: Urbán Tamás), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan site footer); covers the photograph only
Fortepan / Urbán Tamás, ID 15969 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Text on the object
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)
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.
