The Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (Russian: Медаль «За строительство Байкало-Амурской магистрали») was a civilian award of the Soviet Union established on October 8, 1976, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR[1] to recognise active participation in the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway, a huge multi year project under the leadership of then Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev.

The medal's statute was amended on July 18, 1980, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No.

The names of the recipients was then forwarded to the executive committees of the Amur Oblast, Irkutsk Oblast, Chita Oblast, Khabarovsk Regional Council of People's Deputies and to the Supreme Soviet Presidium of the Buryat and Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, which, after final consideration, awarded the medal on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in the communities of the recipients.

On its obverse, in the background in the left half of the medal, the relief image of hills and a train going left across a bridge over a river, under the bridge, the relief inscription on five lines "For the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (Rusyn: «За строительство Байкало-Амурской магистрали»), in the right half of the medal, the left profiles of a man and a woman, the man wearing a construction helmet, the woman being closer and slightly to the right.

On the reverse, the Sun over railroad tracks intersected by a ribbon bearing the inscription "BAM" (Russian: «БАМ») framed by a laurel wreath with the hammer and sickle at the top.