State inspection of the mounted equipment. Moscow's Sergo Ordzhonikidze Machine-Tool Plant.10.07.1966#5646603
Assembling a hydraulic press at the Yefremov Novosibirsk Tyazhstankogidropress Plant.17.06.1966#5880652
The Kalinin Moscow Frezer Cutting Tools Plant. Photo: This planer-type milling machine machines large-size components.30.05.1966#5864327
Chuvash ASSR. Cheboksary cotton factory (out of business since 2013). A shop producing furniture textiles.25.05.1966#5891915
Solnechnogorsk glassworks (currently Solstek JSC). The plant's managers inspect new equipment operation.03.01.1966#5859095
An official visit by President of the Republic of Congo Alphonse Massamba-Debat to the USSR. Alphonse Massamba-Debat tours the First State Ball Bearing Plant.01.09.1965#6064293
The Lenin Ural Plant for Heavy Electrical Machine Construction. The shop for manufacturing high-voltage air circuit breakers.24.05.1965#5890523
The First State Ball Bearing Plant in Moscow, the Soviet Union. Photo: These metal balls are components of future ball bearing01.11.1964#6104784
Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant "Uralmashzavod," Sverdlovsk. Major components shop.24.09.1964#5644869
Main control center at the Frezer Company producing cutting tools in Moscow (closed in 2004).03.06.1964#5947299
Balakovo fiber materials plant. Italian technicians and mechanics check the operation of the Italian equipment installed at the plant.01.12.1963#5864648
Valentina Tereshkova (born in 1937), future first female cosmonaut, the USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union used to work in roving shop floor of textile factory "Krasniy Perekop".17.07.1963#612463
A team of Yaroslavl weavers from the Krasny Perekop Textile Integrated Works works intensively to celebrate the trailblazing space mission of their fellow city resident Valentina Tereshkova who flew aboard the Vosrok-6 spacecraft on June 16, 1963.17.06.1963#8403531
The Bytmash (Household Appliances) Plant, now the main enterprise of the Start Production Association, in Melitopol, the Ukrainian SSR. Photo: Quality control expert Lidia Sysoyeva checks SMR-1.5 Tavriya washing machines prior to shipment to Bulgaria.24.03.1963#6178220
The Lenin Nevsky Machine-Building Plant, now Nevsky Plant Co. Ltd. Photo: Delegations of foreign colleagues often visited the plant.30.09.1962#5990783
An electronic computing machine, manufactured in 1962, is displayed at the VDNKh exhibition center.29.08.1962#5989572
The Pravda print house. The first reader of the Pravda daily press operator Gerasimenko.01.03.1962#5678937
Milling machine operators with their team leader Gerasim Ryabchuk at the Leningrad Machine Tool Building Factory.01.12.1961#2561707
Chinese Government trade delegation in the pilot automatic shop of the First State Bearing Plant. Second left is deputy head of the delegation Zhou Hu-Minh, China's Foreign Trade Minister's aide.01.03.1961#672776
Left: Valery Krivenkov, young milling machine operator of the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Moscow Machine Tool Plant works on a machine under the supervision of his mentor Nikolai Stuzhin.11.04.1960#8932494
Young designers at the Kolomna heavy machine tool plant discussing blueprints of a new hydraulic press. 07.01.1960#174903
The Ryazan machine tool plant. Craftsman M. Solodov and fitter V. Kuznetsov check on the accuracy of the machine tool assembly.31.01.1959#5472465
The Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Worker of "Steklovolokno" (present-day JSC "Polotsk-Steklovolokno") plant Alla Antonenko operates the machine.02.10.1958#5468027
Machine tools produced in the USSR for India. Semi-automatic 1A730 model lathe test.08.05.1958#5482790
The Economizer State Machine-Building Plant in Leningrad. Photo: Viktor Vladimirov, an engineer responsible for adjusting and testing electrical equipment, checks technical parameters of operational equipment.20.09.1956#8910237
The Ordzhonikidze Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant in the city of Sverdlovsk (now Uralmashplant JSC). A ring gear on a boring machine.11.05.1956#5815909
An automatic line with polishing/grinding machines at the First State Ball Bearing Plant.23.03.1956#5815830
Soviet weaver Maria Vinogradova, Deputy Director of the Frunze Moscow Factory and one of the founders of the Stakhanovite movement that involved workers taking after famous Soviet miner Alexei Stakhanov operating many machine-tools.01.12.1955#5864890
Leonid Belyaev and Tamara Prutova, young workers of the mechanical shop of the Kansk Foundry and Mechanical Plant (SEGMENT Kansk Machine-Building Plant), at work on a lathe.21.02.1955#8903628
Taisia Tulova is employed at the Moscow-based Dukat Tobacco Factory cigarette workshop.01.03.1954#5815788
Klimov machine-building plant. Automated weaving machine designed by he plant's engineers.01.01.1952#3325213
Moscow's A. I. Efremov "Krasnyi proletariy" (red proletarian) machine building plant. Gear grinding machine.01.01.1952#3325158
