Burma, now Myanmar. Under the 1962 Soviet-Burmese Treaty, the Soviet Union provided Burma with loans for building a dam and a reservoir in Chemoltau and an irrigation system in the Mu River valley and in Titso and also sent its specialists and equipment there. Building a dam in Chemoltau, designed by Soviet engineers.20.02.1963#6173434
Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow (now the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba). Malian students study Russian.04.11.1960#8934433
Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow (now the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba). Malian students study Russian.04.11.1960#8934431
Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow (now the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba). Malian students from the Russian department examine the language laboratory equipment.04.11.1960#8934407
Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow (now the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia). At the Russian language department, young teacher Alla Akishina, right, teaches a practical course on Russian phonetics, working with foreign students on comparing Russian phonetics with the phonetic systems of other languages.01.11.1960#8933680
Firefighting tactical exercises at the training ground allow firefighters to improve their professional skills, as well as learn how to correctly apply the acquired knowledge in practical conditions. Practicing the technique of performing an exercise on installing an extension ladder and climbing it to the 3rd floor of the training tower.05.05.1958#8928404
The Voikov Kerch Metallurgical Plant (now the State Unitary Enterprise Kerch Metallurgical Plant). Loading goods onto platform cars.29.06.1951#5715683
The Voikov Kerch Metallurgical Plant (now the State Unitary Enterprise Kerch Metallurgical Plant). Loading raw materials onto railway platforms, 1951.29.06.1951#5719642
The Voikov Kerch Metallurgical Plant (now the State Unitary Enterprise Kerch Metallurgical Plant). Loading raw materials onto railway platforms, 1951.29.06.1951#5719339
Farmers walking to the field. The Borotba collective farm, Minsk region, Belorussia, 1950.01.08.1950#2783914
Construction of Verkhnyi Samgori irrigating canal, the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1947.10.05.1947#3095914
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Berlin operation. Storm of Berlin. Women's bath and laundry squad in defeated Berlin. Thousands of pairs of soldiers' underwear were washed by front workers.02.05.1945#8657740
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Loading coal on wagons in the Tulaugol coal mine of the Moscow Region Coal Basin.21.01.1943#8543203
1943. A coal basin near Moscow. Photo: Podmoskovnaya mine, restored after the liberation of the Tula Region from Nazi German invaders.21.01.1943#5757044
1943. A coal basin near Moscow. Photo: Producing coal at Podmoskovnaya mine, restored after the liberation of the Tula Region from Nazi German invaders.21.01.1943#5757043
1943. A coal basin near Moscow. Photo: Podmoskovnaya mine, restored after the liberation of the Tula Region from Nazi German invaders. Loading coal for power industry companies onto a freight train.21.01.1943#5757042
1943. A coal basin near Moscow. Photo: Podmoskovnaya mine, restored after the liberation of the Tula Region from Nazi German invaders. Loading coal for power industry companies onto a freight train.21.01.1943#5757041
1943. A coal basin near Moscow. Photo: Podmoskovnaya mine, restored after the liberation of the Tula Region from Nazi German invaders. Loading coal for power industry companies onto a freight train.21.01.1943#5757040
1943. A coal basin near Moscow. Photo: Podmoskovnaya mine, restored after the liberation of the Tula Region from Nazi German invaders. Miners descend into a tunnel.21.01.1943#5757039
1943. A coal basin near Moscow. Photo: A miner about to enter Podmoskovnaya mine, restored after the liberation of the Tula Region from Nazi German invaders.21.01.1943#5757038
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The Bryansk Front. A women's laundry unit at work.01.06.1942#8659384
Preparations for seeding winter crops in a collective farm in the Kuibyshev Region (Samara Region since 1991). 1939.10.09.1939#5749538
Harvesting crops in a collective farm in the Kuibyshev Region (Samara Region since 1991). 1939.19.08.1939#5749535
The construction of the Great Fergana Canal. Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, 1939.06.04.1939#3067112
Loading ore at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, a shock construction project in the 1930s.14.05.1932#6106169
The first Mongolian geological survey expedition in manual sinking of exploring shaft.01.02.1931#48680
The construction of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Plant. Workers ditch a water tunnel trench, 1930.11.06.1930#5874540
Workers, builders of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, read a socialist emulation report on a bulletin board.14.05.1930#6106165
The famous Magnitka (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works) was the most ambitious construction projects in the 1930s. The project largely involved manual labor.14.05.1930#6106163
A meeting of workers building Magnitogorsk city and the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, the largest construction project of the 1930s.14.05.1930#6106162
The Uzbek SSR. Cotton-growers weigh their raw cotton harvests before delivering them to state procurement centers in accordance with state contracts.14.08.1929#8758741
Workers started building a railway prior to construction of the famous Magnitka, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. In June 1929, traffic was launched along the new railway, now the South Ural Railway, toward Magnitogorskaya station.14.05.1929#6106164
Vocational school at the Krasny Bogatyr Plant of Ribber Footwear. 1920. During classes.10.03.1920#5746255
