A combine harvester operator at work at the Kirovsky farm, Ipatovsky district, Stavropol Region.14.07.2017#3151134
Rice harvesting at AFG National agricultural holding fields in the Krasnodar Territory.13.09.2016#2935867
Russia. Unloading winter grain at the grain-threshing facility of Politotdelskoye Ltd. in the Toguchinsky District of the Novosibirsk Region.18.08.2016#2916361
Harvester operator harvests winter grain crops at the Druzhba Narodov (Friendship among Nations) agricultural company in the village of Petrovka in the Krasnogvardeisky District of Crimea.01.07.2014#2456115
A combine operator harvesting sugar beets in a plantation of the Tikhoretsky sugar refinery, the Kuban Region in European Russia's south.21.08.2007#164024
Combine operator Ivan Kuzminov harvesting rice. The Anastasiyevskoye company, the Kuban Region in European Russia's south. 21.08.2007#164000
The Turkmen SSR. Farming machinery on the fields of the Yerbent State Farm in the Karakum Desert in the Ashkhabad District.30.08.1989#6626513
After the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued an order On lease in the USSR on April 7, 1989, this new progressive format of socialist economic operation quickly began to expand in various sectors of the national economy, including in farming. Experimental farm of the Krasnodar Research Institute of Agriculture preparing the new harvest grain for shipment.08.08.1989#6543893
Vladimir Yegorov, combine operator at the Rossiya collective farm in the Oryol Region.01.09.1988#6287885
Zigmantas Dokas, center, director of Lithuanian state-run farm named after CPSU 25th Congress and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and irrigation engineers examine irrigated fields.18.07.1988#6575639
Silage harvesting in the Lithuanian state-run farm named after CPSU 25th Congress, Juknaiciai, Lithuanian SSR.18.07.1988#6575628
Harvesting of perennial grasses in the Labor Plowman collective farm, Dzhambul Region of the Kazakh SSR.10.10.1987#8335787
Vasily Cherdyntsev, combine operator at Rassvet state farm in Orenburg Region's Sakmarsky District, two times Hero of Socialist Labor, with his brigade.20.08.1987#5822601
Combine harvester operator Ivan Gulkov, the best in grain harvesting at Kalinin collective farm in Kanevsky District, Krasnodar Territory, accepts congratulations on his work.20.08.1987#5788739
From left: Machine operators Tachin Arutyunov and Mr. Abgaryan in the fields of the Arzhis state farm in the village of Halidzor, Syunik Region, Armenian SSR.01.07.1987#8360897
Harvesting crops on the fields of the Communism State Farm in Chimkent, the Kazakh SSR.01.07.1987#8565072
Harvesting in the collective farm For Peace in the village of Shalchininkeliai, Lithuanian SSR.14.06.1987#8360318
Vasily Cherdyntsev, combine operator at Rassvet state farm in Orenburg Region's Sakmarsky District, two times Hero of Socialist Labor, centre, with the township's school childen.20.05.1987#5822602
Chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Shevchenko in the cockpit of a combine harvester.10.03.1987#8533718
Left: A specialist from the USSR explains the features of operating a combine harvester at the Soviet Training Center for Mechanics and Drivers in the city of Antsirabe in the Democratic Republic of Madagascar.01.11.1986#8451222
The village of Srostki in the Biisk District of the Altai Territory is the birthplace of Soviet writer, actor and film director Vasily Shukshin This photo shows farmer S. Bedarev during the crops harvesting season.10.09.1986#8563169
Right: Great Patriotic War veteran Alexei Skurlatov, a former ground scout and signaler, took part in liberating Bulgaria. In this photo, he is meeting with his regimental buddies on the village of Nalobikha in the Altai Territory. Alexei Skurlatov served as a prototype for the famous Alyosha memorial honoring Soviet soldiers-liberators in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.10.11.1985#8790531
Great Patriotic War veteran Alexei Skurlatov, a former ground scout and signaler, took part in liberating Bulgaria. Alexei Skurlatov served as a prototype for the famous Alyosha memorial honoring Soviet soldiers-liberators in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.10.11.1985#8790460
Center: Bronius Valasinas, chief agronomist of the Zapiskis collective farm, during a meeting with farm machine operators, Lithuanian SSR.06.09.1985#8359127
Rice harvesters in the fields of Pyatiozerny state-owned farm in the Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR.05.09.1985#5838145
Second left, wearing a cap: Vladimir Pervitsky, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the USSR State Prize in 1976, foreman of the mechanized unit of the Leninsky Put experimental farm of the Kuban Research Institute for Testing Tractors and Agricultural Machinery (KubNIITiM) among his colleagues during an inspection of new agricultural machinery in the fields of an experimental farm.01.08.1985#8778749
Left: Vladimir Pervitsky, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the USSR State Prize in 1976, foreman of the mechanized unit of the Leninsky Put experimental farm, and his colleagues on an experimental field.01.08.1985#8778746
Vladimir Pervitsky, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the USSR State Prize in 1976, foreman of the mechanized unit of the Leninsky Put experimental farm, during the harvest of corn in the experimental field. During the harvest season, work in the fields continues day and night.01.08.1985#8778733
Harvesting grain at the Krasnodarsky state farm in the Ust-Pristansky district of the Altai Territory. Highly qualified rural machine operator Ivan Skvortsov with his grandson in the field of the state farm.01.07.1985#8794647
Harvesting grain at the Krasnodarsky state farm in the Ust-Pristansky district of the Altai Territory. Machine operator Vitaly Skvortsov in the fields of the state farm.01.07.1985#8794628
The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. Soil cultivation at the Pobeda [Victory] Collective Farm in the Straseni District.01.04.1985#883709
Field work on the Put Ilyicha collective farm in the village of Kashino, Volokolamsk district, near Moscow, where on November 14, 1920, in the presence of the leader of the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, Vladimir Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, the first rural power plant was opened.10.09.1984#8366374
Workers of the Azov state farm in the Krasnodar Territory at the parade of agricultural machinery during the harvest festival.01.09.1984#8362534
Harvesting the Charodeika variety of wheat on the Progress collective farm in the Falesti Region of the Moldavian SSR.25.08.1984#8400609
The Uzbek SSR. Women of the Surkhandarya Region. A harvester operator of 40th October Revolution Collective Farm in the Surkhandarya Region.01.08.1984#8399569
Left: Foreman of the Krasnaya Smena collective farm Leonid Dudarenko during harvesting work in the fields in the Minsk Region of the Belarusian SSR.01.08.1984#8760411
Mowing hay at the Progress Collective Farm in the Kletsky District of the Belarusian SSR.11.07.1984#8579670
From left: Machine operators M. Rudakov and A. Dryakin harvest grain crops on the fields of the Pobeda (Victory) Collective Farm in the Prokhorovka District of the Belgorod Region.01.07.1984#8800362
Hero of Socialist Labor Mikhail Dovzhik, leader of a team of machine operators at the Shuisky State Farm in the Tselinograd, now Akmola, Region of the Kazakh SSR.10.09.1983#8293677
Center: Hero of Socialist Labor Mikhail Dovzhik, leader of a team of machine operators at the Shuisky State Farm in the Tselinograd, now Akmola, Region of the Kazakh SSR.10.09.1983#8293676
Harvesting wheat on the fields of the Shuisky State Farm in the Tselinograd, now Akmola, Region of the Kazakh SSR.10.09.1983#8293675
Ivan Rudenko, machine operator foreman of the Leninsky Put collective farm, still works on the same field where he and his colleagues met cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, who returned from space on April 12, 1961.15.08.1983#6632720
Harvesting crops at the Taras Shevchenko Collective Farm in the Saratov Region where on April 12, 1961, the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin landed.01.08.1983#8291317
The Kabardino-Balkaria ASSR. Photo: Clean-up operations after a local landslide. A road has been restored in the vicinity of Mount Elbrus, part of the Greater Caucasus range in the Elbrussky and Zolsky districts.20.07.1983#5840961
![The Pobeda [Victory] Collective Farm](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol1%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2Fold%2F88%2F37%2F883709_hires_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_550x550_80_0_1_883709-eng_sputnik-883709-tn_2a3c4ae22a43f5bfac336d0fd5c2eb7e.jpg "The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. Soil cultivation at the Pobeda [Victory] Collective Farm in the Straseni District. Location: Moldova. Author: I. Zenin/Sputnik.")
