Cattle-farm worker V. Kochetov from the Maslovsky Pedigree Livestock-Breeding Plant in Voronezh Region01.06.1994#8275891
The Kubansky farmstead in the Krasnodar Territory. Photo: Anfisa, the wife of farmer Pyotr Ponomarenko, carries a bucket with milk after milking cows. She will empty it inside a milk-can.01.07.1991#6691195
The Kubansky farmstead in the Krasnodar Territory. Photo: The son-in-law of farmer Pyotr Ponomarenko tends to cows at a pasture.01.07.1991#6691194
The Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant, now the Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant No. 1, in the village of Uspenskoye in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region. Photo: Vasily Kuryanov, a groom at the plant's colt-nursing stable.01.09.1990#8301367
The Orlov trotters from the Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant, now the Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant No. 1, in the village of Uspenskoye in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region.01.09.1990#8301366
An Oryol trotter takes part in a dressage training session at the Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant, now the Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant No. 1, in the village of Uspenskoye in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region.01.09.1990#8301364
A greenhouse for growing virus-free strawberries at the Memory of Lenin Fruit and Vegetable Breeding State Farm in the Moscow Region.22.06.1988#6579722
The Latvian SSR. The Collective Farm Adaji was a leading advanced high-intensity and exemplary agricultural facility. This photo shows a winter garden at the Brillianty (Diamonds) dairy complex.01.04.1987#8357092
Vasily Moroz, Chief Animal Technician with the Lenin Collective Farm -- Pedigree Livestock Breeding Plant in the Stavropol Territory, shows a heterogeneous wool of thin-fleece sheep breeds at the Zolotoye Runo (Golden Fleece) exhibition.30.05.1986#8378957
Members of a delegation of Finnish farmers in Krasnodar. Photo: Visiting Maistrenko Krasnoarmeisky Animal Husbandry Plant in Poltavskaya Stanitsa (Cossack Village) in the Krasnoarmeisky District.09.09.1985#5842422
The 12th All-Union Competition of Milking Machine Operators at a livestock-breeding facility of the Rossiya Pedigree Livestock Plant in the town of Mirny of the Sosnovsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region. Photo: Volga, a cow of the black and motley Ural breeds set a record by yielding 17,517 kilograms of milk with 4.2 percent fat content during a 305-day lactation period. The greatest daily milk yield was 77 kilograms.01.08.1985#8876035
The 12th All-Union Competition of Milking Machine Operators at a livestock-breeding facility of the Rossiya Pedigree Livestock Plant in the town of Mirny of the Sosnovsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region. Photo: Milkmaid L. Nikitina takes part in the next stage of the competition.01.08.1985#8876034
Guests and administrators from various regions of the RSFSR attend the 12th All-Union Competition of Milking Machine Operators at a livestock-breeding facility of the Rossiya Pedigree Livestock Plant in the town of Mirny of the Sosnovsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region.01.08.1985#8876033
The 12th All-Union Competition of Milking Machine Operators at a livestock-breeding facility of the Rossiya Pedigree Livestock Plant in the town of Mirny of the Sosnovsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region. Left: Awarding the competition's absolute champion V. Ivanov.01.08.1985#8876032
From left: Viktor Postnikov, General Director of the Stavropolskoye Broiler Chicks Production Association and R. Boucher, Director of Hungary's Babolna TETRA Co. (that specializes in genetic projects and sells-hatching birds, sign a bilateral strategic partnership agreement.01.08.1985#8827920
This high-yield White Leghorn Mediterranean egg-laying chicken breed was developed at the Experimental Pedigree Poultry-Breeding Farm of the All-Union Poultry Research and Development Institute, now the Zagorsk Experimental Pedigree Poultry-Breeding Farm - Selection-Genetic Center at the All-Russian Poultry Research and Development Technological Institute.11.04.1985#8964257
This high-yield White Leghorn Mediterranean egg-laying chicken breed was developed at the Experimental Pedigree Poultry-Breeding Farm of the All-Union Poultry Research and Development Institute, now the Zagorsk Experimental Pedigree Poultry-Breeding Farm - Selection-Genetic Center at the All-Russian Poultry Research and Development Technological Institute.11.04.1985#8964252
A meeting of a grass-roots Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) organization at the Lenin Collective Farm / pedigree livestock-breeding plant in Gorki Leninskiye rural town in the Leninsky District of the Moscow Region.13.09.1984#8220747
Harvesting turnips at the Vladimir Lenin Pedigree Livestock Breeding Collective Farm in Gorki in the Leninsky District of the Moscow Region.13.09.1984#8378983
Two-Time Hero of Socialist Labor Ivan Kukhar chairs the Vladimir Lenin Pedigree Livestock Breeding Collective Farm in Gorki in the Leninsky District of the Moscow Region. This photo shows the farm's livestock-breeding facility.13.09.1984#8378922
The Terek Horse-Breeding Plant in the town of Novotersky of the Stavropol Territory. Photo: An instructor conducts an adaptive horseback riding session for patients in need of rehabilitation at a dressage facility. The session is part of exercise therapy and equine-assisted therapy.18.06.1984#8320279
Ivan Afanasyev, Director of the Agricultural Production Cooperative of the Vostok Pedigree Livestock-Breeding Plant in the Stepanovsky District of the Stavropol Territory.31.07.1983#8205477
Showing off an Arabian stallion at an international horse auction at the Terek Horse Breeding Plant.15.07.1983#6736060
The Georgian SSR. Vladimir Rossinsky, Ph. D. (Biiology), a staffer of the Gagra Arboretum, a subsidiary of the Main Botanical Garden of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.01.06.1983#8145784
The Georgian SSR. Staffers of the Gagra Arboretum, a subsidiary of the Main Botanical Garden of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.01.06.1983#8145756
The Primorye Subsidiary of the All-Union Rice Scientific Research Institute. Photo: The Institute's staffers N. Bushkova and V. Kasajik in the greenhouse of an experimental selection station.01.08.1982#6701650
The Lenin Collective Farm / Animal Husbandry Plant in the Apanasenkovsky District of the Stavropol Territory. Photo: Experts select sheep at the Collective Farm's sheep-breeding facility and assess their economically useful traits.01.08.1982#6701648
The Tukayevsky District of Naberezhniye Chelny in the Tatar ASSR. An animal-feeding section at the Gigant State Farm in Novy town.08.05.1982#6691737
Novy town in the Tukayevsky District of Naberezhniye Chelny in the Tatar ASSR. Fodder towers of the Gigant State Farm.08.03.1982#6691736
The Tukayevsky District of Naberezhniye Chelny in the Tatar ASSR. The Sosnovoborsky pig-breeding facility, now Kamsky Bacon LLC, in the town of Sosnovy Bor.08.03.1982#6691732
The Belarusian SSR. Students learning to ride on horseback at an equestrian sports school of the Uritsky Collective Farm in the Gomel Region.01.06.1981#8517300
Foreign diplomats and embassy officials visit the Krasnoarmeisky (Red Army) State Farm, now the Maistrenko Krasnoarmeisky State Pedigree Rice-Growing Plant, in the Krasnodar Territory. In the 1970s, the state farm that specialized in rice-growing and horticulture, started breeding pedigree horses. The guests attended equestrian sports competitions at the state farm's indoor riding-hall and also rode a phaeton. Center: Hero of Socialist Labor A. I. Maistrenko, the State Farm's Director. Right: Norma Inversin, a member of the diplomatic delegation.21.08.1979#8242365
Future machine operators of the Kirov state farm in the town of Kirov in the Trunovsky District, the northeastern section of Russia's Stavropol Territory.19.05.1976#5565163
The 1st Moscow Horse Breeding Plant, now Moscow Horse Breeding Plant No. 1 in the village of Uspenskoye in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region. Breaking in a horse at a riding-house during an international auction.10.04.1975#6527778
An international auction selling Oryol trotters at the First Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant, now the Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant No. 1 in the village of Uspenskoye in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region. In this photo, foreign guests and customers are riding a horse-drawn sled.19.12.1970#8754633
An international auction selling Oryol trotters at the First Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant, now the Moscow Horse-Breeding Plant No. 1 in the village of Uspenskoye in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region. Showing the best horse breeds and horses, due to be sold off, to customers and guests.19.12.1970#8754609
The Gigant State Farm in the Blagodarnensky District of the Stavropol Territory ranks among the largest territorial collective farms. The enterprise specializes and plant-growing and livestock-breeding projects and processes meat and other agricultural produce. This photo shows the state farm's pig-breeding facility.01.09.1970#8755511
Surgeons operate on a patient at a rural hospital, part of Lenin collective farm in the Kotelevsky District of the Poltava Region in the Ukrainian SSR.01.09.1969#6264214
A warehouse with hybrid corn seeds at a collective farm in the Krasnodar Territory.19.08.1969#6110442
Novaya Zhizn (New Life) collective farm in the Shchokinsky District of the Tula Region. Photo: Village residents watch a concert at the collective farm's club.01.07.1969#6264208
A cow herd grazes on a pasture of Novaya Zhizn (New Life) collective farm in the Shchokinsky District of the Tula Region.01.07.1969#6264207
Cyclists try to outrace each other on a village street at Novaya Zhizn (New Life) collective farm in the Shchokinsky District of the Tula Region.01.07.1969#6264206
A cow herd grazes on a pasture of Novaya Zhizn (New Life) collective farm in the Shchokinsky District of the Tula Region.01.07.1969#6264205
Amateur performer Svetlana Finkina entertains fellow villagers at Novaya Zhizn (New Life) collective farm in the Shchokinsky District of the Tula Region.01.07.1969#6264204
Teacher Lidia Savosina and her son in a flower garden near their home at Novaya Zhizn (New Life) collective farm in the Shchokinsky District of the Tula Region.01.07.1969#6264203
Newlyweds at Novaya Zhizn (New Life) collective farm in the Shchokinsky District of the Tula Region.01.07.1969#6264202
The Tajik SSR. Various areas of Tajikistan's Vakhsh Valley were mostly used for breeding astrakhan sheep. A sheep flock grazes on a summer pasture.10.06.1969#8725408
The homes of collective farmers on a new village street at Lenin collective farm in the Kotelevsky District of the Poltava Region in the Ukrainian SSR.01.06.1969#6264218
Farmlands of the Zarya Kommunizma (Dawn of Communism) State Pedigree Livestock Breeding Plant in the Domodedovo District of the Moscow Region.19.07.1968#8395137
The central section of the Zarya Kommunizma (Dawn of Communism) State Pedigree Livestock Breeding Plant in the Domodedovo District of the Moscow Region.19.07.1968#8395136
The Turkmen SSR. Festivities marking the 50th anniversary of the Great October 1917 Socialist Revolution. Photo: Old sages are watching riders from the Ashkhabad Komsomol Pedigree Horse-Breeding Plant, now the Niyazov Horse Plant at the Republican Racecourse in Ashkhabad, now the State Racecourse in Ashkhabad.07.11.1967#6136234
The Turkmen SSR. Photo: Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Great October 1917 Socialist Revolution. Employees of the Ashkhabad Komsomol Pedigree Horse-Breeding Plant, now the Niyazov Horse-Breeding Plant, show off Akhalteke horses at the Republican Racecourse in Ashkhabad, now the Ashkhabad State Racecourse.07.11.1967#6136227
The Ukrainian SSR. Photo: Soviet selectionist Vasily Kozubenko, DSc (Agriculture), at a seed bank of the Yuryev Research and Development Institute of Plant-Growing, Selection and Genetics, now the Yuryev Plant-Growing Institute of the National Academy of Sciences.01.04.1964#5864776
The chick incubation and hatching room at the Tomilino Poultry Factory, now defunct, in the Lyubertsy District of the Moscow Region.15.05.1953#8433212
