14-year-old Viktor, the adopted son of school principal Natalia Sulina, starts agricultural implement in the village of Sennoye in Russia's Bryansk Region.03.10.2016#2949670
The farm of Vitaly Teivans, formerly an outstanding activist of the Communist Party of Latvia and later Chairman of the Board of the Latvian Peasant Fund.18.04.1992#8241680
Kirgizstan (Priozyorny) multi-ethnic state farm in Shurskol, Rostovsky District of the Yarsovlal Region. Driver Zakir Klimus's house and garden.02.04.1990#8445428
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. Yury, center, with his family at his pig farm.01.08.1989#6614662
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. The farmer's children, Alexei and Tatyana shipping cucumbers to the market.01.08.1989#6614661
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. The farmer's family and their new tractor bought with their own money.01.08.1989#6614659
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko.01.08.1989#6614658
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. Yury's wife, Lyudmila, and daughter, the farmer's immediate assistants.01.08.1989#6614656
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. Yury harvesting hay.01.08.1989#6614655
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. Yury and his assistants laying the foundation for a vegetable storage house.01.08.1989#6614654
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. Tenant farmer (entrepreneur) Yury Tishchenko from Voronovo, Moscow Region.01.08.1989#6614653
In 1989, the top Soviet government bodies, including the 1st Congress of People's Deputies, lifted the political ban on private farming (family commercial agriculture), triggering the emergence of new farms across the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. Yury discussing his project with a neighbor.01.08.1989#6614650
In 1989, the top Soviet government bodies, including the 1st Congress of People's Deputies, lifted the political ban on private farming (family commercial agriculture), triggering the emergence of new farms across the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. Yury has many skills that are necessary for living on a farm. His son watches his father use the gas cutting and welding machine.01.08.1989#6614648
In 1989, the top Soviet government bodies, including the 1st Congress of People's Deputies, lifted the political ban on private farming (family commercial agriculture), triggering the emergence of new farms across the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko. An impressive cucumber harvest.01.08.1989#6614647
The law on self-empoyment adopted in the Soviet Union on November 19, 1986, paved the way for the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement around the country. A farm in Voronovo, Moscow Region, run by private entrepreneur (tenant) Yury Tishchenko.01.08.1989#6614646
On November 19, 1986, the Law on Self-Employment was passed in the Soviet Union and facilitated the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement. Photo: Leaseholder (private business person) N. Yazykov and his family relocated from a city to a village in the Kalinin, now Tver, Region, where he started his own business.13.04.1989#6739986
On November 19, 1986, the Law on Self-Employment was passed in the Soviet Union and facilitated the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement. Photo: Leaseholder (private business person) N. Yazykov and his family relocated from a city to a village in the Kalinin, now Tver, Region, where he started his own business. Photo: Farmers have to work every day without weekends.13.04.1989#6739983
On November 19, 1986, the Law on Self-Employment was passed in the Soviet Union and facilitated the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement. Photo: Leaseholder (private business person) N. Yazykov and his family relocated from a city to a village in the Kalinin, now Tver, Region, where he started his own business.13.04.1989#6739979
On November 19, 1986, the Law on Self-Employment was passed in the Soviet Union and facilitated the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement. Leaseholder (private business person) N. Yazykov and his family relocated from a city to a village in the Kalinin, now Tver, Region, where he started his own business. Photo: Farmers have to work every day without weekends. Photo: This is the best car for rutty village roads.13.04.1989#6739974
The city of Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo Region. Individual houses in the city's residential district.01.07.1986#2862510
On November 19, 1986, the Law on Self-Employment was passed in the Soviet Union and facilitated the development of private entrepreneurship and the cooperative movement. Photo: Leaseholder (private business person) N. Yazykov and his family relocated from a city to a village in the Kalinin, now Tver, Region, where he started his own business. Photo: Farmers have to work every day without weekends.13.04.1986#6739981
Center: Numojon Muminov, Secretary of the Communist Party Organization at the Lenin Collective Farm in the Tajik SSR's Leninabad Region, tills his private land plot together with his family.15.04.1985#9014236
Lithuanian SSR. Zigmas Ramanuaskas, a tractor driver at Pavasaris collective farm, Kapsuksky district, is seen here with his wife on the plot of land.01.09.1982#6701819
The Estonian SSR. Photo: Juhan Merima, an employee of the Tallinn Excavator Plant Production Association.03.06.1982#5866953
A home of a farmer at Vladimir Lenin collective farm in the village of Gorky Leninskiye in the Leninsky District of the Moscow Region.15.08.1972#5976144
Vladimir Lenin collective farm in the village of Gorky Leninskiye in the Leninsky District of the Moscow Region. Photo: A memorial plaque on the wall of a home where Vladimir Lenin addressed peasants on January 9, 1921.15.08.1972#5976143
The Vladimir Lenin Collective Farm in the village of Gorki in the Moscow Region. Poultry-woman Pelageya Voronina has been working at the collective farm for several decades.20.12.1970#8755600
Tenginskaya Stanitsa (Cossack Village), part of Kuban collective farm in the Ust-Labinsk District of the in Krasnodar Territory.12.08.1970#5976704
The high-altitude Verkheneye community in Karachayevo-Circassian Autonomous Region, part of the Stavropol Territory.15.06.1967#8722165
The Stalin Collective Farm, now the Rossiya Collective Farm, in the Stavropol Territory. Photo: The private land plot of collective farmer Grigory Kulesh.12.07.1959#8930975