The exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning the development of virgin and idle lands. The minutes of the meeting of the CPSU Central Committee presidium of March 2, 1954 which had taken the decision.15.07.2004#110797
CPSU chairman Oleg Shenin attending an exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of virgin lands development.15.07.2004#110795
President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and his wife Sara in an agricultural field. A working visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to Kazakhstan. May 1991.05.05.1991#849755
President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa (second left) in a field camp. A working visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to Kazakhstan. May 1991.05.05.1991#849754
Grain harvest on the virgin lands of Kazakhstan. Grain processing at the current of the Engels collective farm of the Kustanai District of the Kustanai Region. Kazakh SSR.30.08.1990#8308335
Grain harvest on the virgin lands of Kazakhstan. On the current of the collective farm named after F. Engels of the Kustanai district of the Kustanai Region. Kazakh SSR.30.08.1990#8308334
Grain harvest on the virgin lands of Kazakhstan. Delivery of grain to the elevator of the city of Kustanai. Kazakh SSR.30.08.1990#8308331
The Leninabad Region in the Tajik SSR. Developing new farmland at the Pobeda (Victory) State Farm where ethnic Germans live and work.10.04.1987#8543942
The Leninabad Region in the Tajik SSR. Throwing a party at the Pobeda (Victory) State Farm where ethnic Germans live and work.10.04.1987#8543941
Reclamation of virgin lands in the Beshkent valley in Southern Tajikistan. Staple crops (fine-fiber cotton plant) are planted in difficult conditions. Member of the District Council of People's Deputies Gulchekhra Safarova takes part in the sowing campaign.11.03.1987#2928977
Reclamation of virgin lands in the Beshkent valley in Southern Tajikistan. Children of Beshkent.11.03.1987#2928976
Reclamation of virgin lands in the Beshkent valley in Southern Tajikistan. Staple crops (fine-fiber cotton plant) are planted in difficult conditions.11.03.1987#2928975
Reclamation of virgin lands in the Beshkent valley in Southern Tajikistan. The village first-aid room in Beshkent-2 state farm.11.03.1987#2928974
Reclamation of virgin lands in the Beshkent valley in Southern Tajikistan. View of the village in Beshkent-2 state farm.11.03.1987#2928973
Land use planning for agriculture. Reclamation of virgin lands in the Beshkent valley in Southern Tajikistan.11.03.1987#2928972
Harvesting grain at the Krasnodarsky state farm in the Ust-Pristansky district of the Altai Territory. The director of the state farm, Alexander Peregudov, right, has no days off during the harvest season, nor do his subordinates: machine operators and drivers.01.07.1985#8794708
Harvesting grain at the Krasnodarsky state farm in the Ust-Pristansky district of the Altai Territory. State farm director Alexander Peregudov on a state farm field.01.07.1985#8794674
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. Wheat ears on the fields of the state farm.01.07.1985#8794646
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
Svetlana Ivanova, a medical school student from the Kostryakovsky Virgin-Land Collective Farm in the Kazakh SSR.15.10.1983#8298577
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
A girl showing a loaf of bread made with newly-harvested grain grown on the virgin lands in Kustanai Region.01.09.1983#82680
Mikhail Dovzhik, virgin land farmer, foreman of mechanics at the Shuisky sate farm in the Tselinogradskaya region and Hero of the Socialist Labor.16.03.1983#2808054
Harvesting grain at the Road to Communism state farm in the Kustanai Region of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.01.03.1983#819541
The Virgin Lands Shuisky state farm's team leader Mikhail Dovzhik, Tselinograd Region.06.04.1979#64707
The Kazakh SSR. The Lenin State Farm in the Ural Region, renamed the West Kazakhstan Region since July 1992.20.07.1978#8883893
In 1978, the virgin land collective farm Dzhida started bringing new lands under cultivation. The Oshsk Region, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic.01.07.1978#879764
Fyodor Morgun, First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party Poltava Regional Committee, is seen speaking in front of students of the Korolenko Poltava Pedagogic Institute.01.04.1978#6751888
Fyodor Morgun, First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party Poltava Regional Committee, is seen at home with his wife and grandson Taras.01.04.1978#6751887
Fyodor Morgun, First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party Poltava Regional Committee.01.04.1978#6751885
Fyodor Morgun, First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party Poltava Regional Committee.01.04.1978#6751420
Center: Fyodor Morgun, First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party Poltava Regional Committee, monitors the sowing campaign.01.04.1978#6751418
Fyodor Morgun, First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party Poltava Regional Committee, is seen holding a meeting.01.04.1978#6751416
The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. The Dangara irrigation tunnel brought the water from the Nurek Sea to the Dangara steppe, which enabled development of new lands.04.07.1976#5519596
Harvesting grain at Ulyanovsky State Farm, Ural Region (now the West Kazakhstan Region).01.09.1975#5581799
The Kazakh SSR. Plowing up a winter crops field at the Lvovsky State Virgin-Land Farm after harvesting grain crops.15.08.1975#6507536
The Kazakh SSR. Trucks of the Lvovsky State Virgin-Land Farm deliver grain harvests to a grain elevator.15.08.1975#6507532
Harvesting crops at the Lvovsky Collective Farm on previously uncultivated land. Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.01.08.1975#6368204
Crop fields at the Lvovsky Collective Farm on previously uncultivated land. Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.01.08.1975#6368203
V.Smekalkova, machine operator at the Lvovsky Collective Farm on previously uncultivated land. Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.01.08.1975#6377318
Harvesting crops at the Lvovsky Collective Farm on previously uncultivated land. Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.01.08.1975#6377317
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Tselinograd (present-day Astana). Tractor operator of Rodina collective farm in the Tselinogradsky District of the Tselinograd Region, Hero of Socialist Labor Leonid Kartauzov.19.05.1974#5507287
The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Chairperson of Tejen virgin land state farm in the Tejensky district of the Ashgabad region Orazgosel Amangeldyeva, center, during a meeting with colleagues.15.04.1974#5501440
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. North Kazakhstan Region. Pupils of the Tokushinsky state farm's secondary school.01.09.1973#3071011
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. North Kazakhstan Region. Harvesting at the Zhdanovsky state farm.01.09.1973#3071010