History Archive: Soviet Union: Art: Photography
Farming, Armenia
![]() | A local farmer collecting cabbage. In the background, a dillapitated Apostolic church stands.(circa 1950s) |
Belorussia
![]() | A proud farmer displays her bedroom. Note the branch on the sealing, and the grass on the floor the traditional way of observing the pentecost. (circa 1980s) |
A harvesting machine digs up partially decompossed vegtable matter, which is collected, dried, and used for fuel. (circa 1980s) |
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![]() | A collective farmer's personal garden. Collectivisation found that some types of farming produce, namely vegtables, were more efficient to produce on a small scale. (circa 1980s) |
Kazhakstan
Workers use old-fashioned brooms to gather grain into a large pile for cleaning. (circa 1950s) |
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Miscellaneous
![]() | Workers on a collective farm break for a relaxed lunch. In the background, their DT-75M tractors rest. (circa 1980s) |
Workers load grass, mixed with egg white, to make for good cattle feed. (circa 1980s) |
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Russia, Arkhangelsk
A Nenets collective herder tends to a reindeer. The collective farm he worked on held over 17,000 animals, and produced 350 tons of reindeer meat every year.(circa 1980s) |
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Russia, Dnieper-river
![]() | Fishing.(circa 1950s) |
Russia, Siberia
A siberian comes home from good hunting in the Altai region. He shakes out the sable furs, while his comrade cleans fox skins. (circa 1980s) |
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![]() | A happy mongol worker of the Kosh-Agach region holds up a goat that he uses as breeding stock for its fleece.(circa 1980s) |
Fishing on a frozen lake, these ice-fishers are on their sweet spot. (circa 1980s) |
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Ukraine
![]() | A cowboy smoking.(circa 1980s) |
Transcription/Markup: Brian Baggins
Online Version: Soviet History Archive (marxists.org) 2001