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6. Russia's Fleets: Two of Russia's most prominent naval men are Vice Admirals Basisty and Azarov of the Black Sea Fleet here shown reviewing their units at Sebastopol./ World News Services.

June, 1947. The Shevchenko Opera House in Kiev.

Tbilisi, Capital of Soviet Georgia/ 3. Soviet Georgia cherishes the memory of outstanding figures of Georgian history and culture. A monument to the memory of Shota Rust'haveli, the great Georgian poet of the XII-XIIIth Centuries, has been erected in…

9. 29th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (The Press) The House of Culture built in Stalinsk, Siberia, for workers and engineers of the Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Mills, has a large library and reading room.

Tbilisi, Capital of Soviet Georgia/ 16. Tbilisi has many new public parks and gardens. Here is a view of the Stalin Park./ Photo by S. Friedlyand/ No. 42931

Tbilisi, Capital of Soviet Georgia/ 8. The State Art Museum in Tbilisi. Preserved here are the best works of Georgian national art./ Photo by S. Friedlyand/ No. 42932

2. Artek. The children live in summer cottages and tents, spread out along the shore of the Black Sea. The rooms and halls in the cottages are bright and cozy.

Here and There in the Soviet Union. Baku. Geologist Sadykh Jafarov is shown here examining a survey map together with his assistant, Valentina Sozina, a participant in geological surveying expeditions. Jafarov recently shared a Stalin Prize with…

10. Turbines for the Dnieper Hydro-Electric Stations. Turbines for the Dnieper Hydro-Electric Stations/ 10. Turbines of Nazi-wrecked power stations have been sent to the Stalin Engineering Works in Leningrad for repairs. This rotor of a steam turbine…

7. The Carpets of Turkmenistan. When you meet a rider on a spirited Akhal-Tekin horse on the roads of Turkmenia, you will invariably see his crimson saddle-bag with long fringe. The pictures one of these bags spread out.