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8. Here and There in the Soviet Union. Looking down Shevchenko Boulevard, one of the main thoroughfares of Kiev.

19. 29th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (Science) In Soviet times some 380,000 lines of the Kirghiz folk epic, Manas, have been recorded. Before the revolution these poetic tales were preserved only in the memories of the…

November, 1945. Kiirghizian Soviet Socialist Republic. Laboratory of the Institute of Chemistry of the Kirghizian branch of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. Right: Professor of Chemistry Krestinskaya and post-graduate Gulsim Aimukhamedova…

Here and There in the Soviet Union. Kiev, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, is among the cities of the USSR which suffered the greatest damage from the invasion of the Hitlerite hordes. The invaders reduced whole blocks of the city to ruins,…

Russia Rebuilds Her Power Plants: Though it is taking time Russia is steadily rebuilding her ruined power plants in the industrial Donets Basin which yields coal and iron. Photo shows the reconstruction of the Kurachkin Power Plant.

Northern Korea. Please Credit WORLD NEWS SERVICES/ Northern Korea./ Korea was under the sway of the Japanese for over 40 years. Two years ago Soviet Army troops fought their way into Northern Korea and liberated her people. Since then democratic…

Northern Korea. Please Credit WORLD NEWS SERVICES/ Northern Korea./ Photo shows: Korean girl students of the People's University. For the first time in the history of Korea her women have been given an opportunity to study at higher levels in…

Northern Korea. Please Credit WORLD NEWS SERVICES/ Northern Korea./ Photo shows: A Soviet hospital in Chinnampo. Korean people now enjoy skilled medical aid, well-equipped government hospitals function in towns. A medical department has been set up…

Northern Korea. Please Credit WORLD NEWS SERVICES/ Northern Korea./ Photo shows: School-girls dancing in a square of Phyongyang on the day of the elections to the Provisional People's Committee of Northern Korea.

Women of the Mountains by L. Khvat/ 8. Geography class at the Frunze Pedagogical School. In the foreground -- second year student Sakish Dzhusopova./ Photo by M. Savin