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2. On the Fields and Pastures of Soviet Turkmenia. On the Fields and Pastures of Soviet Turkmenia/ 2. A good harvest is ripening in the fields of the Voroshilov Collective Farm, Ashkhabad District. Shown here in the barley fields are Chary Muradev,…
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.
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…
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…
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
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.
Riga Institutions of Higher Learning/ 4. Professor Y. Karklin of the Latvian State Conservatory, an Honored Worker of Art of the Latvian Republic, is shown here correcting students in their harmony exercises./ Photo by V. Ruikovich/ No. 49694
82107/ June, 1947/ Riga./ The Russian and Latvian Arts Museum in Riga./ Photo by V. Feodoseyev./ PRESS PHOTOAGENCY.
Excavations on the site of the ancient town of Olvia, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Photo shows an earthenware vessel for grain (III-II centuries B.C.) which was unearthed in 1946.