A Hill Region Transformed: Introducing the Pi-Shih-Hang Irrigation System (5)

A Hill Region Transformed: Introducing the Pi-Shih-Hang Irrigation System.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1979.  Text is in English.

The old scene: backbreaking toil of pedaling water-wheels to irrigate the thirsty land.

Moscow Metro Photoguide

Moscow Metro Photoguide, written and compiled by Valentin Berezin, photos by Alexander Terziyev.  Hardcover published by Planeta Publishers 1986.  Text is in English.

Warszawa: o zniszczeniu i odbudowie miasta (6)

Warszawa: o zniszczeniu i odbudowie miasta by Adolf Ciborowski.  Hardcover book published by Wydawnictwo “Polonia” Warszawa 1964.  Text is in Polish with a small amount of text in English.

Makieta dworca Centralnego

Makieta osiedla Plac Teatralny

Makieta zabudowy wschodniej strony Placu Defilad.

Projekt Zabudowy strony wschodniej Placu Defilad.

Perspektywy rozwoju

Slovensko (7)

Slovensko (The Beauties of Slovakia: The Past and the Present).  Hardcover book published by Osveta 1975.  Text is in Czech with Russian, German, English etc translations in the back of the book.

BANOVCE NAD BEBRAVOU – NATIONAL ENTERPRISE

Тошкент (Tashkent)

Тошкент (Tashkent).  Hardcover book published by Uzbek Society for Cultural Ties Abroad no date, probably 1950s or 1960s.  All text is in Russian, translations are approximations only.  All images are photographs which have been stuck to the pages.

Theatre Square

Memorial to Alisher Navoi

Pioneer Palace named after Stalin

Polyclinic building on Lenin St.

Television centre

Institute of Engineers of Railway Transport

Birun Square

Apartments on Shot Rustavel St.

Library named after Alisher Navoi

School No 26

Komsomol Lake

Yugoslavia: Past and Present (5)

Yugoslavia: Past and Present, edited by Radmila Matic.  Hardcover book published by Yugoslav Review, Belgrade and David Harvey, London (no date, probably late 1960s or early 1970s). Text is in English.

Split Airport has services to or connecting with all the major cities of Europe.  Itself a big tourist centre, Split also has regular boat services to the islands of the Adriatic.

Since the war, the network of airports has been steadily expanded.  Today, Yugoslavia has 12 for civil aviation, some of these among the most up-to-date in the world.  In the picture: the runway at Belgrade Airport can take the biggest planes currently in operation.

A Hill Region Transformed: Introducing the Pi-Shih-Hang Irrigation System (4)

A Hill Region Transformed: Introducing the Pi-Shih-Hang Irrigation System.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1979.  Text is in English.

Reservoir builders at work.

Reservoir builders at work.

Commune peasants at Chingfend Ridge, Lu-an County, have surplus grain to sell to the state now that water is piped up the hilly terrain.  Before liberation, the place was barren, and even chickens perished due to the long dry spells.

Self sufficient in grain since 1971, the commune has made available to the state’s markets at least 2.5 million kg. of grain every year.

Chinchai’s Shuangshih Commune goes all out to transform its hills into terraced fields.