Along the Yellow River.

Along the Yellow River.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1975. (This album is made based on pictures and texts which appeared in China Pictorial between June 1973 and May 1974, with some editorial changes.) Text is in English.

School-leavers from the cities form a new work-force on a state farm.

Hradec Kralove (3).

Hradec Kralove, fotografie Zdenek Menec.  Hardcover book published 1982.  Text is in Czech.

Most Antonina Zapotockeho, v pozadi mestska pamatkova rezervace.

Sidliste Labska I.

Krizovatka a podchod na Dukelske tride.

Krizovatka u Koruny.

North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il, December 2011

Pyongyang (8).

Pyongyang.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Publishing House Pyongyang, DPRK 1980.  Text is in English.

Kid “masters”

The great leader President Kim Il Sung with schoolgirls

The Mangyongdae Revolution School

Students at the school grow as competent successors to the revolution

A group member has a rehearsal of piano under the teacher

The hour of “building houses”

The hour of Korean language

The counting

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (2).

Deutsche Demokratische Republik.  Hardcover book published by Sachsenverlag Dresden 1959.  All text is in German.  There is a booklet with Russian, English, French and Spanish translations.

 

“Black-Pump” – Europe’s biggest lignite combin under construction

“Black-Pump” – Europe’s biggest lignite combin under construction

“Black-Pump” – Europe’s biggest lignite combin under construction

Chinese Martial Arts (2).

Chinese Martial Arts.  Paperback published by Zhaohua Publishing House, Beijing, 1982.  All text is in English.

A barehand fight is always done on an attack-defend-counterattack pattern.

A sword duel.

Moscow Metro Photoguide (3)

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

A Hill Region Transformed: Introducing the Pi-Shih-Hang Irrigation System (7)

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

It has self-reliantly set up this small synthetic ammonia fertilizer plant.

Hradec Kralove (2).

Hradec Kralove, fotografie Zdenek Menec.  Hardcover book published 1982.  Text is in Czech.

Gymnazium J.K. Tyla se Stursovou plastikou Vitez.

Lekarska fakulta Karlovy university.

Statni banka ceskoslovenska na namesti Osvoboditelu.

Kulturni dum ROH.

Gottwaldovo namesti

Moscow Metro Photoguide (2)

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

Sokolniki Recreation Park

 

A Hill Region Transformed: Introducing the Pi-Shih-Hang Irrigation System (6)

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

With electricity, the local communes and brigades have developed industrial enterprises quickly.  This is a machinery repair shop in Hungchi Commune, Huochiu County.

Final inspection of walking tractors before leaving this Lu-an factory.

On-off devices for control of water going through dams.  Produced by a Lu-an farm machinery plant, they fill a need for water conservancy projects.

Assembly shop of the Anhwei Tractor Factory in Hofei.

Yugloslavia: Past and Present (7)

Yugloslavia: 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.

The Maestral Hotel in Brela.  This modern hotel fits in Harmoniously with the surrounding woods, mountains and sea.

Czechoslovak Spartakiades (5)

Czechoslovak Spartakiades by Julius Chvalny.  Hardcover book published by Orbis Press Agency, Prague.  Text is in Russian, English, German, French and Spanish.

A tide of more than 100,000 cheering and happy young gymnasts flood the capital of Czechoslovakia during the giant Spartikiade parade

Health and optimism are revealed in the faces of women and girls in the Spartikiade parade on Wencelas Square in the centre of Prague

The arms of girl gymnasts seem to create a lovely rosette growing out of the masterful blending of movement

The unique gymnastic display put on by the soldiers could not be spoiled even by heavy downpours which fell on two performances of 13,824 real men!

Even in a heavy downpour on the muddy field the girls did not lose their vitality and smiles