Olympic Moscow (16)

 Olympic Moscow, compiled by B. Bazunov and S. Popov.  Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1979. All text is in English.

The programme of preparations for the Olympic Games of 1980 includes modernization of Moscow’s existing sports structures and the erection of new ones

A Moscow exhibition of designs of Olympic sports facilities demonstrated a high artistic and engineering level

Beautiful Kweilin (4).

Beautiful Kweilin.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1978.  All text is in English.

Lofty pinnacles like these are a common sight along the Likiang.

Shu Tung Shan (Scholar’s Page-Boy Hill) stands majestically at the river front.

This is Poland. (3)

This is Poland.  Softcover book published by Interpress Publishers Warsaw 1972, 216 pages with colour and black and white photographs and illustrations.  All text is in English.

A small village until recently, Grzybow is making a breathtaking career

A small village until recently, Grzybow is making a breathtaking career

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy (6)

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy, edited by Aleksandre Javakhishvili and Giorgi Gvelesiani.  Hardcover book published by Progress Publishers (no date).  Text is in English.

No. 1 Shoe Factory, Tbilisi

Trips and Meals: Reminiscences of touring the German Democratic Republic and enjoying the culinary specialities of its interhotels (10)

Trips and Meals: Reminiscences of touring the German Democratic Republic and enjoying the culinary specialities of its interhotels by Hans Prang and Kurt Drummer.  Hardcover book published by VEB Fachbushverlag Leipzig 1971.

 

TV-Tower – the new land-mark of the socialist capital

 

The capital’s thoroughfare: Karl-Marx-Allee in the town-centre

View of a fair exhibition-hall for electronics (Leipzig) 

Pier for shipping bulk material at deep sea harbour

 

Leninallee in Halle-Neustadt 

Catholic Church and Zeiss Skyscraper in Jena

A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih (10).

A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1974.

Rural commune members on their way to work.

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik (7)

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik.  Hardcover book published by SNTL, Prague 1957. All text is in English.

For contrast with ancient history we turn to ultra-modern GOTTWALDOV (formerly Zlin) the largest shoe-producing centre in the world, providing footwear for about 50 million people annually.

Along the Yellow River (14)

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.

 
Lu Jung-mei of the Tu nationality is a standing committee member of the Party committee of the Huchu Tu Autonomous County.  Many members of the national minorities have become cadres in the course of socialist revolution and construction.

Han Ibragin (2^nd left), a Sala peasant, studies Chairman Mao’s works with other commune members.  He is an alternate member of the Chinghai Provincial Party Committee.