Olympic Moscow (21)

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

Dynamo Stadium, a veteran among Moscow’s sports facilities, is being modernized and enlarged for the 1980 games

Dynamo Stadium, a veteran among Moscow’s sports facilities, is being modernized and enlarged for the 1980 games

 
The Central Army Club’s centre is widely known as a venue of international competitions

Spartak sports centre

Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR: Unter den Linden (The avenue Unter den Linden).

Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR: Unter den Linden (The avenue Unter den Linden).  Paperback booklet published by Berlin-Information 1980, 40 pages.

Soviet Siberia (5).

Soviet Siberia by E. Klenov and G. Paderin.  Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Progress Publishers Moscow 1970, unpaginated with colour and black and white photographs.

Akademgorodok, Zheleznogorsk and Angarsk are brand-new towns.  But the older towns, like Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Irkutsk, Tomsk and Barnaul are now being born anew.  Wide avenues, flanked by modern multistoreyed blocks…

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun (3).

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1974.  All text is in English.

First Secretary Tien Hsiu-ching of the Commune Party Committee (3^rd from left) and Secretary Chiu Chi-yu (5^th from left) chat with commune members during a work-break; like all cadres here, they take part regularly in field labour.

Yen Hung-en (centre), one of the many peasant experts trained by the commune, gives lessons to young wheat-growers in his specialty, the improvement of seed strains.

Following the mass line, Liuchiang’s Party Secretary Shih Lai-ho (centre) consults old peasants, his favourite advisers, on how to raise cotton yields further.

Tung Tao-jung (1^st from left) who toiled for a landlord’s family from the age of nine before the liberation, is now a deputy Party secretary of the Chiliying brigade of women’s and public health work.

This is Poland (6)

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.

Harvesting in state and cooperative farms is largely mechanized

Harvest-time

 

Harvesting over, tractors move in to plough up the fields

Moscow: A short guide by Valdimir Chernov (5)

Moscow: A short guide by Valdimir Chernov.  Hardcover book with pictorial boards published by Moscow Progress Publishers 1979, 197 pages.

Moscow Art Theatre (new building on Tverskoi Boulevard)

 

Kalinn Prospekt. Metelitsa Café, a favourite with young Muscovites

Along the Yellow River (17)

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.

Borchoo (2^nd left), one of the first Mongolian steel workers, is vice-chairman of the revolutionary committee of the steel plant of the Paotow Iron and Steel Company.  Before liberation he was a herd owner’s slave.

Soviet Georgia: It’s Geography, History and Economy (9)

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.

A new café in Tbilisi