Sputnik: Digest of Soviet Press: 1 January 1978. (2)

Sputnik: Digest of Soviet Press: 1 January 1978. Paperback magazine published by Novosti Press Agency. All text is in English.

The Grand Canal: An Odyssey (5)

The Grand Canal: An Odyssey. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1987, 197 pages.

Quanqian Street has been a business centre since ancient times. The old and well know shops selling famous Suzhou specialities are almost all to be found in this street.

Almost all the famous restaurants in Suzhou are to be found in this street.

Sputnik: Digest of Soviet Press: 1 January 1978.

Sputnik: Digest of Soviet Press: 1 January 1978. Paperback magazine published by Novosti Press Agency. All text is in English.

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture (7).

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture. Paperback booklet published by Foreign Languages Press 1972, 29 pages. All text is in English.

Severe cold of 22 degrees below zero centigrade cannot dampen the peasants' determination to terrace the gullies.

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik. (25)

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

Érdekes Kalendárium 1978 (9).

Érdekes Kalendárium 1978. Paperback book/magazine published by Kossuth Könyvkiadó Budapest 1978, 192 pages. All text is in Hungarian.

Akornyezet vedelmeert

The Panpo Site Museum.

The Panpo Site Museum. Paperback booklet published 1978, unpaginated with colour and black and white photographs. Text is in Chinese and English.

 The Panpo Site Museum

Inside the exhibition room

Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty) (6).

Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty). Hardcover book published by Olympia 1985, with Czech text with various translations at the back of the book.

The Federal Assembly

Terrace houses in Prague 4

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (29).

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.

The monument of the Truemmerfrau (woman who helps to remove ruins) in front of the Town Hall

Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin (11).

Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin. Hardcover book published by Planeta Publishers Moscow 1975, 207 pages with colour and black and white photographs. All text is in English.

The Grand Canal: An Odyssey (4)

The Grand Canal: An Odyssey. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1987, 197 pages.

A silk mill in Shengze.

Soviet Siberia (15).

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.

He may stand at the helm of the atomic icebreaker Lenin, leading convoys of ships along routes only recently chartered.

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture (6).

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture.  Paperback booklet published by Foreign Languages Press 1972, 29 pages. All text is in English.

Tachai peasants in the thick of the battle to transform nature.

Party branch secretary Chen Yung-kuei (left) joins the peasants in damming up the terraced fields.

Braving winter cold the young people carry big rocks to dam up the terraced fields.

Carry on the revolutionary tradition of hard work, Tachai peasants say: “In fighting revisionism we must not abandon our shoulder poles but should use them till the coming of communism.”

Crimea: Architecture Monuments (6).

Crimea: Architecture Monuments. Hardcover book published in 1991, 255 pages with colour photographs. Text is in Russian, English and German.

At the corner of Kirov Prospekt and Sovietskaya Square

The public centre of Yalta

The public centre of Yalta

This is Poland (19)

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.

…inscriptions read: “To Heroes of September 1939”, “To Lubin Region Partisans 1939-1945”, “To Soldiers of the 1^st Polish Army 1944-1945”

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik. (24)

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

USTI ON THE ELBE. Industrial and commercial town in northern Bohemia with a transshipment port for exports especially to the west

The ship building yard at KOMARNO on the Danube has developed into one of the largest of its kind in Central Europe. Large ships for river transport are built here.

Soviet Siberia (14).

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.

He may be a geologist or a metal worker. Or he may help build some new town as well-planned and cheerful as that pearl of the Arctic – Norlisk.

New China (10)

New China. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1953, unpaginated with black and white photographs. All text is in English.

The China Medical College in Shenyang (Mukden), Northeast China. To meet present-day needs, the College emphasizes preventative medicine and the training of needed specialists

Two students of China’s largest agicultural university of Agriculture in Peking. The students of this well-equiped university are trained in advanced Soviet agricultural science and study the age-old farming experience of China’s multi-million peasantry

Peasant girls attending class in a winter school. In the winter of 1952-53 some 50 million peasants attended winter schools for combating illiteracy. Peasant education made such a rapid advance that by the end of 1952 twenty six million had been transferred to regular schools

Children of Uigher nationality learn to write in their own language. In 1951, there were over 9,100 primary schools and 117 secondary schools of the national minorities in Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Sinkiang, Chinghai, Ningsia, and other provinces.

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia) (3)

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia). Hardcover book published by Riga Avots 1985, 215 pages with colour photographs throughout.

Employees of the VEF have kindergartens, pioneer-camps, the rest-house in Jurmala for 1000 people annually at their disposal. The enterprise has a hospital, a preventorium, a science and culture palace, a complex of sport facilities as well as a large public catering establishement with specialized pavilions, cafes and snack-bars

Érdekes Kalendárium 1978 (8).

Érdekes Kalendárium 1978. Paperback book/magazine published by Kossuth Könyvkiadó Budapest 1978, 192 pages. All text is in Hungarian.

Akornyezet vedelmeert

The Grand Canal: An Odyssey (3)

The Grand Canal: An Odyssey. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1987, 197 pages.

 The speeding modern vehicles contrasted with the slow-walking mares make a peculiar sight in Tongzhou.

Huaiyn, formerly named Qingjiangpu, used to be an important city in northern Jiangsu.

Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty) (5).

Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty). Hardcover book published by Olympia 1985, with Czech text with various translations at the back of the book.

Soviet Tank Corp Square

Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin (10).

Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin.  Hardcover book published by Planeta Publishers Moscow 1975, 207 pages with colour and black and white photographs. All text is in English.

Once upon a time more than 350 studios and offices were involved in the designing of homes in Moscow and all the amenity buildings that go with them.

The Blue Adriatic (2)

The Blue Adriatic. Hardcover book published by Spektar, Zagreb (no date). Text is in Croato-Serbian, English, German, Italian and French.

Vrsar,Croatia

This is Poland (18)

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.

 The mining profession is held in high respect in Poland

Combine employees’ main job is supervision and upkeep of automated equipment

Modern technology requires highly qualified personnel