Praha, Jeji Krasy (Prague - Its beauty) (3).

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

Prague children in the Petrin Gardens

Recreation on the Novodvorska housing estate

New China (8)

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

Students of the capital march past Tien An Men. Every year on October 1, people throughout the country enthusiastically celebrate the founding of the People’s Republic of China

Moscow by Yury Balanenko and Alexander Berezin (8).

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.

Yury Gagarin, the world’s first cosmonaut, and Sergei Korolev, the outstanding Soviet designer, were close friends. These photographs were taken at Yury Gagarin’s home in March 1968, at the last interview given by the pioneer hero of space.

This is Poland (16)

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.

Soviet Siberia (11).

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.

 A great deal impresses the visitors, but perhaps nothing so much as the magnificent group of scientific institutes founded by the Siberian Branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences near Novosibirsk. In 1957 it was decided to build…

… Akademgorodok (Academy Township). In a very short time modern laboratories and attractive housing estates with all modern conveniences had sprung up in a picturesque birch wood. Siberian scientists are working on a vast variety of problems from genetics to archaeology, from permafrost…

A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih (11).

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

A workers’ residential area.

Czechoslovakia by Frantisek Rachlik. (21)

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

Light athletics is a widely practiced popular sport. In ten years (1945-1955) Czechoslovak sportsmen achieved 36 worlds records in light athletics.

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (26).

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 stand of nationally-owned motor-car works VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach at the Vienna Spring Fair.