Thirty Years of the Soviet State: Calendar 1917 XXX 1947 (6)

Thirty Years of the Soviet State: Calendar 1917 XXX 1947.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Language Publishing House Moscow 1947.  Text is in English.

The Minsk tractor plant – one of the biggest construction projects of the Fourth Five-Year Plan

Stalingrad, 1945. The open hearth workshop of the Red October Works after restoration

Rehabilitation of the Kondopoga Paper Mill

Mechanical transport of timber

Blast furnace shop at the Stalin foundry in Magnitogorsk, 1946

 

The “Ilyushin-2” assembly shop 

Assembly workshop of the Stalin Automobile Plant

Blast-Furnace No.3 at Zaporozhstal

Mountains and Rivers Make Way: The Chengtu-Kunming Railroad in Photographs (2).

Mountains and Rivers Make Way: The Chengtu-Kunming Railroad in Photographs.  Paperback booklet published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1976.  All text is in English.

On July 1, 1970 the Chengtu-Kunming Railway was formally opened to traffic, ending the centuries-long history of the Szechuan-Yunnan Plateau as an area with poor communications.

The diesel locomotives for the entire line were designed and built by China.

The final rail link-up.  On July 1, 1970 the Chengtu-Kunming Railway was formally opened to traffic amidst cheering of thousands of people.

A goods train with construction materials winds its way along the route.

These walking tractors have arrived at Hsiachang Station and will be delivered to the Yi people in the Greater and Lesser Liangshan Mountains.

Timber ready for transport.  Following the completion of the railway many virgin forests have become lumberyards.

Minerals buried deep in the earth are being extracted.

And a new hydro-power station.

New towns have mushroomed along the line.  These new buildings replace the few mat sheds that were the only structures at Matao in Hsichang County before the railway went through.

Czechoslovak Spartakiades (2)

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

Some interesting highlights from this publication.

The first Spartikiade took place in Prague as far back as 1921.

Today Czechoslovak Spartakiades are held in the Strahov stadium in Prague, the largest stadium in the world.

The Strahov stadium can accommodate almost a quarter of a million spectators.

Almost 28,000 gymnasts can perform at one time on the grounds of the Strahov stadium.

Over half a million gymnasts took part in the first Spartikiade held in 1955 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army.

In 1960 more than two million spectators viewed two four-programme cycles of Spartikiade performances.

In 1965 a total of 1,365,514 gymnasts performed in 410 district and county Spartikiades.

The summer part of the 1975 Spartakiade competitions was participated in by a total of 2,714,666 gymnasts.

The composition for older pupils was designed for boys between 12-14 years old; it had elements of both gymnastic and athletic prowess

In county Spartikiades 27,133 gymnasts showed their physical fitness in the composition for men, and 11,529 participated in the culminating performance in Prague

Slovensko (3)

Slovensko (The Beauties of Slovakia: The Past and the Present).  Hardcover book published by Osveta 1975.  Text is in Czech with Russian, German, English etc translations in the back of the book.

SLOVNAFT REFINERIES AT VLCIE HRDLO

SLOVNAFT REFINERIES AT VLCIE HRDLO

COOLING TOWERS OF THE THERMAL POWER PLANT AT NOVAKY

KOSICE, AERIAL VIEW OF THE EAST SLOVAK IRON-WORKS

THERMAL POWER PLANT AT VOJANY

EVENINGS AT THE EAST SOVAK IRON-WORKS

Warszawa: o zniszczeniu i odbudowie miasta (3)

Warszawa: o zniszczeniu i odbudowie miasta by Adolf Ciborowski.  Hardcover book published by Wydawnictwo “Polonia” Warszawa 1964.  Text is in Polish with a small amount of text in English.

(Przemyst)

Elektrocieptownia Zeran

 

Zaklady Radiowe im. Kasprzka – dzielaka Wola

 

Cementownia Zeran

Magazyny w dzielnicy przemystowo-sktadowej Stuzewiec

Chtodnia

Budownictwo uprzemystowione na osiedlu Koto – ul. Gorczewska. Arch. arch.: K. Lachert I L. Zaborski

Bar “Wenecja” przy ul. Swierczewskiego. Arch. arch.: Z. Ihnatowicz, J. Sottan

Stadion X-lecia. Arch. arch.: J. Hryniewiecki, M. Leykam, Cz. Rajewski

Biurowiec “Metalexportu”. Arch. Z. Karpinski

Pyongyang (4)

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

The great leader President Kim Il Sung gives on-the-spot guidance at a cooperative farm

Pleasant rice transplanting

Bumper harvest of fruit

Bumper harvest of fruit
 

Bumper harvest of fruit

Pyongyang Hothouse Farm

Pyongyang Hothouse Farm

Czechoslovak Spartakiades

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