Achievements of the USSR in the 20th century (1925-1965)

Construction of one of the hydroelectric power stations on the Angara in the late 1950s.

Leading miners congratulate each other on their labor record in 1935. Passengers of the Moscow metro descend the escalators during the opening of traffic on May 15, 1935, waving their hats.

The face of the physicist I.V. Kurchatov.

Faces of leading workers. S.M. Kirov speaks at a rally in the early 1930s.

Turksib builders on the first train after the opening of traffic on April 21, 1930. Views of the construction of blast furnaces at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works in 1932. View of one of the new industrial enterprises.

Vancouver residents greet Chkalov's crew, who made a nonstop flight across the North Pole on June 20, 1937, V.P. Chkalov after landing.

Workers at their machines.

Physicist A. I. Leipunsky gives a lecture.

A scientist looks through a microscope.

A nuclear scientist gives a report.

Faces of Divnogorsk mountaineering athletes working on the construction of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station in the second half of the 1950s.

View of a part of the dam and the dam under construction (above).

Young people leaving for the virgin lands wave goodbye from the windows of passing carriages. N. S. Khrushchev on the podium during the opening ceremony of the North Crimean Canal in 1958. Streams of water rush along the open channel.

The first builders of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works walk along the snow-covered slope of Mount Magnitnaya to mark the construction site of the future iron and steel works in 1929. A snowdrift and blizzard are sweeping.

Loading soil into wheelbarrows during night work.

Seeing off institute graduates leaving for the virgin lands.

View of the front of a locomotive.

Seeing-off people rock one of the virgin land workers.

Faces of young people leaving for the virgin lands.

Relatives waving goodbye.

Virgin land workers travel across the steppe to their place of residence and work on a sled and tractor train.

Plowing the land on virgin lands.

Shoots in the field (top).

View of part of the grain field (top).

Threshed grain pours out of the combine harvester sleeve into the back of a truck.

Workers of various specialties at the construction site of one of the industrial enterprises.

A welder welds his Komsomol badge to the concrete at the top of a blast furnace.

A high-altitude electrician climbs a power transmission line (PTL) mast.

Installation of PTL insulators.

Blasting and excavation work in 1959-1965. A machine operator in the bulldozer cabin.

Steelworkers at an open-hearth furnace in 1936. The face of the leading steelmaker M. Mazai.

Stakhanov A.G. and his comrades emerge from the face of the Central-Irmino mine on August 31, 1935, after setting a world record for coal production in a shift.

Stakhanov working at the face.

Coal on a conveyor belt.

A train moving (top).

Winding rolls of finished fabric at a weaving mill.

Stakhanovite weavers Evdokia and Maria Vinogradov at work.

Sugar beet grower Maria Demchenko harvesting.

Tractor brigade foreman Pasha Angelina handing out work orders.

A passenger looks out the carriage window.

A train passes over a wooden bridge.

Construction of the Turksib, laying rails.

View of the locomotive boiler, a locomotive goes along the new Turksib branch.

Kalinin M.I. on Red Square.

Athletes march across Red Square on May 1, 1925. Kalinin on Red Square during the May Day demonstration.

Views of columns of May Day demonstrations in Moscow in 1927-1935. Young buglers in civil air fleet uniform are walking.

Faces of participants in a festive rally.

View of a part of the Komsomolskaya metro station.

Faces of collective farm women during a village festival.

Holidays in a Carpathian village.

The face of a tractor driver.

Faces of workers at a machine.

Driving in spikes during the laying of a railway track.

Concrete work during the construction of one of the industrial enterprises.

Manual earthworks during the construction of an irrigation canal.

Blasting operations in the mountains.

Tamping concrete with feet.

Carrying out manual earthworks during construction, panorama of a belt conveyor with soil.

Workers go to the village to organize collective farms.

Tsiolkovsky K.E. writes another article on the theory of rocket flights in 1932. Tsiolkovsky in his workshop in Kaluga works with assistants on a large-scale model of an airship in a metal shell.

Workers at the construction of a railway track, driving in spikes by hand.

A steam locomotive travels at high speed along a section of the Turksib, with riders galloping behind it.

The shadow of a steam locomotive.

A Kazakh jumps off a camel and runs along the railway track behind a train.

Faces of women and children.

The face of Stakhanov working in the coalface.

The face of one of the miners.

Polar explorer Demb (Demme) gives an interview.

Welding large-diameter pipes in the 1960s, welders at work.

View of part of an industrial enterprise under construction.

Panorama of the reinforcement cage of one of the walls, welders at work.

Assembling the reinforcement cage.

Panorama of the construction of one of the industrial enterprises.

Water flowing through the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station in the early 1950s.

View of a part of the hydroelectric power station dam (from above).

View of the construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station.

Sketch of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station.

Installation of large catches and structures during the construction of one of the industrial enterprises, faces of the fitters.

Yuri Gagarin in the cabin of the spacecraft before the launch on April 12, 1961. The launch of the spacecraft.

The contrail in the sky from the rocket engines.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov's spacewalk on March 18, 1965, Leonov's face behind the glass of his helmet.

Residents of Moscow during the meeting with Leonov.