Construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (1929)

View of the construction work of the Dnieper reservoir near Kichkas.

An excavator at the construction site.

Movement of hand trucks with soil on wooden platforms (above).

One of the concrete mixers in operation.

A working steam excavator.

Views of construction, excavators installed on rails.

Transportation of boulders in a bucket suspended from the boom of a crane.

View of part of the construction.

Booms of cranes.

A steam excavator at work during the construction of the Dnieper Reservoir near Kichkas.

A view of part of one of the concrete mixers.

An excavator mounted on rails.

A view of part of the construction site, wooden platforms for transporting soil in hand trucks (above).

A bricklayer scoops cement mortar into a bucket.

Spreading mortar over the masonry.

Masons lay bricks.