"Putearmeytsy" at the construction of railways (1932-1935)

Prisoners working on a railway embankment break up the earth with picks.

Excavator bucket. "Track army men" loading earth into carts and transporting it during railway construction in winter conditions.

View of part of the railway embankment construction and the equipment site (top).

Removing earth with hand carts, full and empty carts drive along a plank.

Loading earth into coupled wagons.

Loading earth with shovels into a two-wheeled cart.

Excavator bucket. "Track army men" breaking up a slope with picks and shovels, views of the slope.

Crushing a rock.

A worker breaks up rocks with a jackhammer, unloading earth from wagons.

Loading a rail onto a cart for transportation and subsequent laying on sleepers. "Track army men" carry wheelbarrows with earth, a freight train drives past.

Rails being transported on a trolley along a laid railway track.

A train of boxcars is moving, prisoners are transporting soil in wheelbarrows.

Concrete work, mixing crushed stone with cement mortar.

Transportation of crushed stone in wheelbarrows. "Track Army men" are driving spikes into sleepers during the laying of a railway track.

Faces of the "Track Army men" at work, a view of a section of the track under construction. "Track Army men" are going to work.

Laying wooden sleepers on an embankment.

A view of the new railway track and sleepers laid parallel to each other.

A panorama of a section of the ceremonial meeting.

Awarding of the best construction workers.

Faces of the "Track Army men" - shock workers of the construction.

One of the builders is doing an exercise on the rings during a sports festival in honor of the opening of another section of the railway.

Dancing to a brass band.

Meeting of the track army men by cultural figures.

Panorama of the ceremonial meeting with the participation of "road army men" and OGPU employees.

Football match during the sports festival.

Types of housing of "road army men".

One of the foremen, Aksamentova, speaks to the members of her brigade about concluding an agreement on socialist competition, Aksamentova's face.

Aksamentova and the foreman of the neighboring brigade, Egorov, sign the agreement.