USSR at the turn of the 1920s-1930s (1929-1933)

View of one of the buildings of the Oryol Agricultural Machinery Plant, draymen on sleds carrying agricultural equipment intended for shipment to collective farms.

View of a sled train with agricultural equipment for collective farms heading to a railway station.

Unloading plows from sleds at a warehouse.

Installing plows on a platform before loading into wagons.

New plows on a platform before loading.

Loading plows into a wagon.

Commander of the 1st Zaporizhzhya Red Cavalry Division Demichev M.A. on horseback next to the standard-bearer on the day of the division's 10th anniversary in Proskurov in November 1929.

Commander of the 1st Zaporizhzhya Red Cavalry Division Demichev M.A. on horseback next to the standard-bearer on the day of the division's 10th anniversary in Proskurov in November 1929. Division soldiers in saddles.

The division in parade formation.

Assistant to the Commander of the Ukrainian Military District Dubovoy I.N. and People's Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR Skripnik N.A. ride around the division's parade formation in a car, cavalrymen in saddles.

Skripnik reads out the order to award the division the Order of the Red Banner.

Cavalrymen in saddles.

Skripnik attaches the order to the division's banner.

A representative of the Ukrainian workers speaks.

The commander of one of the division's units in the saddle.

A representative of the workers presents the banner to the division commander.

Veterans of the division, participants of the civil war, ride in a mounted formation with red banners in their hands.

Parade of veterans and personnel of the division.

Members of the atheist activists of the city of Marxstadt of the Volga German Republic during a rally on the occasion of the closure of the Lutheran and Catholic churches.

Banner in the hands of the rally participants.

Faces of the rally participants.

Foreign military attachés who arrived for the exercises of the 1st Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division in January 1933.

Foreign military attachés who arrived for the exercises of the 1st Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division in January 1933 go to an observation post.

Military attachés at an observation post.

Division soldiers in camouflage suits and on skis attack a simulated enemy.

A liaison plane taking off.

A Red Army soldier with a rifle on skis.

A liaison plane in flight.

Dropping a pennant on the snow with a report.

A Red Army soldier on skis picks up a pennant dropped from an airplane.

Dropping a pennant with a report from a communications aircraft during exercises of the 1st Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division in January 1933. A Red Army soldier on skis picks up a pennant with a report.

Delivering a report to one of the commanders.

The commander unfolds and reads the report, assigns a task to the communications delegate.

Machine gunners in position.

An artillery piece in a firing position fires at a simulated enemy.

A Red Army soldier fires a rifle while skiing.

Artillery fires.

View of one of the division's horse artillery units on the march (from above).

Foreign military attachés watch the flying aircraft.

A flight of aircraft flies by.

Units of the division are sent to barracks after the end of the exercises, faces of foreign military attachés.

Views of the construction of metro stations on the streets of Moscow in the winter-spring of 1933. Earthworks on the laying of one of the tunnels using the open method.

Excavation and dumping of soil from a crane bucket.

Supply of concrete solution.

Mortar supply and concrete work during the open-pit construction of one of the Moscow metro tunnels in 1933. Faces of female concrete workers.

Unloading soil from mine cars.

Workers from Moscow enterprises during a subbotnik for the construction of the metro.

Earthworks during the construction of the metro.

A cab driver waiting for passengers on a street in Moscow.

The face of a cab driver.

The head of a chewing horse.

A steam pile driver.

Moscow Komsomol members during earthworks during the construction of the metro.

Driving piles with a steam pile driver.

Girls rolling soil in a tunnel being built using the open-pit method.

View of part of Palace Square in Leningrad with troops lined up for the parade on November 7, 1933 (above).

View of Palace Square in Leningrad with troops lined up for parade on November 7, 1933 (above).

Red Army and Red Navy soldiers in parade formation.

Faces of tank crews.

A gas generator tractor on the square.

A unit of airborne troops in white camouflage suits in parade formation on Palace Square.

Troops of the Leningrad garrison march along Palace Square in parade formation (from different angles).

Units of sailors of the Baltic Fleet march along Palace Square.

First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee Kirov S.M. on the tribune.

Communication vehicles and trucks with anti-aircraft guns at the parade.

Medium and light tanks march along Palace Square.

Views of Palace Square during the passage of armored vehicles.

Views of columns of the festive demonstration on Palace Square, Kirov from the tribune greeting the participants of the demonstration.

Trucks with banners and a model boat at the demonstration, Kirov's face.

Trucks with models of diagrams move in columns.

Hot air balloons above the columns of demonstrators.

One of the columns of the demonstration moves along Palace Square.

View of Palace Square during the demonstration (above).

Caterpillar tractors delivered to Stalinabad in 1930. Delivery of fuel for tractors.

Mayakovsky V.V. on his deathbed in April 1930. Mayakovsky at a meeting of the State Publishing House in 1923. Mayakovsky speaking on stage in the House of Unions.

Pioneers making figures of bourgeois and priests for the upcoming demonstration.

Making heads of caricature figures of the oil magnate Deterding and Pope Pius XI.