Kazakhstan in the second half of the 1920s and the construction of the Turksib (1927-1930)

Cotton harvesting in Kazakhstan in the second half of the 1920s.

Picked cotton is poured out of sacks.

Sheep in a flock.

A flock of sheep moves to the pasture.

Women put shorn sheep wool into a sack.

Shearing sheep.

Scissors in the hands of a shearer, the shearing process, sheep in the pasture.

Men shear sheep, women put wool into sacks.

After shearing, a sheep gets up and runs away.

The shearer ties another sack of wool.

Putting sheep wool into sacks.

Loading sacks of wool onto a camel.

Camels loaded with wool move off.

A caravan with wool during a rest stop.

Desert landscapes, the beginning of a sandstorm.

A caravan of camels moves through sand dunes.

Dry wind in the desert, camels' legs.

The movement of a caravan through a samum.

Camel drivers trying to put down camels in a storm.

Samoom in the desert, caravan movement, camels and camel drivers in clouds of sand.

One of the camel drivers trying to collect wool spilling out of a torn sack, raging simoom, wool flying out of torn bales.

A camel driver covered in sand lies near a torn bale.

Desert landscape.

Blasting operations.

Laying rails on laid sleepers.

Riveting operations.

Unloading wooden sleepers from a railway platform during the construction of the Turksib in 1927-1930. Wagon wheels rolling on laid rails.

Driving in a rivet.

Rivets on one of the metal structures.

Connecting rails, driving in spikes.

Laying a rail on sleepers.

Workers driving in spikes.

Construction work on the railway.

A working pile driver.

Transportation of rails on a handcar.

Riveters at work.

Driving a pile with a steam pile driver.

Transporting rails on horse-drawn trolleys for subsequent laying.

Movement of wagons of the laying town along a temporary railroad bed.

Washed laundry on a rope between moving wagons.

Types of railway embankment without sleepers, with laid sleepers, and with a finished railroad bed.

Blasting operations during the construction of the Turksib.

Kyrgyz workers during literacy courses.

Harvesting cotton.

Stacking bales of cotton.

A flock of sheep in a pasture.

Bales of cotton and wool before loading into railroad cars.

Parts of textile factory equipment.

Winding threads onto bobbins.