Fighting hunger and devastation in Russia after the civil war (1919-1922)

Women and children in a refugee camp from the starving regions of the Volga region.

Panorama of a destroyed city block, a woman and a girl walking down the street into the distance.

A queue on one of the streets of Petrograd in 1919-1920. A photograph of a street child with a piece of bread in his hands.

Derailed railway platforms.

View of a destroyed railway bridge.

Platforms with firewood that have derailed.

Carriages of a train that crashed.

Uncoupling the cars of a train after a crash.

A locomotive with a damaged driver's cab.

View of the front of a derailed and sideways locomotive.

A railway freight platform and a locomotive after a crash.

Workers among the wreckage of cars.

Pulling away the wreckage of cars and platforms with a tug.

Workers dismantle the wreckage of cars of a crashed train.

Starving children in a queue for food.

A peasant holds burnt grain in his hand.

People around a fire on a city street in winter.

Faces of freezing children.

Children enter through an open gate.

Children take turns approaching the table and receiving bread.

A nurse in a hospital ward feeds an emaciated boy with a spoon.

Children on a hospital bed eat soup from a pot.

Distribution of food to the starving from a field kitchen.

Filling pots with soup.

Refugees on the side of the road.

A horse searches for dry grass under the snow.

Exhausted children at a railway station.

Refugees from starving areas walk with pots for food.

Orderlies pile people sick with typhus on the pier.

Children eat soup from pots.

Children at tables during lunch in the fresh air (panorama).

A line of children from an orphanage passes by.

Children's bread card of the Moscow Commune for 1921. A street child with a cigarette in his mouth.

Unloading portions of bread from a train car.

Distributing bread to starving children.

Refugees from famine-stricken areas queue for food.

Starving people eat soup and bread while sitting on railroad tracks.

Faces of adults and children affected by hunger.

Dilapidated huts with leaky roofs.

Children taken from the famine-stricken area are unloaded from a laundry car.

A doctor examines a child emaciated by hunger.

Palpating a child's body.

Street children smoke while sitting in an asphalt vat.

The face of one of the street children.

Street children share cigarette butts they find.

Unloading sacks of grain from a car and carrying them to the station warehouse.

Removing the lid from a boiling cauldron.