USSR in the late 1920s (1929)

A speaker delivering a speech from the rostrum at the 1st Congress of Soviets of the Moscow Region on September 19-23, 1929, in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Delegates listening to the speaker and voting.

View of the presidium of the congress.

Face of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR S.I. Syrtsov speaking to the congress delegates.

View of part of the congress meeting hall.

Red Army soldiers in helmets enter the hall to deliver greetings to the congress from the Red Army.

One of the Red Army soldiers delivers a welcoming speech.

Face of a woman.

Congress delegates in the hall.

View of the miners' settlement in Bobriki, Tula District.

View of the construction of one of the mines in the Moscow Region coal basin.

Houses of the workers' settlement.

Above-ground structures of one of the coal mines.

Construction work at one of the mines.

Transportation of earth in hand wheelbarrows, excavation work.

Haulage cars on rails.

Movement of cars.

Workers use shovels to throw coal onto a conveyor belt.

Conveyor in operation.

Coal cars move along rails.

Awarding the AMO plant staff with the Challenge Red Banner of the Proletarian District Council for the best performance in subscribing to the 3rd Industrialization Loan.

Text embroidered on the banner.

Workers' faces during a ceremonial meeting.

One of the workers giving a speech.

View of a ceremonial meeting in the plant shop, speaker on the podium (top).

A commander of one of the Red Army units attaches a banner with a slogan in Ukrainian to the side of a truck.

Drivers start the engines of their trucks.

Trucks with Red Army soldiers in the back leave for the sponsored collective farm.

Red Army soldiers help the collective farmers, unload hay from the backs of the trucks.

Red Army soldiers and commanders take part in threshing the new harvest grain on the threshing floor.

Thresher in operation.

Filling sacks with grain.

Weighing the sacks.

A Red Army commander and a peasant inspect the grain of the new harvest.

Commanders talk to collective farmers.

A truck with sacks of grain leaves the gate.

Restoring agricultural equipment in a metalworking shop.

A collective farmer repairs a horse collar.

Red Army soldiers help collective farmers repair agricultural equipment.

A woman with a baby in her arms.

Warming up a harrow part in a field forge.

Haymaking at the Usman grain state farm in the Samara district.

Construction of one of the monolithic buildings on the state farm, manual concrete work.

Compacting concrete mortar in a formwork trough with bare feet.

Construction of a road to an elevator using agricultural machinery, leveling the roadbed soil.

View of the dirt roadbed.

View of the brick factory of the state farm.

Transportation of finished bricks in hand wheelbarrows.

A tractor-trailer combine harvesting crops on one of the fields of a state farm.

A tractor train with fuel passes by.

Harvesting crops with tractor-trailer combines.

Threshing grain of the new harvest, threshing machines at work.

Threshed grain pours out of the threshing machine sleeve.

A stack of sacks with grain of the new harvest.