Industrial development of the USSR before the Great Patriotic War (1935-1941)

Nazi troops during the invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941. A German bomber dives toward a target.

Bombs flying down.

Bomb explosions.

A squadron of the 2nd German Air Fleet in flight.

Bombs fall out of the bomb bay.

Soviet aircraft in the late 1930s fly over one of the industrial enterprises, view of the enterprise (from above).

View of the steelmaking shop of a metallurgical plant.

Steelworkers at the furnace.

Faces of steelmakers.

Production processes in the shops of metallurgical enterprises of the USSR, views of the shops.

The foreman of steelmakers gives commands to issue a melt.

Production process in a pipe-rolling shop.

Coal is poured onto a conveyor belt.

A miner works in a coal face.

The face of a miner.

The face of a steelmaker.

Production processes in the shops of industrial enterprises of the USSR, workers at their machines.

Workers during classes at the workers' faculty and engineering courses.

A worker's faculty student, wearing bast shoes and foot wraps, at his desk during a class.

View of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Finished products of the Gorky Automobile Plant - GAZ-A cars.

Another new truck rolls off the factory conveyor.

A train with wheeled tractors on platforms passes by.