Successes of agriculture in the USSR (1958-1959)

Ripening beets in a field.

Harvesting sugar beets with a trailed combine on one of the collective farms of the USSR. Unloading harvested sugar beets at one of the vegetable bases.

Plantation of ripe cotton.

Manual cotton harvesting in the Uzbek SSR. Harvesting with a cotton picker.

Machine operator Tyupko at the controls of the combine.

Ripe cotton bolls.

Bunches of ripening grapes.

Harvesting grapes.

Sorting grapes, preparing for packaging.

Women picking tea on one of the plantations of the Georgian SSR. Cutting tea leaves with pruning shears.

The face of a picker.

View of a tea plantation.

Unloading grain at elevators.

Grain pouring out of the back of a truck.

Arrival of trucks with grain at elevators.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Delegates of the 21st Congress of the CPSU in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace during the congress from January 27 to February 5, 1959. Delegates of the congress chatting with each other.

A snowstorm in the countryside.

A collective farm carrying out snow retention measures using a bulldozer.

A stream of meltwater in the foothills of the Caucasus.

A stork sits on its nest.

Small aircraft treating collective farm fields with chemicals and fertilizers.

A herd grazing in the mountains.