USSR in the post-war period (1945-1949)

Demobilized Soviet soldiers on a train, a soldier with an accordion.

A destroyed railway station.

Soldiers in a carriage look at the roadside landscape, the soldiers' faces.

Women returning to their hometowns after liberation from the Nazi invaders pull a cart with their belongings behind them, holding a child by the hand.

A soldier at the open window of a carriage.

Women stand by the ashes.

The faces of soldiers standing in the carriage doors.

A stove remains of a destroyed house.

A woman with a child in her arms.

Panorama of a destroyed city block (from above).

Panorama of destroyed residential buildings.

Girls walk past the ruins.

A worker walks through a destroyed factory workshop.

A red flag over the entrance to the workshop of a destroyed enterprise, workers go out into the street (top-down panorama).

A sign above the entrance to the Traktorozavodsky District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

People on the steps in front of the entrance to the destroyed building.

A woman receives a document in a destroyed office.

Young people in the back of a truck with the slogan "Restore Stalingrad!" Girls in the back of a truck.

Young workers on their way to restore the Stalingrad Tractor Plant.

Restoration of a building in Kursk.

Bricklayers lay bricks.

Women dismantle stretchers.

Women carry bricks on stretchers during the restoration of an apartment building.

A tent camp amidst ruins.

The daily life of the tent camp residents.

Residents in apartments on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors of a building with a missing wall.

Girls doing their morning toilet.

Panorama of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Concrete work during the restoration of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

Miners enter the face past broken supports.

Flooding control in the mine.

Miners installing supports.

A miner speaks at a rally.

Faces of women participating in the rally.

Panorama of part of the rally (from above).

Raising the red flag over the plant.

A herd of cows being driven to the collective farm.

Threshing the new harvest, loading sacks onto a cart.

Women tie up the sacks of threshed grain.

A geological survey team travels through the taiga.

Geologists at work searching for samples.

A female geologist.

Pack animals haul lumber up a mountain.

Riders climb a mountain on horseback.

A view of an oil rig.

Women manually dig a trench for a pipeline.

Pipeline welding.

Drillers lower a drill into an oil well.

Winnowing the new cotton crop.

Tea harvesting with combines.

Trucks on the road in one of the Soviet republics of Central Asia.