



Work in the forge.
Collective farm chairman Kirill Orlovsky.
Collective farmers are assembling a cart and repairing the harness.
recovery, village, village, the first post-war years, USSR
Kirill Orlovsky, chairman of the Rassvet collective farm and an employee of the USSR state security agencies
Byelorussian SSR, Belarus




Men are bringing carts to the village square.
Boys are running down the street, and Chairman Orlovsky is walking.
Carts with lead horses are entering the village.
The collective farmers have received their horses.
recovery, village, collective farm, USSR, everyday life, five-year plan
Kirill Orlovsky, chairman of the Rassvet collective farm and an employee of the USSR state security agencies
Byelorussian SSR, Belarus




K. Orlovsky teaches Olimpiy Semenov to plow and checks the furrows.
recovery, Hero of Labor, five-year plan
Kirill Orlovsky, chairman of the Rassvet collective farm and an employee of the USSR state security agencies
Byelorussian SSR, Belarus




Collective farmers lead horses and cows harnessed to harrows through the fields.
Old men teach boys to plow.
A plow passes an abandoned German helmet.
A child with a cane follows the harrow.
recovery, village, five-year plan, everyday life
Byelorussian SSR, Belarus




A ruined house.
Collective farmers are building new houses next to dugouts and destroyed old houses.
A woman is peeling logs.
A device for cutting wood chips for the roof.
A boy is covering the roof beams with wood chips.
recovery, everyday life, village, USSR
Belarus, Byelorussian SSR




A boy takes clay from a dug hole.
The collective farmers make bricks and stack them to dry.
recovery, everyday life, village, village
Byelorussian SSR, Belarus