Kirill Orlovsky's collective farm (1945-1950)

Footage №194796,

Reel №1

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Work in the forge.

Collective farm chairman Kirill Orlovsky.

Collective farmers are assembling a cart and repairing the harness.

Keywords

recovery, village, village, the first post-war years, USSR

Persons:

Kirill Orlovsky, chairman of the Rassvet collective farm and an employee of the USSR state security agencies

Shooting locations:

Byelorussian SSR, Belarus

Reel №2

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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.

Keywords

recovery, village, collective farm, USSR, everyday life, five-year plan

Persons:

Kirill Orlovsky, chairman of the Rassvet collective farm and an employee of the USSR state security agencies

Shooting locations:

Byelorussian SSR, Belarus

Reel №3

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K. Orlovsky teaches Olimpiy Semenov to plow and checks the furrows.

Keywords

recovery, Hero of Labor, five-year plan

Persons:

Kirill Orlovsky, chairman of the Rassvet collective farm and an employee of the USSR state security agencies

Shooting locations:

Byelorussian SSR, Belarus

Reel №4

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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.

Keywords

recovery, village, five-year plan, everyday life

Shooting locations:

Byelorussian SSR, Belarus

Reel №5

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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.

Keywords

recovery, everyday life, village, USSR

Shooting locations:

Belarus, Byelorussian SSR

Reel №6

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A boy takes clay from a dug hole.

The collective farmers make bricks and stack them to dry.

Keywords

recovery, everyday life, village, village

Shooting locations:

Byelorussian SSR, Belarus

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