Restoration of animal husbandry in the USSR after the Great Patriotic War (1945-1947)

People ride carts loaded with provisions and herds of sheep down the street of a Siberian village.

Women in traditional Kazakh, Uzbek, and Kyrgyz costumes wave their hands.

Flocks of sheep and goats are led out of the village.

A line of animals is driven across a mountain pass.

The animals are being driven to war-torn regions of the USSR.

Shepherds drive a flock of sheep across a mountain river.

A herd of cows is walking across the steppe.

A line of cows passes by.

Cows graze in the valley.

Women milk the cows.

Herds of cows and sheep are being driven to war-torn regions.

The animals walk past devastation and wrecked military equipment.

Villagers watch the herds pass.

A herd of animals walks down a village street past newly rebuilt houses.

A woman holding a child and men watch the herd.

An old man shakes hands with a shepherd.

A child is among the sheep.

People with flowers greet the approaching train.

Animals—piglets, lambs, goats, young cows—are handed out from the carriages to those greeting the train.

People take the animals back to their farms.

People with adopted pets are walking through the village, surrounded by children.

A calf in a cage is being unloaded from a cart.

A woman is feeding the calf.

A milkmaid is leading a cow to the bathhouse.

Milkmaids are washing the cow.

The women wash the piglet in a basin and hug the clean piglet.

Livestock breeder Praskovya Malinina talks with guests of the collective farm.

Specialists examine a breeding cow.

Malinina shows off the collective farm's cows.