Restoration of the USSR economy destroyed by the war (1943-1947)

The first melt in the Kirov Plant workshop after renovations.

A worker attaches a memorial plaque to the wall of the building.

The plaque reads, "The workshop was destroyed by the German invaders.

Rebuilt by the Kirov Plant team.

The first melt was made on April 16, 1945."

A ruined village.

Horses pull a cart loaded with logs.

Villagers are building a house.

A plow tills the ground, where a German helmet lies.

Peasants scatter seeds.

In one of the Asian republics, women work a seed drill.

Oxen pull a plow.

Trains with equipment and machines are moving.

A turbogenerator for the Dnieper hydroelectric power station is being assembled at a Leningrad plant.

Residents of a Central Asian republic are collecting clothes, blankets, and other supplies for war-torn regions.

A young boy helps Kasatkina, a collective farmer, load vegetables onto a cart.

A woman and children are riding carts laden with vegetables to help war victims.

A train with a portrait of Stalin on its locomotive moves along.

People greet the first trainload of coal from Donbas.

On one of the Kremlin towers, a man measures a star for repairs.

Soldiers repair and clean the domes of cathedrals.

Boys in cadet uniforms walk down the street.

People on the streets of Moscow.

A kiosk selling kvass.

Cars and a tram move along the roadway – shot from above.

A Soviet soldier and his family enter a field, pick up a scythe, and mow.

A line of mowers in a wheat field (wide shot).

People are mowing the grass.

Demobilized soldiers restart the machines.

A steel shop at a destroyed plant.

A scrap metal collection point.

A worker crosses out the word "scrap" and writes "repair."

People are sorting through piles of scrap metal in the workshop.

They're repairing machinery.

German helmets and vehicle parts are found in the pile of scrap metal.

Soldiers are sawing up a German tank for scrap metal.

Boys are watching the process.

A train with tractors is moving.

Bicycles and samovars are being made.

The first post-war steam locomotive, "Pobeda," is passing.

A "Pobeda" car is on display.