Construction of the Fergana Canal (1939-1940)

The old farmer goes to waterless area.

The old man leans raises lump of earth.

Lump of earth crumbles in your hand.

The old man looks like crumbles land out of his hand.

Old man's face.

Bunch of grapes.

Child eating watermelon.

Children run towards the plane landed.

People run up to the plane.

From the plane unloaded a pile of newspapers, pilot talking with people.

Issue of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

The teacher gives children the newspaper.

Boy riding a donkey by workers digging the canal.

Girl gives newspaper builders channel.

People bathe in the newly dug channel section.

Builders during a break make industrial gymnastics.

The instructor shows exercises.

People repeat the exercise for the instructor.

People end up exercise and again set to work.

People blow into long pipes.

Workers break ground hoe.

People take out the ground on a stretcher.

People dig the canal with shovels and pickaxes.

A team of one of the Uzbek farm workers coming to help the neighboring plot to build a canal, people carry slogans and banners.

People walk on the sides of the trench.

A team of collective farmers came to the rescue workers of one of the construction sites.