Consequences of famine and devastation in Soviet Russia (1922)

Faces of starving children waiting for a hospital train at Melekes station during the famine of 1922. Exhausted children sit on the platform.

Half-naked children sit on the rails waiting for the train.

Faces of children exhausted by hunger.

A boy lies on a wooden platform and eats wood chips.

An abandoned small child cries.

A worker at a machine tool.

Factory chimneys smoke.

The production process in the foundry of a metallurgical plant.

People put out a burning peat bog.

Industrial landscape (top).

A peasant prepares a plough for plowing.

Children pass by with pots in their hands.

A woman sits on the rails and eats soup from a bowl.

People eat soup while sitting on the rails.

A woman with a child exhausted from hunger in her arms.

Faces of starving people.

Distribution of bread to the starving.

A poster on the wall of a carriage of an agitation train.

View of part of the destroyed factory buildings.