Cost-effective management method (1989)

Agricultural machinery stored in an open area of a plant.

A grain winnower is operating while grain is loaded onto machines.

A combine harvester is collecting windrows and threshing grain.

An area for grazing cows.

A panoramic view of a field and a river.

The K. Marx Collective Farm in the Voronezh Region.

The board of the collective farm.

Harvesting sunflowers.

Cows on a farm.

Agricultural machinery of the collective farm in an open parking lot.

A herd of cows grazing.

An apple orchard.

Houses of collective farmers.

A collective farm pond.

A club.

A shop.

A canteen.

A library.

A reading room at the library. O. G. Lipendin, the chairman of the collective farm.

The chairman and the driver are inspecting the combine harvester.

A sunflower.

The chairman is consulting colleagues from other farms.

A panoramic view of the collective farm fields.

Specialists are inspecting the sunflower.

The chairman tells the guests about the achievements of the collective farm. O. G. Lipendin talks about methods for reducing costs in the production of agricultural products on his collective farm. M.N. Mitin, head of a dairy farm.

Calves on the farm.

Mitin feeds a calf from a bottle.

Regulations on business accounting at a collective farm division.

A milkmaid milks cows. M.N. Mitin signs a waybill for a milk tanker driver.

The milk tanker picks up milk from the farm. O.G. Lipendin talks about calculating intra-farm prices for the collective farm’s products.

Footage from different farms on the farm.

Standard prices have been calculated for each.

Calves on the farm.

Harvesting equipment in the collective farm’s field. O.G. Lipendin explains how expenses affect the profits of collective farm divisions.

A machine is filled with gasoline.

Electrical distribution unit.

Water tower.

Agricultural machinery repair shop. M.N. Mitin takes readings from devices to calculate expenses.

Equipment maintenance and repair.

Meeting to address current issues on the farm.

Summing up the farm workers’ work for the month.

Wheat field.

Sunflower field.

Harvesting. O.G. Lipendin talks about how a lease contract works on a collective farm.

Family pig farm.

Methodological developments on rental contracts used by O.G. Lipendin.