Non-Black Earth Region regardless of the weather (1975)

Ravine.

Dry riverbed.

Natural landscapes of Chuvashia after drought.

Speaking at a seminar for collective farm managers I.G. Grigoriev, chairman of the Druzhba collective farm in the Urmarsky district of Chuvashia.

A seeder moves across a field.

The farm buildings of the collective farm are shown.

A silo is unloaded.

Feeders for cows on the territory of a livestock complex.

Although there are no rivers or lakes on the territory of the collective farm, the farm collects and stores spring water from melted snow.

The farm uses it to water the fields for forage crops.

A welder welds pipes for irrigation.

The management of the collective farm and the state commission inspect the irrigated fields.

Representatives of the commission sign the act of acceptance of irrigated lands.

Operation of sprinkler systems.

Panorama of the collective farm fields.

Fodder beets grown in irrigated fields.

Fields with other forage crops.

An irrigation system against the background of village houses.

An artificial reservoir and a pipe taking water to the fields.

Flowers on the bank of the reservoir.

The chairman talks to a collective farm worker.

Combines leave to harvest.

The chairman talks to machine operators.

A combine harvests a field.

A combine unloads harvested grain onto a vehicle.

A rowan branch.

Ducklings run across a clearing.

A bee collects honey.

An apiary.

The chairman of the collective farm takes care of bees.

Photos of the chairman in 1945. Children play in the streets of the collective farm estate.

An agricultural aviation plane takes off.

The plane spreads fertilizers over the farm's fields.

Watering machines in the fields.

An artificial pond of the collective farm, waterfowl take off above it.