Development of Kazakhstan (1927-1939)

Posters at the entrance to the propaganda yurt.

A flag with a red cross above the yurt.

Faces of adults and children listening to a radio broadcast.

A witch doctor "drives out" a disease from a girl's body with sticks.

Witch doctors perform rituals.

A doctor at a medical center gives advice to nomadic cattle breeders.

A cooperative corner in the "Red Yurt".

People choose newspapers and magazines.

Teams of excavators with entrenching tools under red banners go to build an irrigation canal.

Earthworks during the construction of a canal, faces of the workers.

View of the dug canal bed.

Opening the canal sluice gate.

A stream of water rushes into the dug channel.

Women scoop water from the canal with buckets.

Plowing the land with a caterpillar tractor, turtles next to the plow.

Checking the plowing depth.

Irrigation of crops, water in the canal bed.

Students in a yurt school, faces of the students.

A stream of water in the canal.

Digging crews go to build an irrigation canal, water flow in the canal bed.

People go to a ceremonial rally.

Faces of rally participants.