Achievements of Soviet Kazakhstan (1939-1940)

A Kazakh riding a camel.

Delegates of one of the congresses of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in the meeting room.

Copper ore being transported from a mine by rail.

A female dispatcher at the control panel of the trolleys.

An interior view of part of the factory shop, the flotation production process.

The shop foreman, the leader Tampiev, walks past the operating units, checking their operation.

The shop foreman Mukushev at work.

An interior view of part of the shop and operating machines (from above).

Views of an industrial enterprise for the enrichment of copper ore.

Steppe landscape.

Milking a cow, milk pouring into a milk pail.

Harvesting wheat with combines.

Harvesting various crops, vegetables and fruits in collective farms of the Kazakh SSR. A girl's face.

Panorama of a folk celebration in honor of high harvest results in one of the collective farms of the Merkensky district of Kazakhstan.

Horse races during a collective farm festival, people applaud the winners.

Preparing treats for a festive celebration on a collective farm.

An orchestra of Kazakh folk instruments performs for collective farmers.

Girls carry trays with treats and samovars during a folk celebration.

Musicians play dombras during a celebration.

An orchestra performs for collective farmers.

A dancer performs, faces of the audience.

A singer performs Kazakh folk songs accompanied by an orchestra of string instruments, the audience applauds.

A horseman rides out with a dombra in his hands, begins to play and sing, people listen to his performance.

View of one of the squares in Almaty.

Flower seller at a street kiosk.

A man buys a bouquet of flowers, sniffs it and gives it to a girl playing by the fountain, view of the fountain.

Participants of the festive procession pass by, faces of spectators.

The doors of the school open, children with school bags run out into the street.

View of part of the school building.

Faces of students of the Kazakh State University named after Kirov.

A sign with the name at the entrance to the university building.

View of the university building.

Streets of Almaty in the evening, cars drive by.

People go to the theater.

Car traffic on one of the city streets in the evening.

Construction of an irrigation canal.

Collective farmers are harvesting.

Threshing grain on a collective farm threshing floor.

Agronomists and the chairman of the collective farm check the quality of the grain of the new harvest.

Harvesting grain using a combine.

The face of a combine operator.

Grain pours out of the combine sleeve.

A combine operator at the controls.

View of a field during harvesting.

Grain in a combine bunker.

Collective farmers work at a grain threshing floor.

Views of streets and squares in Alma-Ata.

A bus is driving along the street.

Passengers in the bus.

Trams on city streets.