Child Care in Soviet Russia (1922-1924)

View of part of the camp for refugees and migrants from places in the Volga region where there was a crop failure.

A queue for boiling water.

People collect boiling water in cans and buckets.

People on the pier near the ship that delivered aid to the starving.

Employees of the American mission near the map of the Volga region.

Children stand near a truck with American products.

Unloading grain at the port.

Weighing sacks of grain.

Panorama of the square in front of the train station in one of the district towns of Russia, trading on the square.

People in the square are sitting by the fire.

A homeless boy at the market.

A woman with a child in her arms.

The building of an Orthodox church, adapted for a liquor store.

Destruction of one of the Orthodox churches.

View of part of a food warehouse, a truck on the territory of the warehouse.

A boy emaciated from hunger, delivered to a children's institution.

Pupils of the orphanage, who lost their parents due to hunger, eat soup from saucepans.

A doctor conducts a medical examination of a boy with a stomach swollen from hunger.

Examination of children in a hospital ward.

Children wash with soap at a washstand, brush their teeth.

View of the orphanage building, children work in the garden beds.

A doctor examines a girl in the presence of her mother.

Pharmacists prepare medicine.

Adults outside with children in their arms.

A doctor conducts a medical examination of children.

Children from the orphanage sit naked on the terrace.

Children during physical education and drawing classes.

Children during lunch.

The person on duty pours compote into mugs.

The people on duty pour soup and hand out bread.

The kids eat soup.

A child in rags sits by the gate outside.

An employee of the orphanage comes up to him, picks him up and carries him away.

The boy eats, sitting on a hospital bed.

Children in a hospital ward, a nurse stands by one of the beds.

A nurse cuts the hair of a young street child admitted to the orphanage, nannies wash the boy in a galvanized bath.

A doctor conducts a medical examination of a beaten boy.

American mission staff distribute clothes to children at an orphanage.

A teacher at an orphanage plays with children.

The kids look at pictures in a book.

Children at an orphanage hold a banner in their hands and go out to demonstrate.

Children and their teachers go on a tour of Moscow streets in a cart, waving flags.

Children at an orphanage go down the steps for a walk.

Children go on a tour in a cart, holding a banner with a slogan.

A pioneer squad passes by.

Children at a kindergarten play outside in winter.

The faces of the kids.