Housing construction in Saratov

USSR. Saratov. December 29, 1975. Foreman Vasily Nikolayevich Poimtsev (third from left in the foreground), members of his integrated brigade of Construction and Assembly Department No. 32 of Trust No. 7 of Glavprivolzhskstroy, and Father Frost, who congratulated them on completing the annual task of constructing residential buildings ahead of schedule. V. N. Poimtsev's brigade, which worked according to the method of Nikolay Anatolyevich Zlobin, the initiator of brigade contracts in housing construction, with clear organization of work, daily summing up of the work of each brigade member, increased labor productivity by 1.5 percent and reduced unproductive expenses by 0.8 percent. Yuri Nabatov/TASS