Our region № 30 (1972)

The beginning of navigation in the Arkhangelsk port.

Melting ice on the Northern Dvina.

Tugs are pulling strings of rafts to Arkhangelsk.

A solemn meeting with the musical orchestra of the employees of the port of the first navigation vessel.

The captain of the timber carrier "Vaigach" is presented with a symbolic key to the port - the key to the "Forest Gate of the country".

The work of the Arkhangelsk port is loading logging onto logging trucks.

Logging in the Arkhangelsk region: cutting down trees, processing logs, loading onto trucks.

The Obelisk of the North in Arkhangelsk.

The inscription on the obelisk reads: "According to Lenin's testament, the forests of the North should give "up to half a billion foreign currency rubles a year in the near future."

Forests of Arkhangelsk.

Photos of the 20th-30th years of the 20th century.

Newsreel of the 30s: A diesel locomotive carries a team of lumberjacks to the plot.

The team is studying the schedule of the socialist competition at the stand.

The work of loggers on plots in the forest, using special equipment:felling and bagging machines, machines for cutting knots. jaw loaders of wood.

A diesel locomotive carries felled logs to a timber processing plant.

The settlement of the Lukovetsky forestry enterprise.

Construction of new multi-storey residential buildings and schools.

Work on wood processing machines.

Loading of wood onto ships by dockers.