The Development of the Hungry Steppe (1960-1961)

Excavator on the construction of the irrigation canal.

The face of the machinist of the excavator.

Releasing the bucket from the ground.

General view of the part of the construction of the irrigation canal (from above).

Delivery of equipment and pipes for water.

A girl-surveyor at work, a bulldozer tows a digger.

Earthmoving machinery and mechanisms for the construction of irrigation canals.

The motorcade is moving across the steppe, the face of one of the drivers.

View of the wheel of a moving truck.

The driver clings a tow rope.

Various techniques for the construction of the canal.

Engineers and construction supervisors discuss production issues, the faces of engineers.

Workers-drillers are setting up a drilling rig for water extraction, installation work.

A jet of water beats up.

Types of the part of the Hungry Steppe before the construction of hydraulic structures.

Cracked earth.

Newspaper publications in 1956 on the development of virgin lands beginning irrigation of the Hungry Steppe.

Arrival of people in the Hungry Steppe.

The echelon is moving with agricultural machinery.

Installation of tents in the steppe.

Kind of one of the first tent camps.

People fortify their tents during a sandstorm.

Surveyors at work.

Type of plowed fields (from above).

Tractors and harvesters are going to harvest cotton.

Faces of tractor drivers.

Disclosure of the "box" of cotton (animation).

Kind of ripe cotton grown in the Hungry Steppe.

Water in the irrigation canal.

Tractors drink water from mugs and flasks.

Tractors tow cotton harvesters.

Plowing the field.

The agronomist and the chairman of one of the collective farms are discussing the issues of planting.