Irrigation in the Trans-Volga (1961)

View of the Volga steppes.

Panorama of a wheat field.

View of one of the irrigation reservoirs.

Panorama of Tolstoy's reservoir.

Panorama of the irrigation facilities of the farm "Komsomolets".

View of one of the irrigation channels running between fields.

Overlapping channel portable canvas jumper.

Woman irrigator strengthens the jumper.

Water flows through the bed of the channel.

Ears of ripening wheat.

Listeners of the regional workshop for hydro in irrigated field inspecting ears of corn next harvest.

Examination of the ears of wheat, growing on dry land.

Seminar participants visiting the new technique of irrigated agriculture.

Inspection planner, designed for leveling fields before irrigation of the trencher.

Participant in the seminar of V. I. Mashtakov tells colleagues about their experience of irrigation.

Demonstration of new irrigation techniques.

Collective hydraulics A. I. Ermakova on the shore of an irrigation pond tells the participants about the possibilities of water in the transformation of the climate.

Children bathe in the pond.

The types of fish ponds.

The face of an old farmer I. S. Chicherova.

The faces of the farmers and irrigators.

Chicherov talks about the alteration of the landscape after irrigation systems (synchronously).

View of the shelterbelts.

Panorama of corn fields with seedlings.

Master green squares F. e Kulik is at the helm of the tractor.

New earthmoving equipment in the construction of irrigation systems, the work of the trencher KM-800.

The process of digging ditches.

Laying of irrigation furrows with tiller.

Laying of temporary irrigation canals with the help of special machines.

Panorama of the area near the irrigation canal.

Compaction of the soil at the permanent irrigation canal.

View of the temporary irrigation canal.

View of the floating pump station to supply water from the river in sovkhoz Pugachevskiy.

Internal view of the station.

The process of pumping water.

A worker opens the valve.

The water rushes into the channel irrigation canal.

View of irrigation canal supplying water to the plantation.

Panorama of the newly planted orchard.

The field crew on weeding the tomatoes.

The face of the foreman Frolova.

Members of the team at work.

Works of irrigation equipment.

Irrigation areas using delestraint machine.

Panorama dual console sprinkler unit.

Sprinkler work.

Harvesters go into the field, combine the helm.

View of the irrigation canal.