Leningrad chronicles № 17 Special issue on the subject of the Leningrad economic Council (1959)

Towards the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

A column of tractors on the territory of the Vladimir Tractor Plant.

Transportation of the machine in the shop of one of the factories.

Setting up the machine.

Production processes in factory workshops, the work of automated lines.

Automation and mechanization - a wide road.

Internal views of one of the workshops of the Nevsky Machine-Building Plant.

Mechanic M. N. Veselkov is working at his desk on the drawings of his rational proposals.

Veselkov's face.

A self-propelled platform for moving large-sized parts from shop to shop, designed by Veselkov.

Setting the platform in motion by turning the handle of the reversing crane.

Moving large-sized parts on a self-propelled platform.

Workers are pushing an ordinary platform with a load.

The moulder of the foundry of the Kirov plant unloads the slag from the furnace, rams it with a pneumatic rammer.

A type of hydraulic press that automates the production of foundry molds, created by the innovators of the Kirov plant.

The faces of the moulder and the press operator.

The process of automated production of molds.

Transportation of the pressed semi-mold using a crane.

Sets of medical instruments made at the Krasnogvardeets plant.

The process of manual polishing of parts in one of the workshops of the plant.

Preparation of the polishing machine for operation, filling of porcelain and small steel balls into the polishing drum.

Loading parts for grinding into the drum.

Immersion of the drum in a soap solution.

Rotation of the drum in a soap solution.

Removing the drum from the soap solution.

The polished parts are poured out of the drum.

Samples of polished parts.

Type of electric relay.

Relay springs.

View of the workshop for the production of springs for relays at the Krasnaya Zarya plant, the production process.

Persons of design engineer A. A. Vargauzin and mechanic G. V. Mikhailov.

A type of semi-automatic for the manufacture of relay springs, designed by Vargauzin and Mikhailov.

Vargauzin and Mikhailov are testing a semi-automatic.

The process of manufacturing relay springs on a semi-automatic machine.

Production processes for the production of floss threads in the shop of the spinning and thread combine named after

Kirov.

Manual winding of threads.

The face of the innovator-mechanic A. P. Nazarov.

The work of the nodes and aggregates of the automatic reel for winding threads, invented by Nazarov.

The output of ready-made skeins of floss from the automatic stacking machine.

Packaging of skeins of floss in boxes.