North Caucasus Number 3

Blasting operations during the blocking of the Terek river at the construction of the irrigation and watering Tersko-Kumsky canal. An earthen rampart blocking the Terek River after the explosion. Reinforced concrete dam of the head structure. The badge of the counter of the All-Union Population Census of the USSR in 1959. Census enumerators fill in the census forms of residents of Nalchik, a mountain village, a village of the state farm "Golden Fleece". City Grozniy. Building, workshop for the production of synthetic alcohol from natural gas at a chemical plant. Operators at the control panel for automatic gas processing in the central control room. The employees of the chemical laboratory analyze the obtained alcohol. The city of Kislovodsk. Alpine Astronomical Observatory. Senior Researcher R.S. Gnevysheva at the telescope. Laboratory staff examine the negatives of photographing in the first hours of the flight of the Soviet space rocket.

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1959