[„Вместе с реконструкцией и усилением основных транспортных магистралей восточного и южного направлений строительство большой группы новых железнодорожных и водных путей.]

• Main Authors: Troshin, Nikolaĭ, Ammosov, M. K. (Maksim Kirovich), 1897-1938, Ivliev, I.V., Popov, V.I., Khalatov, Art., 1896-1938, Государственное Транспортное Железнодорожное издательство
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Государственное Транспортное Железнодорожное издательство 1935
• Subjects: Railroad; taiga; Tundra
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Four views of surveyors and workers in various landscapes. Each image has a caption: Лагерь в тайге [= Camp in the taiga] -- Рубят „залом" на таежной реке Наушке для пропуска лодок [= They are cutting a “logjam” on the taiga river Naushka for boat passage] -- Прокладка трассы по косогору [= Laying a route along a slope] -- Взятие пробы грунта [= Taking a soil sample]. With descriptive text. A selection of the text translates (loosely) to: "Through swamps, tundra and taiga, through rocks and swift streams, along shifting sands, survey parties moved to different parts of the Union to prepare the route for new paths of the Second Five-Year Plan." Printed in color. О Железнодорожном Транспорте СССР : от шестого к VII съезду советов. Title translates to: About railway transport of the USSR from the Sixth to the Seventh Congress of Soviets. Slipcase bound in blue fabric with paste-on featuring the printed title. Includes cut-out, revealing embossed train on cover beneath. Published by Государственное Транспортное Железнодорожное издательство [= State Transport Railway Publishing House] in Moscow, 1935. In total, atlas includes three maps and numerous views and portraits. Luxuriously illustrated work. Issued to the VII All-Union Congress of Soviets. Put into production on December 10, 1934; issued on January 27, 1935. In an edition of 5000 copies, this copy includes a slip of paper indicating it is number 530. When reproducing the illustrations the following techniques were used: gravure printing, photographic technique, etching, lithography, three-color printing, gilding. The design and layout of the work, as well as many of the drawings within it, are by Russian avant-garde artist Nikolaĭ Troshin. The work is designed in the style of late Constructivism, and is distinguished by a large number of photo collages and photomontage. This work presents the achievements of the Soviet railway industry. It was designed to show what had evolved in all areas of railroad transport. Railways were given special attention, ...