Happy Holidays!

Hi, all.  I'm taking a break for the holidays and won't be posting regularly until 2013.

Hope you have a wonderful and happy time of it.

Constructing Lake Komsomol

Nikolai Karakhan: Constructing Lake Komsomol (late 1930s-early 1940s)

[about this painting]

Fedor Reshetnikov

 Home for the Holidays (1948)

Peace (1950)

Threshing

Yuri Podlyaski: Wheat Threshing (1948)

Fisherman and Sick Son

Andrei Andreevich Tutunov: Fisherman and his Sick Son (1964)

The Bridge Builders

Dmitri Zhilinski: The Bridge Builders (study) (1959)

Reading by the Oven

Oksana Dmitrievna Sokolovskaya: Reading by the Oven (1961)

Mother and Daughter Bathing

Vitaly Tikhov: Mother and Daughter Bathing (1929)

The Operator

Marat Semenovich Shanin: Telephone Operator from the Factory Switchboard (1958)

Greeting the First Cosmonaut

Mikhail Khmelko: The Greeting of the First Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, on his Return to Earth (1962)

Albert Anni

Albert Anni was an Estonian painter during the Soviet era.

 November Lake (ca. 1960)

 Summer Bouquet

Alexei Pavlovich Belykh

 Lastochkina, the Milkmaid from Sverdlova (1959)

 Winter Fairy Tale (1963)

Winter at Peak (1963)

Sevastopol Fishermen

Lyubov Ivanovna Kachalina: Sevastopol Fishermen (1960)

Still Life with Bread

Vladimir Stozharov: Still Life with Bread (1959)

Morning at Gurzuf

Petr Ivanovich Kostinski: Morning at Gurzuf (1958)

Salvage Cranes

Shota Ambakovich Zamtaradze: Salvage Cranes at the Port of Odessa (1956)

Lenin at the KomSoMol Convention

Aleksandr Lomykin: Lenin at the Third KomSoMol Convention (1969)

Musical Interlude

Leonid Georgievich Filatov: Musical Interlude (1956)

In the New House

Nikolai Fedorovich Novikov: In the New House (1961)

Toys

Pavel Kuznetsov: Toys (1960)

Answering the KomSoMol's Call

Isaak Iosifovich Tartakovski: Answering the KomSoMol's Call 

(Reconstruction in the Donbass) (1952)

Vacation Break

I'll be on vacation until next Monday, when posting will resume.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Richard

Konstantin Mefodevich Maksimov

 A Warrior of the Chinese Revolution (1955)

 

 Russian Still-life in Winter (1978)

Sashka the Tractor Driver in Virgin Lands (study) (1954)

Valentina Savelieva

 Celebration (1970)

 Enisey River (1965)

 Family (1974)

 Morning (1974)

 Uzbek Singer (1961)

Women from Mar'in Posad (1965)

At the Airport

Boris Pavlovich Shvarkov: At the Airport (1964)

April in Muftuga

Vladimir Fedorovich Stozharov: April in the Village of Muftuga (1967)

Still Life with Medals

Anatoli Yurevich Nikich-krilichevski: Still-life with the Medals of M. Isaakova (1951)

[about this painting]

Milkmaids

Pavel Fedorovich Shardakov: Milkmaids, City of Volgograd (1967)

Engels Kozlov

Engels Kozlov (1926-2007) was a Soviet painter granted the title of "People's Artist of Russia."

 Baking Bread (1967)

[about this painting]

 Coal Mine at Inta (1963)

 Golden Autumn: Lady with Red Hat (1962)

Portrait of Aleksei Vladimirovich Kosov, Coal Miner at Mine No. 5, City of Inta (1963)

Aleksandr Georgievich Gulyaev

 Nomad's Tent, Virgin Lands (1955)

 Raisa Mittailovna Nevor, Golden Grainfield in the Virgin Lands (1955)

[this heroine of Soviet labor seems a mite...grumpy]

 The Nursing Mother (1970)

 Waiting for the Mail in the Virgin Lands (1957)

Winter in the Village (1966)

Nikolai Terpsikhorov

My Wife Nadya (1944)

 Ladies Walking Along a Country Road

 River Kama, A Tributary of the Volga (1950)

The Snows Have Started To Thaw: Early Spring (1946)

Turkmenian Weavers (1935)