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)

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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)