The V. I. Lenin Volga-Don shipping canal [title page] / The Volga-Don canal [cover title]
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953. 38p. + numerous unpaginated photogravure illustrations (half- & full-page) throughout the text, and a folded diagrammatic map; 8.25x5.75 inch staplebound textblock with pasted-on pictorial wraps. Spine chipped at tail, wraps lightly worn else good condition.
Construction pix, completed work, shipping, dams, nearby agricultural scenes (including classic Soviet tractor), housing tracts developed for the construction workers,
Cat.No: 95073
Price: $18.00
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1950S,
Agriculture,
Engineering,
Maritime, Nautical,
Rivers,
Soviet Union,
Transportation
See all items by V. D. Galaktionov, chief geologist of the Volga-Don canal