Sujet

Colonists Khelgut and Iva with a Group of Russian Teachers, 1927. Creator: Unknown.

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Colonists Khelgut and Iva with a Group of Russian Teachers, 1927. The "Kuzbass" autonomous industrial colony was created in 1921. It was organized by American workers, who took on the obligation of inviting from the United States and Western Europe some eight thousand skilled workers and specialists to industrialize the Kuzbass. The Soviet government turned over to the colonists a number of Kemerovo mine shafts and an unfinished coking plant. To recruit volunteers to work in Siberia, a "Kuzbass Bureau" was opened in the middle of New York City, and an information bulletin began to be published in the United States. Between January 1922 and December 1923, however, only 566 persons arrived for work in the Kuzbass. The colonists included emigrants from America, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Australia, Jamaica, Indonesia, and other countries as well. Kemerovo Oblast Museum of Regional History and Folklife

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM24A12_320

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Droits gérés

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51,8Mo (2,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,9cm / 4960 x 3651 (300dpi)

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