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USSR in Construction No. 3-4, 1935
Maker: State Fine Arts Press
Date Made: 1935-03
Country: Soviet Union
Materials: paper; ink; metal
Measurements: 11 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 41.91 cm
Cover page depicts a rippling body of water with mountains in the distance. The title is in blue in the bottom right. This double issue focuses on the development in the Soviet Union's "Far East" regions. Spreads include images of the towns of Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, and Komsomolsk, with short paragraphs highlighting improvements in railroad infrastructure, education, and town-factories, as well as the implementation of gold mines, fisheries, whaling, and deer horn exportation (to China and Japan). A large section is dedicate to the Jewish automonous region of Birobijan, highlighting their successes in quality of life, agriculture, theatre, and industry. The magazine puts a great deal of effort into separating them from the "Jews of the ghettos of Poland, Lithuania, White Russia", describing them as "shrinking, downtrodden". A section is dedicated to children and youths, highlighting education and pioneer camps, and even outlines the activities of a Korean school in Vladivostok.
Accession Number: 2020.016.013