Moguchiy transport velikoy sovetskoy derzhavy – Vintage Wall Art
![Moguchiy transport velikoy sovetskoy derzhavy, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/16/16dbfe74db3c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Moguchiy transport velikoy sovetskoy derzhavy, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The caption translates roughly as "The mighty transport of the great Soviet state," a phrase that reads like official propaganda and frames the railway as a symbol of national power. The card's subject tracings point to industry and railroads, and the record gives no date or photographer. Railways were central to Soviet industrialization, carrying coal, steel, and grain across vast distances during the five-year plans of the 1930s. Images like this one were often made to promote that effort, so the scene probably shows freight and rail infrastructure presented as proof of economic strength. Viewers should read the title as the state's own message about itself.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind.--RR; RR. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,215 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146647 |
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