2 views of Russian shipyard workers in Leningrad

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Leningrad, unknown, 1925

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ca1925 two photographs 9”x6.5” of Russian shipyard workers, one with their families. Both are mounted on very rough photo mount card - the larger group’s is whole 12”x9.5” and the smaller has been trimmed. The caption in the negative reads, in Cyrillic, (smaller group) “The best employees of the ship repair artel [cooperative association] of the Kanonersky branch plant in Leningrad.” (larger group) “A group of members of the ship repair artel of the Kanonersky branch plant in Leningrad.” The Kanonersky Shiprepair Shops were established in 1883 on Kanonersky Island where there was a private Metal Workshop established in 1879 to maintain and repair the dredging fleet used on the construction of the Sea Canal begun in 1874. Beginning in 1909 the small workshops and barracks were much enlarged. From 1922 to 1925 there was considerable growth due to the constant maintenance of the icebreaker fleet, and more ships in port altogether. These photos are from that period, when St. Petersburg that had become known as Petrograd (1914-1924) was renamed Leningrad.