Lumber and saw wood production in Soviet Union was a pretty huge thing. First because there was (and is!) a huge amount of natural resource for this, and the second is because of constant state of construction going around.
Also the foreign neighbor countries which lacked such endless woods on their territory so they had to buy the wood somewhere and Soviet state was exporting.
Arkhangelsk city was one of such centers for this industry, and those are the photos from back 1958 showing the scale of how much wood was prepared and handled.
The photos are clickable for the larger ones. Some of them were taken from the air trip around Arkhangelsk and the river Dvina.
Just look at it. This is all lumber and stacks of planks. Most of the ships around are foreign ships (you can read their titles in Latin letters – Russian ships had their titles usually in Cyrillics). Some fly the flags and we can see which countries sent their ships for the Russian wood.
Old fashioned cars used in the port to transport wood around.
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