Harvesting Grain in Soviet Buryat-Mongolia (Eastern Siberia).Collective farmers of Buryat-Mongolia operate a sheaf-binder in the harvest field.The Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is located to the West of Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia of the Soviet Union. Its vast territory reaches over 400,000 sq.km. Before the Great Proletarian Revolution it was a Tsarist colony, land of convict labor and exile. The oppressed people of Buryat-Mongolia did not even have their own schools. Now the country is developing its cultural and economic life. January 1, 1937. (Photo by Zelma).