It is quite symbolic that the exhibition devoted to the International Women’s Day (IWD) was under Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa), the landmark Soviet sculpture. Moreover, March 8, 2013, marked 100th anniversary of the first IWD in Russia.
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![Ilya Makarychev - 'Don't stay in your kitchen...', 1920s. In the upper left corner: Every female cook [kukharka] has to learn how to govern the state (Lenin). In the lower right corner: Don't stay in your kitchen, join the election in a Soviet [council]. A female worker used to be ignorant, now she resolves matters in the Soviet.](https://russianuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/32.jpg?w=209&h=209&crop=1 "Ilya Makarychev - 'Don't stay in your kitchen...', 1920s. In the upper left corner: Every female cook [kukharka] has to learn how to govern the state (Lenin). In the lower right corner: Don't stay in your kitchen, join the election in a Soviet [council]. A female worker used to be ignorant, now she resolves matters in the Soviet.")
![Valentina Kulagina - Female udarniks, join the AUCPB (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)). [Udarnik means a worker who overfulfilled the plan. Udarnitsa - a female worker].](https://russianuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/45.jpg?w=209&h=209&crop=1 "Valentina Kulagina - Female udarniks, join the AUCPB (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)). [Udarnik means a worker who overfulfilled the plan. Udarnitsa - a female worker].")
!['Then and Now' by the Professional Lacemaker School in Yelets city, 1933. The title says: Kolkhoz (a Soviet collective farm) [upper right corner]; Then and Now.](https://russianuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/12.jpg?w=209&h=209&crop=1 "'Then and Now' by the Professional Lacemaker School in Yelets city, 1933. The title says: Kolkhoz (a Soviet collective farm) [upper right corner]; Then and Now.")
![Alexander Deyneka - The Reconstuction of Rostselmash, the late 1940s. [Rostselmash - Soviet/Russian agricultural equipment company].](https://russianuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/16.jpg?w=209&h=209&crop=1 "Alexander Deyneka - The Reconstuction of Rostselmash, the late 1940s. [Rostselmash - Soviet/Russian agricultural equipment company].")
