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title: Collective Farmers Digging up Frozen Potatoes, 1933
author: Mark Nikitovich Zheleznyak
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/22322/collective-farmers-digging-up-frozen-potatoes-1933/
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updated: 2026-11-04
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# Collective Farmers Digging up Frozen Potatoes, 1933

_Authored by Mark Nikitovich Zheleznyak_

## Image File

[![Collective Farmers Digging up Frozen Potatoes, 1933](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/22322.png)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/22322.png)

## Image Caption

Farmers and children digging up frozen potatoes on a collective farm in the Donetsk region of Ukraine during the USSR's Great Famine of 1932-3. Photographed in 1933.

## Cite This Work

### APA
Zheleznyak, M. N. (2026, November 04). Collective Farmers Digging up Frozen Potatoes, 1933. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/22322/collective-farmers-digging-up-frozen-potatoes-1933/>
### Chicago
Zheleznyak, Mark Nikitovich. "Collective Farmers Digging up Frozen Potatoes, 1933." *World History Encyclopedia*, November 04, 2026. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/22322/collective-farmers-digging-up-frozen-potatoes-1933/>.
### MLA
Zheleznyak, Mark Nikitovich. "Collective Farmers Digging up Frozen Potatoes, 1933." *World History Encyclopedia*, 04 Nov 2026, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/22322/collective-farmers-digging-up-frozen-potatoes-1933/>.

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