Alexei Stakhanov, a coal miner in the Donbas region, then within the USSR, photograph by Eleazar Langman, circa 1935.
Stakhanov had far exceeded his work quota and was held up by the state as an example of productivity that everyone should emulate, a phenomenon known as the Stakhanovite movement.
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