fashionable photo studio on sovetskaya street in minsk, at the beginning of 1939, photographer elya bergmanng himself in order in front of the mirror, what had to be done. march's songs, and of course, the setting, the old surroundings clearly did not correspond to the spirit of the times, now portraits of peasant women and factory workers are in fashion, let them become famous. the lines of the popular song by isaac dunaevsky, which the whole country sang without exaggeration in the thirties, personified the image of a soviet girl, a woman, free, liberated, beijing spring, a girl in red scarf, first demonstration, the main thing is to find a decent place for them and arrange them so that they create the right atmosphere. and the arable land is all our dear and dear home, let the new day, the day of yesterday, with their cheerful joyful ones, they are the builders of a new society, the masters of this life, then few people thought about the fact that for such drastic changes it took only about 20 years, how about about how difficult the path to solving the women's issue in the country was.