From fishing villages in Vietnam and solar settlements in modern India to Soviet-era farms in central Russia — these women do their best, taking care of cows and chickens, planting gardens and harvesting crops, to provide food for the planet. Meet our amazing heroines in Sputnik's gallery.
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A vintage photo of a Soviet milkmaid from a kolkhoz in the central part of Russia near Kostroma, known for its cheese and milk farms.
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A Soviet-era shot with women looking after calves in Kostroma region, famous for its cheese production.
© Sputnik / Vitaliy Karpov
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Peasants celebrating the beginning of harvest time in west Poland two years after World War II had ended.
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A barefoot solar engineer at work in the Orissa solar village in India. The state government project trained 4 women from a remote tribal village to look after solar lighting in their place which had not seen electricity for over 15 years.
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The girl in this picture from 1935, helping to harvest oats, is one of 20,000 German women trained by the Nazi government in its women’s labor service. To battle unemployment, training camps for former stenographers, nurses, factory workers, students, and shop girls were created.
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A Koryak woman from an indigenous folk, which has inhabited the Russian Far East, north of the Kamchatka Peninsula, for centuries.
© Sputnik / Maria Vashuk
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A girl wearing a traditional costume of Russia's western Smolensk region. The photo was taken in the 1970-s.
© Sputnik / Rudolf Alfimov
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Iranian women carrying their belongings to be cleaned after a heavy sandstorm in Iran's southeastern province near the Afghan border.
© AFP 2023 / Behrouz Mehri
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A Russian girl herding cows across a river in central Russia.
© Sputnik / Alexey Kudenko
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An indigenous girl from Russia's mountainous Altai Republic in Siberia.
© Sputnik / Alexandr Kryazhev
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Girls at Midsummer celebration, held in Omsk region in Siberia.
© Sputnik / Alexey Malgavko
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A Vietnamese woman floating in a fishing boat.
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A pretty Banjaran from the so-called "Valley of God" in northern part of India at the Great Himalayan National Park.
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A Kyrgyz girl wearing a traditional costume during an ethnic festival in a village near one of the world's saltiest lakes, the Issyk-Kul.
© AFP 2023 / Vyacheslav Oseledko