A tall Soviet advisor in a brown coat gives instructions to Chinese working on the construction of a floodgate. His name of the Russian expert 'Bukefu' is Bukov. He was present at the construction of the Sanhe floodgate, regulating the water level of Hongze Lake, which acts as a reservoir for the Huai river.
A poster in the 1952 series The great project to harness the Huai River has a contemporary photograph of Bukov at work.
The impressum qualifies designer Lin Chuan as second-year student at Shandong University, Fine Arts Department (山东大学艺术系美术组).