Domestic newsreels of the 1930s (1931-1939)

Participants in the ceremonial meeting of Leningrad youth in the foyer of the Uritsky (Tavrichesky) Palace before the meeting.

Representatives of Leningrad youth in the hall of the Uritsky Palace.

Faces of the event participants.

First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Zhdanov A.A. greets the meeting participants.

A Komsomol member attaches a bouquet of flowers to Zhdanov’s jacket, Zhdanov applauds those gathered in the hall.

A participant in the meeting applauds.

Young Pioneers present Zhdanov with bouquets of flowers.

Zhdanov shakes the Young Pioneer’s hand in return.

Participants in the meeting of Leningrad youth dance in the hall.

The interiors of the Fashion House, opened in Moscow on Sretenka.

Models of new women’s dresses on a rotating demonstration hanger.

Fashion designers working on new styles of women’s clothing.

Inspection of a new model of women’s overalls.

Faces of the spectators during the fashion show.

Demonstration of a women’s transformable suit, transformation of a business suit into a summer one.

Another model demonstrates a dress of a new style.

View of a part of the auditorium.

Participants of the show discuss the demonstrated models.

Models demonstrate dresses of new styles.

Boxers of the "Dynamo" society jump rope during training.

Boxer Harry Epstein conducts training.

Boxers training with a jump rope.

Boxers training with punching bags, Epstein conducts a lesson in fighting techniques, demonstrates his techniques, "sets a punch".

Boxers in the ring during training.

Boxers during training sparring.

The identical motor ships "Iosif Stalin" and "Vyacheslav Molotov" before the start of the first voyage along the Moscow Canal on April 20, 1937. The corridor of one of the motor ships.

The interiors of the passenger saloon-lounge.

The interior of one of the cabins.

The motor ship "Ivan Moskvin" departs from the pier.

Ships in the fairway.

The motor ship "Iosif Stalin" and other passenger ships are sailing along the Moscow Canal.

Flags of coloring against the background of the central part of the Northern River Terminal building.

People on the balcony of the river terminal building, a view of one of the motor ships.

People on one of the berths of the Northern River Terminal wave their hands to the departing ships.

Views of the ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the opening of navigation along the Moscow Canal (from above).

Farewell at the station for Moscow Komsomol girls leaving to work in the Far East.

Girls at the carriages say goodbye to their families and friends.

The face of an elderly Women.

Faces of girls outside the train window.

Relatives and friends of the girls wave goodbye.

The passenger train sets off.

Sailors of the merchant navy of Republican Spain wave from the deck of a ship that has arrived in the USSR. Unloading boxes of oranges from a Spanish ship using a port crane.

View of the government dacha in Gorki.

French writer Romain Rolland and Gorky A.M. during a meeting in Gorki on July 16, 1935. Gorky and Rolland talk to each other, walk between the flowerbeds.

View of part of the transoceanic liner "Normandie" leaving on its maiden voyage from Le Havre on May 29, 1935. Spectators look at the liner. "Normandie" at the pier, panorama of the liner's side.

Faces of the members of the Soviet delegation on board the liner.

Tugboats take the liner out of the port waters.

View of part of a wheat field of one of the Crimean collective farms.

Ears of ripe wheat.

Faces of girls from the "Udarnik" collective farm working on the harvest.

Horse-drawn reapers at the harvest, girls tie sheaves.

Women sweep the harvested grain into haystacks.

View of a vessel - a floating pioneer camp created in the Astrakhan region.

Pioneers fishing with rods.

Pioneers sunbathing naked on a sandy beach.

Pioneers with lifebuoys board boats on the shore.

Buglers and drummers give a signal.

Pioneers run along the deck to the ceremonial line-up.

Pioneers, lined up in one row, enter the water on command to swim.

Boat competitions.

Pioneers swimming in the Volga.

A float on the water.

A pioneer pulls out a fish caught on a rod.

Pioneers swim, wearing lifebuoys.

A pioneer takes a fish off the hook.

Rowing competitions.

A pioneer, sitting on the stern of a boat, plays the accordion, faces of pioneers sitting on the oars.

Pioneers dance in a circle in a meadow around a fire.

Views of the entrance to the Gorky Park of Culture and Leisure in Moscow (from above).

Statues at the entrance to the park.

The Ferris wheel is spinning.

Pleasure boats at the pier.

View of the night carnival held in the park.

Carnival participants put on masks.

Faces of carnival participants in masks.

Views of the carnival.

The procession of carnival participants and festive fireworks.

Fishermen unload the catch from the nets.

The production process at the cannery.

Automatic labeling of cans.

The automated process of filling bottles with milk at the dairy.

Automated production processes in the workshop of the bakery.

Fresh bread on the conveyor belt.

Automatic transportation of freshly baked bread.

Transportation of meat-packing plant products to refrigerators.

Finished products of one of the meat-packing plants.

Harvesting grapes.

Newly harvested grapes under an automatic press.

Filling bottles with young wine.

Wine barrels in storage.

Products of one of the wineries.

Wrapping a bottle in wrapping paper.

Panorama of grocery store counters, sellers at work.

Sausages on the counter.

Sellers serve customers in one of the departments of the grocery store.

People are leaving the store.

The doorman at the door.

Crystal products in the store window.

Demonstration of a new women's coat on a rotating mannequin.

A salesperson in a clothing store offers goods to a customer.

Trying on goods in the women's shoe department.

Customers choose cologne.

A salesperson in the fabric department sells goods to customers.

Packing fabric into a box.

Sale of watches in one of the departments of a department store.

A man examines a pocket watch he has purchased.

Customers in the costume jewelry department.

A saleswoman demonstrates beads.

Women try on jewelry.

A salesperson helps a girl try on a fur coat.

Assortment of the fur department.

A customer tries on a gorget.

A salesperson in one of the rural stores measures out fabric for a customer.

Fabric colors.

Village women examine goods.

Trying on children's shoes.

Customers listen to a gramophone in a music store.

A salesperson hands a boy a box of new shoes.

Signs with the names of departments of a department store.

A salesperson helps a woman try on a coat.

Sale of meat grinders in the hardware department.

Aluminum cookware on the shelves, an assortment of kitchenware (panorama).

A boy's face.

A salesperson in the toy department hands a boy a horse on a stick.

Children's faces.

Children examine a toy horse.

A salesperson in the horse harness department.

Children's faces.

Train arrival at the station.

Meeting foreign guests at the entrance to the station building.

Faces of arriving guests.

Passengers are sitting in a car, the car starts moving.

Demolition of an old building on the site of the future Mossovet Hotel (Moscow Hotel).

A banner on a fence with an inscription about the construction of a hotel.

The process of dismantling a building.

Asphalt being laid by rollers on one of Moscow's streets.

Workers dismantle a cobblestone pavement on Sverdlov Square.

Rollers laying asphalt on Arbatskaya Square.

Panorama of the Verkhne-Isetsky Kabakov Plant.

The process of producing transformer steel in one of the plant's shops.

Production processes in the steelmaking shop of the plant, issuing the next heat.

The process of primary steel processing.

Views of Leningrad.

Entrance to the building of the Leningrad branch of the Tolmachev Military-Political Academy of the Red Army.

A sign with the name of the academy.

Head of the academy, Army Commissar of the 2nd rank B.M. Ippo reports to Commander of the Leningrad Military District I.P. Belov during a ceremonial event to mark the academy's 15th anniversary.

Academy personnel marching along one of Leningrad's embankments.

Parade of academy personnel, Belov on the podium greeting academy students passing by.

Academy students during classes and lectures.

A lesson on studying the material part of an aircraft.

Students in the classroom during self-study.

Ceremonial formation of the academy personnel on the day of its 15th anniversary.

Academy students march in parade formation in front of the command of the Leningrad Military District.

Mountain landscape in Georgia.

Leningrad pioneers, awarded a trip around the USSR, descend the stairs to Borjomi.

Dimitrov G.M., vacationing in Borjomi, greets the pioneers.

The pioneers, standing on the porch of the sanatorium, salute Dimitrov.

The faces of the pioneers.

Dimitrov talks to the pioneers.

Mountain landscape.

Dimitrov walks with the pioneers in the vicinity of the sanatorium.

View of the sanatorium building.

Views of the city blocks and streets of Ivanovo (from above).

A bus on one of the streets of Ivanovo.

View of the street through the windshield of the car.

Views of the streets, new factory buildings and residential buildings in Ivanovo.

A janitor sweeps the asphalt.

A monument to Lenin in Ivanovo.

View of part of the building of the Ivanovo City Council.

View of part of the building of the Chemistry Department.

View of the construction of the new theater building.

The circus building in Ivanovo.

Views of city streets.

New residential building.

Komsomol member and textile worker Chernysheva speaks on the phone at home.

A tram on the streets of Ivanovo.

View from the tram driver's seat.

View of the building of the First Model Store, opened in Leningrad on 25th October Avenue (Nevsky).

Entrance to the store.

The store's assortment, confectionery, sausages.

Customers at the counter, sellers serving customers.

A rotating display case with bakery products.

Sellers weigh grapes.

Sellers in the confectionery department serve customers, hand them their purchases.

A saleswoman in the wine department serves a customer.

Panorama of the store's sales area (from above).