Parade of Leningrad athletes (1931)

Columns of Leningrad athletes march along the 9th of January (Palace) Embankment.

Columns of athletes pass by the stands on the embankment, with the spit of Vasilievsky Island behind them.

View of part of the Lenin Stadium (above), columns of athletes marching through the stadium.

A column of athletes with rifles at the ready marches, view of part of one of the stadium stands.

Second Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) M.S. Chudov on the stand.

Performing synchronized movements by athletes on the stadium field.

Synchronized performance of rifle techniques by festival participants.

View of part of the stadium during the synchronized performance of exercises by athletes (above).

Synchronized performance of rifle techniques and bayonet strikes by participants in the sports festival.

View of the stadium during the sports festival (above).