VII session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the first convocation (1940)

Views of the Moscow Kremlin and the Moskva River.

View of the Spasskaya Tower.

Views of the Kremlin grounds.

Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR walk along the Kremlin grounds to a meeting of the Seventh Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the first convocation.

The deputies enter the building of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Yaroslavsky E.M. goes to a meeting of the session.

Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR walk to a meeting.

Representatives of the newly formed Lithuanian SSR enter the building of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Deputies in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace before the start of the meeting.

Deputies from the Baltic republics that were included in the USSR talk to each other.

Deputies greet each other.

The face of the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR Paleckis Yu.I. Faces of the deputies talking.

Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR greet each other and talk in the meeting hall.

Paleckis in the meeting hall as part of the Lithuanian delegation.

The deputies applaud and stand up.

Molotov V.M., Voroshilov K.E., Kaganovich L.M., Mikoyan A.I., Beria L.P. enter the meeting hall.

Deputies applaud.

Stalin I.V., Zhdanov A.A., Malenkov G.M., Khrushchev N.S. enter the hall and take their places in the presidium.

The deputies greet the leaders of the party and the state.

The faces of the deputies.

Stalin, Nikolaeva K.I. and Badayev A.E. are among the applauding members of the presidium.

Stalin and Khrushchev sit down in their places, the rest continue to applaud.

Molotov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich and the deputies in the hall finish applauding and sit down in their places.

Molotov announces the opening of the first meeting of the Seventh Session of the Supreme Soviet of the first convocation.

Everyone stands and applauds.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Kulik G.I. is among the deputies.

Faces of applauding deputies, views of the meeting hall, Molotov on the rostrum.

Members of the presidium sit down, Molotov begins his report.

Views of the presidium and the meeting hall, Molotov speaks from the rostrum.

Khrushchev and Stalin in the presidium listen to Molotov's report.

Deputies listen to Molotov's report.

Molotov speaks from the rostrum, deputies applaud, views of the hall and presidium of the meeting during Molotov's report.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Timoshenko S.K. in the presidium of the meeting.

Faces of deputies listening to Molotov's speech.

Deputies and members of the presidium applaud Molotov.

Molotov continues his speech, deputies listen to him.

Stalin and Khrushchev in the presidium during Molotov's speech.

Faces of deputies.

Deputies applaud.

Views of the presidium of the meeting and the hall, Molotov continues his report, faces of deputies.

Molotov finishes his report, leaves the rostrum.

Deputies stand up, applaud, faces of deputies.

Badayev, Nikolayeva, Stalin applaud, standing in the presidium.

Applauding deputies.

Molotov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich applaud, standing in the presidium.

Faces of applauding deputies, views of the meeting hall.