Soviet Lithuania (1950-1955)

A report in the Lithuanian press on awarding the title of Hero of Socialist Labor to pig farm manager S. Vitkiene in 1950. A meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR Yu. I. Paleckis speaks at a regular meeting.

Faces of the meeting participants.

Paleckis presents the Golden Star "Hammer and Sickle" to S. Vitkiene at the Stačiūnai collective farm, congratulating her on the high award.

Paleckis presents the Order of Lenin to Vitkiene's assistant.

The collective farmers applaud.

View of a part of Lithuania covered with lakes (above).

Views of dilapidated ancient castles.

Summer landscape (panorama), remains of a castle on an island.

Panorama of the ruins of an ancient castle and view of part of an old city block on the river bank (above).

Landscapes of Lithuania, fragments of the ruins of one of the castles, the wall of a dilapidated tower.

Views of a dilapidated castle.

An ancient tower and spire of a church.

A restorer renews the inscriptions on the memorial plaques on the walls of the Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in Vilnius.

An inscription on the plaque about the baptism of A.P. Gannibal, the grandfather of A.S. Pushkin, in the church.

Pioneers led by a guide leave the church.

Pioneers on the territory of the temple complex.

Pioneers listen to the guide's story.

Pioneers walk along the territory of the complex.

View of an ancient chapel.

Pioneers walk around a reinforced concrete pillbox left over from the Great Patriotic War.

The guide shows the pioneers the marks of shell impacts on the wall of a pillbox.

The pioneers, led by the guide, walk along the territory of the former fortified area.

Ancient coats of arms on the wall of one of the castles.

A painting depicting the interior of one of the ceremonial halls of the castle.

Portrait of the owner of the castle.

View of the remains of the castle.

Buildings and a house on the territory of a farm that belonged to a German kulak.

Views of the ruins of German castles on the territory of the Lithuanian SSR. View of the church building.

Summer landscapes of the Klaipeda region.

Girls drive cows to the watering hole.

Fragments of a painting depicting the Battle of Grunwald.

Landscapes of the Neman, a sailboat floats by.