Domestic and foreign newsreels (1927-1935)

Gorky A.M. communicates with residents of the village of Negoreloye on the Soviet-Polish border who are meeting him from the train window, gives autographs.

Faces of children standing near the train car.

Gorky takes a newspaper from one of the people meeting him and shakes his hand.

A military brass band is playing.

Children are standing near the train car, waving their hands at Gorky.

The train departs from the Negoreloye station, Gorky looks out of the train car window.

Landscapes outside the train car window.

The red flag over the dome of the Belorussko-Baltic railway station in Moscow.

The Lenin monument at the train station.

The train arrives at the station on May 14, 1931. People on the platform, the cameraman is trying to set up the camera.

Gorky looks out of the train car window at the people meeting him.

The people meeting him greet Gorky.

Gorky and his entourage exit the train car.

Gorky among the people meeting him.

Workers of the Moscow Electric Plant, AMO and Hammer and Sickle plants, holding banners, greet Gorky.

Gorky leaves the station building.

A view of part of the station square during the meeting with Gorky.

People in the crowd are trying to get a good look at Gorky.

The car with Gorky passes through the "corridor", people fill the empty space.

Views of the station square during the meeting with Gorky.

Canadian lumberjacks, who have declared themselves shock workers, leave a barracks at a logging site in the Karelian SSR before the start of their shift.

The face of one of the Canadian lumberjacks.

Sawing a trunk with a one-handed saw.

Removing timber by horse-drawn transport.

One of the workers saws a tree trunk with a one-handed saw.

A felled tree falls.

A lumberjack chops off branches of a felled tree trunk in Karelia.

Laying a road in the snow for removing felled timber.

Removing harvested timber using a sled train towed by a crawler tractor.

A sled train loaded with coal passes by.

View of the upper wooden part of a mine built according to the American model.

Inside view of one of the mine adits.

Miners reinforce the upper vault.

The coal mining process.

A miner with a jackhammer.

Rolling back coal cars.

Unloading coal from a car into a box mounted on a sled.

A miner repairs a broken pneumatic jackhammer.

Broken jackhammers.

Turning the compressor control lever.

The compressor wheel stops.

A mechanic repairs a compressor.

Miners in the face work with a pick because of broken jackhammers.

Parts of a new compressor sent from abroad lie buried in snow.

Boxes of imported equipment abandoned in the snow.

Demonstration of the unemployed in New York.

Speakers address the participants of the demonstration, calling for protests.

Mounted police disperse a demonstration of the unemployed in New York.

Views of New York streets during the dispersal of the demonstration.

A policeman pushes demonstrators away from the fence.

Police detain labor activists during a demonstration.

One of the clashes between the police and demonstrators.

View of the hall of the intercity workers' rally in Moscow.

Faces of the rally participants.

Polish revolutionary S. F. Lancutsky opens the meeting.

The rally participants applaud.

Delegate from Germany Margis speaks.

Speech by representative of the Communist Party of Argentina V. Codovilla.

Rally participants in the boxes of the hall.

Lumberjack Vasiliev speaks.

The face of one of the rally participants.

Poet N. N. Aseyev reads poems on current issues to the rally participants, representatives of the Komsomol in the hall.

Faces of the rally participants sitting in the hall.

The "Red Convoy" of lumberjacks from the Berezovsky logging sites passes by, views of the convoy with timber.

Fire trucks and fire crews on Uritsky (Palace) Square in Leningrad during a review of fire departments in the early 1930s.

Views of the tribune near the walls of the Winter Palace, city leadership, military command and fire department leadership on the tribune.

The commander of the parade of Leningrad fire departments receives a report.

The parade commander and his entourage walk around the parade formation of firefighters, views of Uritsky Square.

Fire crews take their places in their vehicles and drive out to a simulated fire during demonstration performances on Uritsky Square.

A horse-drawn fire convoy drives out to the site of a simulated fire.

Horse-drawn fire crews drive across the square.

A fire truck with an extendable ladder on the square during the parade.

Firefighters in formation with banners.

Fire departments march in parade formation across Uritsky Square in front of the tribune.

Personnel of one of the fire departments after passing by.

Horse-drawn fire brigades pass in front of the tribune.

Firefighters in parade formation.

Fire escapes near the wall of the General Staff building.

Extinguishing a simulated fire using fire hoses on Uritsky Square in front of the General Staff arch.

Activation of a horse-drawn steam fire pump.

American workers at the graves of victims of the revolution in Leningrad (panorama).

American workers with a wreath at Volodarsky's grave.

Representatives of American workers give speeches at Volodarsky's grave.

Laying a wreath at Volodarsky's grave.

A wreath at the graves of Volodarsky and Voskov.

The oldest member of the Communist Party, Mayer, who came to the USSR with the US delegation, gives an interview.

New buses, trucks and cars manufactured at the AMO plant drive onto railway platforms.

Railway platforms with motor transport heading to their destination.

Workers of the Oktyabrsky district of the Moscow region are heading to the "Voroshilovsky subbotnik" to work in the fields, with a brass band leading the way.

Subbotnik participants walk along the platform to board passenger cars.

Subbotnik participants boarding cars.

Landscapes outside the carriage window.

Subbotnik participants walk with shovels on their shoulders.

Subbotnik participants going out into the field.

Digging silage trenches by hand.

View of a field with tomato beds during weeding.

Female workers weeding tomato beds.

Women and girls harvesting strawberries and other berries.

Baskets with picked berries.

English writer Bernard Shaw exits a train carriage in Moscow in July 1931, responding to greetings from those meeting him from the carriage steps.

Shaw on the platform among those meeting him, next to him is Khalatov A.B. People on the station square waiting for Bernard Shaw to exit the station building.

Shaw and his entourage walk to the car.

Show inside the car.

The car starts moving, people are on the station square.

Paying out salaries at the cash desk.

Model of a blast furnace under construction, presented to the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) by the workers of Makeyevka in December 1927, fragments of the model.

A plaque with a dedication on the model stand.

Demonstration of German communists, members of the "Union of Red Front Soldiers" in Berlin on November 7, 1927, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution.

Demonstrators walk along the streets of Berlin, drummers and brass band musicians with musical instruments in their hands.

Views of the demonstration, banners with slogans above the columns of demonstrators.

Police officers observe the demonstration.

Columns of demonstrators walk along the streets of Berlin.

A medic stands by the stretchers prepared for the wounded.

Faces of the demonstration participants, effigies of reactionary political figures.

A view of one of the columns of the demonstration, a model of a cannon on a truck platform.

Panorama of a mass rally in Lustgarten.

A speaker speaks while standing on the pedestal of a monument.

Panorama of part of the rally.

German Komsomol member Greta Wilde gives a speech.

Participants in the rally raise their hats three times.

Members of the German workers' delegation wave goodbye with their hands and caps from the deck of a ship as it sails from Leningrad.

German delegates on the deck of the steamship "Soviet" sailing from Leningrad.

The departing steamship.

Views of a rally in Baku on the occasion of the opening of a new fuel and lubricants plant, a speech by one of the speakers.

The face of US President F.D. Roosevelt giving an interview about the normalization of relations between the USSR and the USA. The face of the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR M.I. Kalinin.

People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR M.M. Litvinov during Soviet-American negotiations in 1933. Views of the upper part of the Artem mine in Donbass.

The process of mechanical coal mining.

A miner breaks off the rock manually.

Miners in the adit drag out a piece of coal.

Operation of equipment for transporting coal to the mine.

A shift of miners leaves the cage.

Transportation of coal in mine cars, haulers at work.

An elevator operator at the levers.

Haulage of mine cars with coal from the elevator platform.

Mechanical cutting of the coal seam.

A train of mine cars with coal passes through the adit.

A miner in the face.

Haulage of another mine car with coal.

Diagram of the increase in coal production for June-September 1933 (animation).

Miners working in the coal face.

Mechanical dumping of coal lumps onto the conveyor belt.

Portrait of striker Demichev.

Miners leaving the cage.

Dumping coal onto the conveyor belt.

Portrait of striker Asanov.

Coal conveyor in operation and the process of rolling coal cars.

Portrait of striker, longwall unloader Bolotnikov.

A train of coal cars passes by.

View of part of a city block and an avenue laid on the site of the village of Dyushambe.

View of one of the old streets of Dyushambe.

Panorama of the new blocks of Dyushambe, renamed Stalinabad.

Views of streets and new buildings in Stalinabad.

Views of new cultural and administrative buildings.

Fruit and vegetable sales at the city market.

Donkeys loaded with goods.

A truck passes along one of the streets of Stalinabad.

Street sales of watermelons.

A cart with sacks passes by the building of the new sports complex.

View of the Red Army House.

View of the central street of Stalinabad (from above).

Pines in the Ural taiga, bending from gusts of wind.

A saw cuts a pine trunk.

Felling trees at the future construction site of the Uralelmash plant in the Sverdlovsk region.

Entrance to the construction site of the plant.

Panorama and views of the construction of the plant buildings.

Delivery of bricks using a belt conveyor.

Harvesting grain with a combine on the Krasny Oktyabr collective farm in the Jewish Autonomous Region.

Jewish immigrant from Kremenchug, combine operator Torchinsky, harvesting.

The combine reel rotates.

The threshed grain pours out of the combine sleeve.

A mounted border patrol rides along the bank of the Amur.

The waters of the Amur.

View of the opposite Manchurian bank.

View of a Manchurian fanza.

Faces of Manchurian peasants.

A peasant ploughs the land with oxen.

The face of a Manchu peasant walking behind a plough.

A peasant walking behind a plough, view of a plot of land.

A combine harvester at the Krasny Oktyabr collective farm.

Collective farmers making hay, threshed grain pouring out of the combine's sleeve.

Drive belts of a thresher.

Threshed grain pouring out of the thresher's sleeve.

Harvesting with horse-drawn reapers.

The work of a collective farm grain threshing floor.

A collective farm herd of cows in a pasture.

A sow with two piglets.

Cows in a pasture.

Residential buildings of collective farmers.

Timber rafting on the Northern Dvina.

Rafters tying logs together in knee-deep water.

Rafters pushing logs with boat hooks.

View of a timber rafting station (from above).

Views of timber rafting on the Northern Dvina, a rafter working with a boat hook.

A Red Army naval aviation unit in formation.

A sailor raises the flag.

The bicycle race judge gives the command to start during the sports festival.

The cyclists start.

The winner of the bicycle race finishes.

Spectators in the stands.

Tug-of-war competition.

Group wrestling competition.

The plane begins its run along the airfield.

The airfield tower decorated with coloring flags.

The pilot at the controls of the plane.

Airplanes flying by.

The world's largest multi-seat bus "YA-2" drives along one of the squares of Leningrad.

The bus drives along the squares and streets of Leningrad.

The bus stops.

Passengers disembark and board through the front and back doors.

Views of the "YA-2" bus.

A five-pointed star and an emblem in the form of a hammer and sickle on the top of the bus radiator.

Gorky A.M. speaks from the rostrum in the Column Hall of the House of Unions at the First Congress of Soviet Writers on August 22, 1934, speaks about the tasks and role of the Soviet writer in socialist construction, the formation of the personality of the Soviet person (synchronously).

Applauding participants of the congress.

English science fiction writer Herbert Wells and his entourage entering Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square in July 1934. Wells exits the mausoleum.

Cars on Red Square.

Wells gets into a car.

The building of the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity in Koltushi, Leningrad Region.

The employees of the institute meet Wells.

The name of the Institute is on the pediment of the building.

Wells, academician I.P. Pavlov and the employees accompanying them exit the institute building.

The faces of Wells and Pavlov.

Experimental monkeys in an enclosure perform various actions, Wells watches the monkeys, Wells's face.

Pavlov and Wells at the cage of the enclosure.

One of the institute's mottos on the building's pediment.

Pavlov, Wells, the institute's staff, and children sit on chairs before being photographed.

The faces of Pavlov and Wells conversing with each other.

Wells bids farewell to Pavlov, his wife, and the institute's staff.

Pavlov and his staff see off the car carrying Wells.

A caterpillar tractor being transported on railway platforms.

View of the front part of the locomotive "Joseph Stalin".

Stalin I.V. speaks at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites in the Kremlin in November 1935, Stakhanov A.G. listens to Stalin's speech in the hall.

Stakhanov and members of his team work in the coalface.

The mined coal is poured onto the conveyor belt.

Stakhanov and his comrades leave the gates of the "Central-Irmino" mine after the end of the shift in August 1935, the miners greet the shock workers.

Presentation of flowers to Stakhanov and his comrades.

Faces of applauding miners.

Stakhanov with a bouquet of flowers presented to him.