Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1938)

Panoramas of mass pre-election rallies, rally participants hold portraits of the USSR leaders above their heads (above).

A speech by one of the speakers at the rally.

View and panorama of the pre-election rally on the territory of one of the Moscow industrial enterprises.

View of the Crimean Bridge in the morning.

Portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin on the facade of one of the buildings.

Pre-election visual propaganda on the streets of Moscow on election day, June 26, 1938. One of the scientists and his wife leave their home and go to the polling station.

People leave their entrance and go to the polling station.

Residents of one of the villages go to vote.

Collective farmers in the union republics of the USSR go to the polling stations.

Voters of the republics of Central Asia go to vote.

A mounted border patrol passes by.

A border guard on horseback inspects the area.

Panorama of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Pre-election propaganda design of one of the new Moscow buildings.

Checking and sealing ballot boxes at one of the polling stations.

View of part of the territory and the wall of the Moscow Kremlin.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 12:00. Employees of one of the polling stations open the entrance doors, people enter the premises.

Checking the documents of voters and issuing ballots.

A ballot addressed to the candidate I.V. Stalin.

Issuing a ballot to one of the voters.

People enter the voting booths.

A man leaves the voting booth.

Employees of the election commission check the ballots.

A ballot addressed to Stalin.

A woman receives a ballot.

People put ballots into the ballot boxes.

Voters of the Ukrainian SSR walk down the street and sing songs.

People at one of the polling stations.

Members of the visiting election commission in white coats and a nurse enter the ward of one of the maternity hospitals.

A young mother, lying on her bed, studies a ballot paper, the orderlies cover her with a screen, replacing the voting booth.

The face of one of the young mothers.

The orderlies lower the screen, the woman hands the completed ballot paper to a member of the mobile election commission.

The young mother votes without getting up from her bed, the commission members raise and lower the screen.