Newsreel of the USSR (1928-1972)

Shaposhnikov B.M., Kirov S.M. in the Kremlin among the military.

Guests in the Kremlin during a reception.

Molotov V.M. enters the room.

Stalin I.V. stands at the entrance.

Faces of applauding guests.

Stalin, Ordzhonikidze G.K., Mikoyan A.I. applaud in response.

Molotov rings the bell, calling for silence.

Faces of Stalin and Voroshilov K.E. Awarded Stakhanovites shake hands with members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

One of the members of the Buryat-Mongol delegation shakes hands with members of the Politburo.

Faces of applauding members of the Buryat-Mongol delegation.

Members of the delegation applaud.

Stalin takes in his arms the daughter of the People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR Gelya Markizova, Voroshilov stands nearby, faces of applauding delegates.

Stalin puts Gelya Markizova on the floor and applauds her in response.

The faces of the applauding members of the Azerbaijan delegation, Stalin and Mikoyan applaud in response.

Molotov and Voroshilov applaud the delegates.

One of the delegates embraces Stalin.

Stalin and his entourage after arriving at the Shchyolkovo airfield during the aviation festival in 1936. Stalin talks to pilot Chkalov V.P. Chkalov, Stalin, Voroshilov among the pilots.

Residents of Moscow greet the pilots riding in cars along the streets of the city, leaflets are flying from above.

Participants in a bike ride ride along the road past a reservoir.

The Cossack cavalry unit of the Red Army on the march.

Cossacks in the saddles play the accordions on the move, sing a song.

Singing Cossacks in the saddles.

The naval flag of the USSR flutters.

The station duty officer blows a whistle.

A locomotive blows its whistle.

A girl with flowers waves goodbye from the train window.

People on the platform wave back.

A train pulls away from the station in Vladivostok.

People seeing off the train walk along the platform, waving goodbye.

A late passenger runs along the platform, catching up with the train.

The train departs from the Vladivostok station.

A passenger train on the way, view of a locomotive.

Passengers with children in their arms look out the train windows.

The face of one of the passengers.

A passenger train on the way.

Mountain landscape (panorama).

View of an industrial enterprise at sunrise.

Production processes in a foundry.

A steelmaker at a furnace.

The face of a foreman giving commands, interior view of a part of the workshop.

Production process in a foundry.

Molten iron is poured into a bowl.

Industrial landscape at sunrise.

A speaker at the podium during a ceremonial meeting in honor of the 55th anniversary of the October Revolution and honoring veterans in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in 1972. A bugler on horseback gives the signal to attack during the Civil War.

A parade of units of the First Cavalry Army in 1920. An armored train on the move fires from its side guns.

Armored platforms of an armored train passing through a station.

Budyonny S.M., Voroshilov K.E. on horseback during a ceremonial rally in the First Cavalry Army, a panorama of the rally.

Red Army soldiers with rifles on their shoulders pass by.

One of the first detachments of the Red Army passes by.

A view of a demonstration unit on a Moscow street in the early 1920s.

A young bugler blows a bugle.

Veterans stand in front of the presidium table of the ceremonial meeting in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, behind in the presidium Podgorny N.V., Brezhnev L.I., Kosygin A.N. are giving a standing ovation, the faces of the applauding veterans.

One of the meeting participants speaks from the rostrum.

A train with Magnitostroy builders passes by in 1931. A signal is given by striking the bell.

Earthworks at the construction site of the Magnitogorsk Combine.

Removal of soil by horse-drawn transport.

Boiler riveters at work.

Rolling back mine cars with soil.

Construction work, the faces of the builders.

Views of Blast Furnace No. 2 "Komsomolskaya" under construction.

Trams pass by.

A miner works in the coalface.

A miner's face.

A train arrives at one of the Moscow metro stations.

Tractors leaving for plowing (above).

The face of a female tractor driver.

Harvesting beets.

The takeoff of a stratospheric balloon.

View of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (top).

Panorama of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

A brass band on a moving platform during a ceremonial rally.

Veterans stand in front of the presidium of the ceremonial meeting in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses; one of the participants in the meeting speaks from the rostrum.

Barrage balloons over Moscow in the fall of 1941. A Red Army unit marches along the embankment of the Moskva River.

The poster "The Motherland Calls!".

Issuance of weapons to partisans.

A train with tanks goes to the front.

Soviet fighters fly.

A pilot in the cockpit.

A medical orderly evacuates a wounded soldier from the battlefield.

Manufacture of artillery parts at one of the factories.

Faces of the workers.

Production of various types of weapons for the Red Army.

A tank with the inscription "Komsomolets" on its turret goes on the attack.

A tractor column moves to harvest.

Everyday life of female workers in industrial restoration teams; girls exit the fuselage of a German transport plane converted into housing.

A guards mortar crew loads a combat vehicle.

Battles in Berlin in April 1945. Captured German flags are thrown at the foot of the mausoleum during the parade on June 24, 1945. Veterans applaud while standing in front of the tribune during a ceremonial meeting in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in 1972. Faces of veterans standing in front of the tribune (panorama).

View of the presidium of the ceremonial meeting (top).

Panorama of the train station platform during the departure of Komsomol members to the virgin lands in 1954. Virgin land workers say goodbye to their families.

The train starts moving.

A passenger train is en route.

A train with agricultural machinery on platforms passes.

Virgin land workers pitch tents in the steppe.

Laying the first furrow.

Panorama of the steppe during plowing (top).

A combine operator at the controls.

Harvesting grain on virgin lands with combines.

Wind in the desert, catching a camel caravan by surprise.

Construction of a railway track in a sandstorm.

The wind drives sand along the dunes.

Interior view of part of a laboratory.

Production process at a textile mill, the face of a worker.

Production processes in pipe-rolling and open-hearth shops of industrial enterprises, the face of a steelmaker.

Transportation of a trailer on a truck platform.

View of part of one of the new Moscow quarters (top).

Representatives of the union republics of the USSR in national costumes during the festival at VDNKh.

View of the ceremonial meeting hall in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

Faces of young participants in the meeting.

Komsomol members, leading workers in production, speak from the rostrum.

View of the presidium of the meeting. V. V. Tereshkova is speaking from the rostrum, cosmonauts are standing next to the rostrum with a gift for the meeting participants, M. A. Suslov and A. P. Kirilenko are sitting in the presidium behind.

Launch of the spacecraft.

Yu. A. Gagarin during the flight on April 12, 1961. View of part of the earth's surface from space.

Work on damming the Yenisei in March 1963 during the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station.

Throwing stone blocks into the water.

View of the mast of the power transmission line.

View of part of the turbine hall of the hydroelectric power station.

High-rise fitters at the construction of the hydroelectric power station.

Installing a uranium rod before the launch of the nuclear power plant.

View of one of the industrial enterprises.

Launching of the ship "Komsomolets Leningrada".

Panorama of the ceremonial assembly hall in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the meeting participants are applauding.

Faces of the meeting participants.

View of the presidium of the meeting.

One of the meeting participants is speaking from the rostrum.

Foreign military attachés greet Soviet military personnel before the parade on Red Square on November 7, 1951. A column of demonstrators with a portrait of Stalin enters the square.

Malenkov G.M., Beria L.P., Kaganovich L.M., Khrushchev N.S., Suslov M.A. greet the demonstration participants from the stands of the mausoleum.

Columns of demonstrators and athletes march along Red Square.

Banners above the column of athletes.

Panorama and views of Red Square during the festive demonstration (above), female athletes greet the leaders of the USSR. View of one of the columns of athletes marching along Red Square.

Malenkov, Beria, Kaganovich, Mikoyan on the stands of the mausoleum.

A column of athletes marches along Red Square.

View of Red Square during the demonstration on November 7, 1951 (above).

Stalin, Kirov, Kaganovich in the presidium of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) argue during a break in the meeting.

Kirov in a coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Red flags with mourning ribbons on the wall of the Column Hall.

Funeral portrait of Kirov.

Participants in the demonstration on November 7, 1951 walk in a column along the streets of Moscow, carrying portraits of Stalin, leading workers, members of the Politburo, and banners with slogans.

Participants in the demonstration move in columns to Red Square, dancing as they go, faces of dancing girls.

View of one of the streets of Moscow during the movement of the demonstration columns.

People in the guest stands on Red Square.

Voroshilov, Kaganovich, Suslov, Khrushchev, Bulganin N.A., Ponomarenko P.K., Malenkov, Mikoyan gather in the courtyard of the Kremlin before going out to Red Square, shake hands with each other.

View of Red Square before the military parade on November 7, 1951 (above).

Voroshilov, Malenkov, Bulganin, Kaganovich, Beria, Mikoyan exit the mausoleum, climb the stairs to the tribune, panorama of the guest tribunes, people applauding.

The leaders of the USSR and the Communist Party enter the tribune of the mausoleum.

Faces of applauding people.

Beria, Malenkov, Shvernik N.M., Budyonny on the tribune of the mausoleum.

View of the tribune of the mausoleum.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 10:00.

View of the top of the main building of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant.

The 50,000th Stalinets crawler tractor leaves the assembly shop gates.

Tractors standing in a row in the finished goods shop.

Tractors on railway platforms are sent to their destinations.

View of the Lenin monument.

Panorama of the territory of one of the MTS. A female tractor driver repairs a tractor engine.

The girl's face.

A tractor driver driving a wheeled tractor.

Plowing and cultivating the land with tractor plows and cultivators.

A girl driving a tractor during sowing.

Harvesting with a tractor reaper.

Harvesting root crops.

The initiator of the "Five Hundred" movement Maria Demchenko at the vegetable harvest.

The harvested radish crop.

The threshed grain is poured into a bunker.

Harvesting sunflower crops with a combine.

Combine driver Borin puts his palms under the threshed sunflower seeds.

Sunflower harvesting.

Cotton harvester during harvesting.

Manual cotton harvesting, face of a cotton picker.

View of the upper part of the Lenin monument.

Leaders of one of the collective farms ride horseback to inspect ripe wheat.

Combine reel during grain harvesting.

Kommunar combine during harvesting.

Threshed grain pours out of the combine sleeve.

Harvesting with a tractor mower.

Girl driving a tractor.

Threshed grain pours out of the combine sleeve into the bunker.

A truck with grain leaves for the elevator.

Manual winnowing of grain on a grain threshing floor.

Views of new residential buildings.

View of part of a new city block, a tram passes.

Nursery children and their teacher dance in a circle near the fountain.

Sign of nursery #23. Kids doing morning exercises.

Preparing a poster for a holiday.

One of the kids during lunch.

Lunch in the nursery group of the kindergarten.

Panorama of one of the sanatoriums in Sochi.

Sea surf.

Vacationers sunbathing on the beach.

A woman with a child playing on the balcony of one of the sanatoriums.

View of the building of the new school.

Students going to class.

Physics lesson in one of the classrooms.

A girl counts on an abacus.

A student comes to the blackboard.

A woman goes to the blackboard during a class on literacy courses.

Students during a physics lab (panorama).

The teacher writes with chalk on the blackboard, a panorama of the blackboard with a drawn diagram.

Students taking notes on a lecture.

Students during physics and chemistry lab classes.

Stalin I.V. and Voroshilov K.E. on the mausoleum tribune during a festive demonstration.

Representatives of Republican Spain walk along Red Square.

Stalin greets the demonstration participants from the mausoleum tribune.

Faces of the demonstration participants walking past the mausoleum.

Columns of demonstrators on one of the streets of Moscow.

Stalin greets the participants of the demonstration from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

View of one of the columns of the demonstration.

View of Red Square during the demonstration (above).

Stalin on the rostrum of the mausoleum.