Three songs about Lenin (1934)

Tree trunks reaching upward.

View of the Lenin House-Museum in Gorki-Leninskiye.

Views of the pond in the park.

View of the park from the window of the room where Lenin died.

Photograph of Lenin V.I. and Stalin I.V. during their meeting in Gorki in 1922. Bench in the park.

Views of the house and the park.

Tree trunks reaching upward.

A woman in a chador is walking along the street of one of the cities in Central Asia, view of an old mosque.

A woman in a chador is walking along the street.

Muslims are performing a collective prayer near the walls of a mosque (top).

A boy is riding a donkey, a girl is carrying a chest of fabrics on her head.

Muslims are performing namaz (top).

A woman in a chador is walking along an adobe fence, putting a zinc bucket on her head.

Men are performing namaz.

A woman in a chador is riding a horse.

A mentally ill girl is walking along the street.

The bare feet of a sick girl.

The girl is sitting by the window and reading a book.

A pioneer squad with bugles and a drum is walking down the street, a girl is behind a windowpane.

View of part of a city block (from above).

A girl is leaving her house.

A pioneer squad is walking down the street.

A girl is walking down the street.

A woman is lifting her chador as she walks, revealing her face.

A girl is entering the doors of a women's club, a club sign is above the entrance.

A girl's face.

A doctor is measuring a girl's height and weight.

A girl is walking up the internal stairs of a women's club.

A man and a girl are playing the dutar, a class in a women's club.

Girls are studying Lenin's works during a political literacy class in a women's club.

A girl at a literacy class at a women's club.

Portrait of a young V. I. Ulyanov, slogans on the walls, shelves with Lenin's works translated into Uzbek (panorama).

A girl reading an illustrated magazine.

A literacy class in one of the villages.

A girl's face.

A combine harvesting crops at one of the state farms, an airplane flying in the sky.

A poultry farmer feeding the chickens and scattering grain.

The face of a girl walking in a pioneer formation.

A combine harvesting crops, an airplane flying low over the field.

Girls getting into a car in one of the villages during the farewell ceremony for those going to school in the city.

A combine harvesting crops, an airplane flying low over the field.

Faces of women and girls riding in a car.

Harvesting with a combine.

A typesetter types a text for a state farm newspaper from an open-air printing cash register.

A combine harvester, an airplane flies over the combine.

People catch leaflets dropped from an airplane.

An observer on a tower, an airplane flies over the tower.

A female tractor driver finishes repairing a tractor and starts it.

A cyclist overtakes a camel on the road, farmers read newspapers.

Political information session in a women's brigade of a state farm (top).

Plowing the land with a tractor.

A girl driving a tractor.

Rifle shooting training at the OSOAVIAKhIM shooting range, an instructor gives a girl instructions.

A family at the entrance to a yurt.

A woman strengthens the frame of the yurt.

A girl catches a radio wave on a crystal receiver.

Views of Red Square during a military parade (top), a woman riding a donkey approaches the entrance to a yurt, the face of a woman listening to the broadcast of the May Day parade from Moscow.

A woman rides a bicycle past a garden.

A woman turns on the electric light in a yurt.

Entrance to the Agro-Pedagogical Institute.

Faces of female students, view of a part of the university building in Tashkent.

Panorama and views of the buildings of a new textile factory.

Production processes in factory workshops, workers at machines, workers going to shift.

View of the factory.

Female workers in one of the factory workshops.

Loaded camels pass.

A woman takes her daughter to kindergarten.

Collective farmers go to work.

A woman waters the beds with water from a watering can.

A mother with a child in her arms.

Collective farmers doing field work.

A mother breastfeeds her child.

A camel stands by a yurt, a tractor passes by.

Harvesting in one of the collective farm fields.

Research of grains in a collective farm laboratory, laboratory employees at a microscope.

Cotton harvesting.

A surveyor at a theodolite.

Tea harvesting, a girl accountant at work.

A girl with a microscope in the field conducting research.

Tea picking, hands of tea pickers.

Tractors driving out to the field to plow the stubble.

View of part of the tea plantation during the harvest.

A girl driving a tractor.

Tractors with plows driving out to the field to plow.

Newsreel from 1920: V. I. Lenin speaking at a rally in honor of the opening of the monument "Emancipated Labor" on Prechistenskaya Embankment in Moscow on May 1, 1920, panorama and views of the rally (above). I. V. Stalin speaking from the rostrum, panorama of the rally (above).

Stalin and K. E. Voroshilov greeting participants of the demonstration on November 7 from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

View of part of the park in Gorki in autumn.

The face of a printing house worker.

View of a house in Lenin's Gorki.

The process of printing Lenin's portraits in the printing house, a bench in the park in Gorki.

Tree trunks reaching into the sky.

Faces of participants in the funeral meeting held during Lenin’s funeral in January 1924. Newsreel from 1924: Lenin on his deathbed in Gorki, faces of participants in the funeral meeting.

Panorama of a house in Gorki in January 1924, newsreel alternates with mournful faces of girls.

View of the funeral train at Gerasimovka station.

Placing the coffin with Lenin’s body in the carriage of the funeral train.

Landscape along the route of the funeral train to Moscow.

Railway bridge on the way to Moscow.

Red flag fluttering in the wind.

People at one of the stations on the way to Moscow.

Arrival of the funeral train at the Saratovsky railway station in Moscow, meeting the funeral train.

The face of Clara Zetkin.

Lenin preparing to speak at a meeting of the Third Congress of the Comintern, sitting next to the rostrum in the summer of 1921. Carrying funeral wreaths up the stairs of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Lenin waiting for a car after the end of the Congress on Extracurricular Education on May 6, 1919. Lifting the coffin lid up the stairs of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Lenin in a car before leaving Red Square on May 1, 1920. Lenin's speech at a rally in honor of the unveiling of the monument to Marx and Engels on Theater Square on November 7, 1918. Panorama of part of the rally (top).

Panorama and views of the meeting hall of the Second Congress of the Comintern in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd on July 19, 1920, Lenin before the speech.

Lenin speaks from the rostrum of the Tauride Palace, delegates in the hall applaud.

Panorama of part of the rally (top).

Lenin, leaning over the side of the back of a truck, shakes hands with a participant in the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on May 25, 1919. Panorama of part of the rally.

Lenin at a rally dedicated to the opening of the monument "Emancipated Labor" on May 1, 1920, next to him is O.D. Kameneva.

View of a part of the Gulf of Finland.

Inscription on the monument "V.I. Lenin's hut in Razliv".

View of the monument.

Columns of soldiers, Red Guards, cars and trucks on the streets of Petrograd in October 1917. Lenin speaking from the balcony of the Moscow City Council at a protest rally against the assassination of the leaders of the German revolution K. Liebknecht and R. Luxemburg in January 1919. A regiment of the Red Army passes by a monastery along a city street.

A wrecked railway carriage on the rails.

Units of the Red Army pass along a street in Petrograd.

A factory chimney falls.

A sentry stands guard at the gate in a blizzard.

A cavalry unit of the Red Army passes by.

View of a destroyed railway bridge.

A sentry freezing at his post.

A train with platforms and an armored platform passes by.

A cavalryman on patrol in winter.

A view of part of a field with ruined crops.

An attack by the Red Cavalry, a smoking locomotive.

Flamethrower flames, clouds of black smoke, infantry goes on the attack.

An attack by the Red Cavalry.

Infantry on the march.

Lenin speaks on Red Square to participants in the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on May 25, 1919, interspersed with footage of Red Army soldiers passing by and views of rallies.

Newsreel from 1920: V.I. Lenin at a rally dedicated to the opening of the monument "Emancipated Labor" on May 1, 1920, next to him is O.D. Kameneva.

Lenin in a coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in January 1924. Lenin speaking at a rally in honor of the opening of the monument "Emancipated Labor" on Prechistenskaya Embankment in Moscow on May 1, 1920. Lenin in a coffin.

Children walk past the coffin with Lenin's body.

The coffin with Lenin's body in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Frunze M.V. in the guard of honor, he is replaced by Petrovsky G.I. People walk past the coffin with Lenin's body.

Faces of people standing in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Lenin in a coffin.

Krupskaya N.K., Ulyanova-Elizarova A.I., Ulyanova M.I. at Lenin's coffin.

Stalin I.V. in the guard of honor.

Lenin in the coffin.

Funeral delegations pass by the coffin with Lenin's body.

Kalinin M.I. at Lenin's coffin.

Military personnel pass by the coffin.

Budyonny S.M. in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Children pass by.

Voroshilov K.E. in the guard of honor.

Faces of people passing by.

Lenin in the coffin, faces of members of the funeral delegations, a funeral wreath sent by A.M. Gorky.

Members of the funeral delegations pass by the coffin carrying wreaths.

Ulyanova-Elizarova with her adopted son G. Lozgachev at Lenin's coffin.

Dzerzhinsky F.E. in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

People enter the Hall of Columns.

Ulyanova M.I. in the guard of honor.

Ordzhonikidze G.K. in the guard of honor.

Faces of the members of the mourning delegation of one of the Central Asian republics.

Lenin in the coffin, Stalin in the guard of honor.

Crying Clara Zetkin at Lenin's coffin.

People pass by the coffin, women wipe away tears.

Orderlies carry a fainted man to the medical center.

Delivery of the victim to the medical center and rendering first aid.

Lenin in the coffin.

Young Pioneers in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Lenin in the coffin, faces of members of the mourning delegations passing by the coffin.

Red Navy sailors stand in the guard of honor.

A military brass band passes by Lenin's coffin.

An honor guard of cadet sailors with fixed bayonets passes by the coffin.

Participants in a mourning demonstration on the streets of Moscow, a mourning slogan and a chandelier in the Hall of Columns.

A mourning demonstration moves along Red Square on January 27, 1924. Panorama of part of the mourning rally on Red Square (top).

Lenin speaking on Red Square on the day of Ya. M. Sverdlov's funeral on March 18, 1919. The coffin with Lenin's body installed on a wooden platform on Red Square during the mourning rally, chandeliers in the Hall of Columns.

The face of N. K. Krupskaya.

The coffin on the platform.

Columns of the mourning demonstration move along Red Square.

Funeral wreaths.

Faces of participants in the mourning demonstration passing by.

Sentries at Lenin's coffin on the platform and at the entrance to the platform.

Panorama of part of the wall of the temporary mausoleum, sentries at the coffin, columns of the mourning demonstration on Red Square (alternating).

Mounted police and patrol near a fire on a street in Moscow.

Panorama of the funeral meeting (top), Krupskaya's face.

The sorrowful face of a girl.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 15.55, panorama of part of the funeral meeting.

Funeral artillery and rifle salute during the burial of Lenin's body in the mausoleum.

Red Army soldiers and commanders in formation.

The coffin with Lenin's body is carried into the temporary mausoleum, funeral rifle and artillery salute.

A woman carries a bundle of saxaul across the sand dunes and stops.

Funeral salute from the deck gun of the destroyer Trotsky.

Panorama of part of the desert.

Train wheels (bottom).

People stand on Red Square with bare heads, funeral salute from the deck gun, view of an industrial enterprise, peasants near a sleigh (alternation).

The face of an elderly woman.

Winter landscape.

Steam locomotives blow mourning whistles, views of a mourning meeting, faces of women and girls, residents of regions of the USSR during a minute of silence, winter landscapes (alternation).

A red flag flutters over a house in Gorki, a snowstorm sweeps, views of a winter park in Gorki.

A bench covered with snow.

Women and girls at a mourning meeting during a minute of silence (panorama).

Panorama of the central part of Moscow.

View of a part of the Moskva River in the city center (from above).

Panorama of the Kremlin wall battlements.

Views of Moscow at night, electric illumination.

Glowing windows of buildings.

Electric illumination.

Views of Red Square and the Lenin Mausoleum.

A woman sits in front of an extinguished fire in one of the republics of Central Asia, landscapes of Central Asia, deserts.

The face of a mother holding a baby in her arms.

View of the mausoleum.

Views of the night festive demonstration on Red Square.

Editions of Lenin's works in a foreign language, a night queue to the mausoleum, illuminated by searchlights.

View of Red Square in the rays of searchlights.

Participants in the physical culture parade of 1933 line up on Uritsky (Palace) Square in Leningrad in the form of a five-pointed star.

A girl in Uzbek national dress dances.

Participants in the physical culture parade do exercises on Red Square.

View of Uritsky Square during the performance of a sports and dance composition.

A mother with a child in her arms.

View of Red Square during the performance of synchronized floor exercises by participants in the physical culture parade, interspersed with faces of women from the Central Asian republics.

Children at the physical culture parade on Red Square.

Ripening cotton.

A girl's face.

Water in an irrigation canal.

Performance of a young artist accompanied by an ensemble of Uzbek folk instruments, a girl's face.

A blossoming flower.

View of Uritsky Square during the performance of a sports and dance composition.

A tugboat floats along the river.

View of an industrial enterprise.

The production process in a foundry.

Squadrons of airplanes fly overhead.

Workers go to their shift.

An artillery shell explodes.

Trucks drive by.

Planes fly.

Destruction of a natural barrier with a water-jet cannon, construction of a dam, production processes in a foundry, miners descend into a coalface, the face of steelmaker Makar Mazai, A.G. Stakhanov works in a coalface (alternation).

Wheels of a train.

An airplane sprays fertilizers.

Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Kalinin M.I., Mikoyan A.I. walk along the wall of the mausoleum.

Streams of water falling from the dam of a hydroelectric power station, a bust of Lenin (combined shooting).

A female builder talks about the labor feat of her team and the everyday life of concrete workers (synchronously), a sentry with a rifle with a fixed bayonet against the background of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station (combined shooting).

Red banners are waving.

Views of Dneprostroi, faces of builders (combined footage).

A man is leaving the entrance of a house.

View of the Dneproges control room.

People are leaving the entrance.

A stream of water pouring over the dam, a view of a part of the Dneproges machine room.

A column of Dneproges builders is moving to a rally to mark the launch of the first unit of the hydroelectric power station on October 10, 1932 (top).

Views of Dneproges (combined footage).

An engineer is talking about the significance of Dneproges, built as part of Lenin's plan for the electrification of the country (synchronously).

Views of parts of the Dneproges transformer substation, V.I. Lenin at a rally in honor of the opening of the "Emancipated Labor" monument (freeze frame).

A monument to Lenin on the bank of the Dnieper.

View of the Dneproges dam.

Water is pouring over the dam.

View of the Lenin monument.

Power transmission line equipment.

Seeding units and trucks with seeds leaving for the field in one of the collective farms.

A leading collective farmer talks about the amount of grain harvested (synchronously and off-screen).

A trailed combine harvester during the harvest.

The flow of grain on the grain threshing floor.

The female chairwoman of the Lenin collective farm talks about the role of women in collective farm production (synchronously), the production process on the grain threshing floor.

A view of the Lenin monument, parachutists jumping out of an airplane.

The interior of the railway station.

A formation of airplanes in the sky forming the inscription "USSR".

A view of the Lenin monument.

A view of one of the Baku oil fields.

Transportation of mined coal by overhead wagons.

The face of a steelmaker, a view of a part of a metallurgical enterprise.

The face of M. Mazai working at a blast furnace.

View of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (top), alternating with a view of the Lenin monument.

Trains passing by.

Blasting operations during the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal.

View of the dam of one of the hydroelectric power plants (top).

A Moscow metro train passes along an open section of the line.

View of the front of the Joseph Stalin locomotive.

The red flag is waving.

The icebreaker is breaking the ice.

The captain of the icebreaker and O.Yu.

Schmidt on the captain's bridge.

The bow of the icebreaker is breaking the ice. I.D. Papanin comes out of the tent.

Tent of the drifting station of the Main Northern Sea Route.

The radio operator conducts a communication session with the mainland.

Publications of the works of V.I. Lenin in Russian and foreign languages.

View of a sculptural group.

People with flowers on the platform.

Broken ice overboard the icebreaker.

Meeting O.Yu.

Schmidt at the station.

Meeting of the Chelyuskinites in Moscow in 1934, leaflets flying from above, alternating with a view of broken ice overboard the icebreaker.

View of Gorky Street during the meeting of the Chelyuskinites.

May Day demonstration on Red Square.

Blooming rose.

Broken ice overboard the icebreaker.

Stalin I.V. on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Views of Red Square and the mausoleum during the festive demonstration (combined photography).

Views of the May Day demonstration in Berlin in the late 1920s, Telman E. speaking at a rally.

May Day demonstrations abroad, in China and Europe.

Dolores Ibarruri speaking.

Fighters of the International Brigades marching.

Red Army parade.

Stalin on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Views of Red Square during the military parade (from above), Stalin, Voroshilov K.E., Kalinin M.I. on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Planes fly over Red Square, tanks drive past the mausoleum.

Planes fly.

View of the mausoleum and Lenin's profile made of electric bulbs (combined photography).