In the spring (1929)

Clouds float across the spring sky.

A lamp on a pole.

A snowstorm and snowdrifts on city streets.

Snow covers fences and buildings.

A snowstorm on a city street, a cabby’s horse in the snow, views of streets and countryside during a snowfall (fast-cutting shots, combined shooting).

The clouds disperse.

A winter rural landscape.

A cabby on the street waiting for passengers, a street lamp.

Clouds float across the sky, a telegraph pole.

The tail of a flying airplane, snowdrifts on city streets.

People walk past a snowdrift.

A snowman on the street.

The shadow of a flying airplane on a snow-covered plain (above).

The head of a snowman.

The tail of an airplane.

A flying airplane.

A panorama of a part of a city block (above).

The wheel of a car skidding in the snow.

Loading snow into a cart on one of the city streets, snow and icicles falling from the eaves of a house, view of the wall of the house.

A girl with a shovel playing in the snow.

Icicles hanging from the roof.

Ice in the drain pipe on the corner of the house, a Red Army soldier talking to a girl, standing by the fence.

Clearing the sidewalk of snow and ice with scrapers and crowbars, melt water pouring out of the drain pipe on the corner of the house.

Spring drip.

A convoy of carts loaded with snow drives along the street.

Cleaning up broken ice blocks.

Spring drip.

Melting snowman, demolition men using crowbars make a hole in the ice to install explosives.

A Red Army soldier and a girl look at the city from a height.

Melting snowman against the background of an industrial enterprise.

The face of the chief demolition men blowing a whistle.

Removing a bucket of water from an ice hole.

Detonating an explosive device.

View of a part of a frozen river (from above).

People blowing up in different places, a melting snowman.

The upper part of the melting snowman falls on the snow.

View of a snow slide for sledding (above).

Boarded up doors of the entrance to the skating rink.

Spring streams run, streams of melt water on the sidewalks, a paper boat floats.

Increasing streams of melt water near the curbs.

Panorama of part of Kyiv in spring (above).

A car drives over humms of melting ice.

Horse-drawn transport on melting snow.

One of the spring puddles, view of one of the streets flooded with melt water.

A dog crosses a puddle.

People and horse-drawn transport stuck in spring puddles.

Reflections of the sky, buildings, lanterns, people, a tram, a cameraman in spring puddles.

A car skids while driving through a puddle.

A tram travels on rails flooded with melt water.

Reflections of people on the surfaces of puddles.

Melt water in the sunlight.

Spring mud on the streets.

Passengers boarding a tram.

A galosh lost in the mud, a tram passes by.

A horse stuck in the mud, passers-by helping each other out of the mud.

The feet of people walking through the mud.

A drayman tries to pull a cart out of the mud, digs it out, an unharnessed horse stands nearby.

The wheel of a passing car.

The bottom of a tram car passing on the rails.

The rails bending under the weight of the trams.

The wheel of a cart.

A car passes through a puddle.

A loaded cart passes.

A car passes over potholes in the streets, car wheels.

A woman rinses laundry in the river near the bank.

A ship's anchor on the melting ice.

A paddle steamer frozen into the ice.

Men on the bank are tarring boats.

A woman rinses laundry.

Painting boats.

A woman carries away a bale of freshly washed laundry.

A painter paints a metal structure.

Ice explosion on the Dnieper.

Splitting ice floes, the beginning of ice drift (above).

Types of ice drift on the Dnieper, ice floes blowing up.

Spring flood of the Dnieper (above), melting ice floe.

A meteorologist on a tower makes observations.

Raising an anchor from the water.

The wind speed indicator is rotating.

A steamboat is sailing along the Dnieper (above).

Waves are running onto a sandy shore.

Dogs on the porch of a flooded house.

Flood in the suburbs of Kyiv, views and panoramas of flooded streets and houses.

Houses flooded up to the roof.

People are floating in a boat and leading a horse by the bridle.

Swimming geese.

People are moving in boats along flooded streets.

A woman is rowing an oar, sitting on the stern of a boat.

A dog is on the bow of a boat.

View of a flooded fence.

Children are swimming in barrels along streets flooded by the spring flood.

People are moving in boats.

View of a part of a block flooded during a flood.

Reflection of clouds in a puddle.

People on Vladimirskaya Hill in Kyiv are walking and sitting on benches.

Couples walking.

A woman is removing paper from a window frame.

A dovecote is opening.

Putting up a second frame in one of the windows.

A window is opening onto the street, a tram is passing along the street.

Sparrows are flying from a branch onto a bird feeder.

A woman is opening a window, a dog is looking out from the balcony.

The balcony doors are opening.

Children's faces in an open window.

A woman goes out onto the balcony and starts shaking out a blanket.

Women are washing windows.

A cat is on the windowsill of an open window, a dog is on the balcony.

A boy opens a vent and looks out, the face of a girl talking to a boy.

Children are playing on the asphalt, the faces of children.

A game of "hopscotch" (above).

Young pioneers are setting up a croquet pitch.

Teenagers are playing ball.

The faces of laughing children, a kitten playing with a ball.

A girl is walking on the asphalt.

Panorama of one of the apartment buildings.

Women are leading a little girl by the hands (above).

A puppy crawls out of hiding, a baby at the lawn fence.

Faces of laughing babies.

Puppies playing with each other.

A child climbs over the lawn fence.

A baby's face.

A girl rides on an iron gate.

A shadow from a line of human figures on the asphalt.

A sign at the entrance to the summer playground of the Young Pioneers Club of the Leninsky District of Kyiv, a pioneer installs a red flag above the entrance.

Pioneers in formation are counting in numerical order.

Faces of pioneers.

Pioneers in a standing position turn left.

An elderly woman is pushing a child in a stroller along the street, a boy is riding a tricycle.

A motorcyclist is riding along the street, a female passenger is sitting on the luggage rack.

A photographer's hand opens the lens, a visitor to a photo studio is posing behind the wheel of a fake car.

Housewives are going to the market.

The shadow of the fringe of an awning on the asphalt.

The legs of passers-by, people on one of the streets of the city.

View of a kiosk selling mineral water and juices.

Filling a glass with soda water from an auto siphon.

The face of a customer drinking water.

An ice cream seller at a cart.

A girl is buying ice cream, the girl's face.

Faces of girls licking ice cream.

The legs of passers-by on the sidewalk tiles.

A pioneer detachment with a banner, bugle and drum passes along the street (top).

Windows of a passing tram (bottom).

Feet of passers-by on the sidewalk tiles.

During a clean-up day, pioneers and schoolchildren prepare trees for the summer season, whitewash the trunks.

A gardener trims branches with pruning shears.

The face of a girl whitewashing a tree.

Replacing rotten sleepers on tram tracks.

Carrying out earthworks on tram tracks.

Production processes in a quarry and a brick factory.

Laying finished bricks on stretchers, faces of workers.

View of a part of a wall of a reinforced concrete plant under construction.

Mechanical feeding of bricks to builders.

Sifting sand through a mesh to prepare cement mortar.

Feeding a trolley with sand up to fill a concrete mixer.

Transportation of lumber.

Carpentry work at a construction site.

The finished mortar is poured into a bucket placed underneath.

Lifting a bucket of mortar up using an elevator.

Transporting a trolley with mortar.

Mechanical delivery of bricks to builders, a worker rolls a trolley along scaffolding.

Delivery of mortar to bricklayers.

Bricklayers lay bricks.

Carpenters at work.

Panorama and views of the construction of the Palace of Culture, scaffolding (combined photography).

Workers lay paving stones.

Workers at an asphalt vat.

Manual asphalt laying.

Work process in a quarry, a belt conveyor in operation.

Operation of stone crushing equipment at a reinforced concrete products plant, types of rotating units and assemblies.

Filling wheelbarrows with crushed stone.

Transportation of crushed stone in hand wheelbarrows.

Wheel of a moving asphalt roller, a worker emptying a wheelbarrow of crushed stone.

Cars speed away along an asphalt road.

The process of processing parts on machine tools.

The factory chimney smokes.

Open-hearth furnaces are lit (combined shooting).

Blacksmiths at work, faces of the blacksmiths.

Manufacturing cart wheels for seeding units.

New seeding units are rolled out of the forge gates, manufacturing a wheel.

The production process in the foundry.

The process of metal processing on machine tools.

Faces of the workers.

Bulletin of socialist competition on a rotating unit of a machine tool.

Workers at machine tools, faces of the workers, production processes of manufacturing various parts.

A fragment of the text of a report on the successes of socialist competition in a newspaper.

Faces of male and female workers.

Blacksmith processing metal, forging process (combined shooting).

Metal processing processes at one of the industrial enterprises, metal shavings coming out from under the cutter.

Installation of engines on tractors on the factory conveyor.

A tracked tractor overcomes obstacles.

A wheeled tractor drives in a circle, the tractor driver jumps onto the seat on the move (slow motion filming).

Receiving sacks of seed grain at a warehouse.

A stack of sacks of seed grain.

Tractors are heading for spring plowing (combined shooting).

Wheels of a steam locomotive starting to move.

Wheeled and tracked tractors are heading out for spring plowing.

Transportation of tractors and agricultural machinery on railway platforms, the wheels of a steam locomotive are spinning.

View of a train with agricultural machinery and tractors on platforms.

View of wagon wheels and the lower part of the wagons, view of the train from above.

Swelling buds on tree branches.

Buds on willow branches.

Rooks on branches and nests.

A snail crawls up a tree trunk, the head of a snail.

A snail climbs a stump.

Faces of girls walking in the park.

A girl walks along accompanied by two Red Army soldiers.

Birds on the branches of a tree growing near a multi-story residential building.

Eggs in a nest, birds sit on nests and branches.

Soldiers walk through the park, talk to a girl.

Pigeons on the roof of a house, snails on a stump.

Faces of young people walking in the park.

A butterfly on a flower.

Young people meet girls in the park.

Flowers are blooming (slow motion).

Spring flowers in a meadow.

Flowering bushes.

Young trees bend from the wind.

A bee on a flower, bees at the entrance of a hive.

Life of awakened insects - bees, ants, beetles.

Faces of girls watching chicks in the nest, chicks in the nest with open beaks.

Rooks on their nests.

Doves sitting on the cornice.

Geese on the street.

Piglets digging the ground near a pole.

Geese drinking from a waterer, piglets sucking a sow.

Pelicans in the zoo.

Crawling turtle, foliage on a tree.

Turtle crawling into the shade of foliage.

Polar bears in a cage, a goose standing on one leg.

Head of a chewing camel, monkey in a cage.

Owl and monkeys in zoo cages, faces of children watching animals.

Child on man's shoulders, zoo pets in cages.

Leopards and lions rushing about in cages, faces of roaring lions and leopards.

Various animals in cages and enclosures.

Faces of children.

Crying baby in arms.

Children playing near the fountain in the zoo.

The face of a girl rocking a baby in her arms.

The face of a baby with a pacifier in its mouth.

Blooming flowers.

The shadow of a tree on the ground.

The branches of trees and bushes sway in the wind.

View of a field with sprouted wheat, ears of wheat sway in the wind.

Elevator sign, view of a part of the elevator wall.

Automatic transportation of bags of grain inside the elevator, the process of winnowing seed grain.

Filling bags with seed grain.

View of a construction crane.

View of a model of an Orthodox church.

Elderly women talking to each other.

A hand wipes dust from a model of the church.

The women continue their conversation.

Panorama of the domes of an Orthodox church.

Bells in the belfry.

Easter egg on a saucer.

The bell ringer strikes the bell.

The bells in the belfry ring.

Meat processing equipment in operation at a meat-packing plant.

Sausages on sale.

Fish on a plate.

Manufacturing of meat and fish products.

Sausage stuffing process (slow motion).

Easter egg on a saucer.

Types of Easter cakes.

Bell ringers ring the bells.

Views of the May Day demonstration in Kyiv.

View of part of the demonstration on Khreshchatyk (above).

Faces of the May Day demonstration participants in Kyiv.

Demonstrators with banners and posters are riding in the back of a truck, bell ringers in the bell tower are ringing the bells.

Faces of children.

View of the May Day demonstration (top).

Athletes walk along the cobblestones (top).

A column of cyclists walks, leading their bicycles by the handlebars.

Female athletes walk.

View of the stadium during the sports festival (top) and a panorama of the city (combined shooting).

Fragments of a football match, faces of fans, a flying ball.

Cyclists ride along the path of the park.

Female athletes perform floor exercises synchronously on the stadium field.

View of one of the stands of the stadium.

Cyclists ride around the stadium, demonstrating synchronous cycling.

View of the stadium during the cyclists' performance (top).

A cyclist performing an acrobatic trick.

Spectators watch the cyclists' performance.

Solo performance of one of the cyclists, faces of the spectators.

A game of volleyball.

Basketball game, throwing the ball into the basket (top).

Citizens in a state of alcoholic intoxication on one of the outskirts of the city.

Women separate men who fought.

Drunk street fight between men and women.

Clergymen pass by the fighters.

A policeman takes a violator of public order to the police station.

A drunk man walks down the street waving his arms.

Motorcycle racing on the track, faces of fans, motorcycle wheels and controls.

An athlete performs a dive (fast motion).

Faces of applauding fans.

A football player with a ball.

The legs of a drunk man walking with difficulty along the pavement.

Faces of girls applauding the athletes.

Performing various exercises on the horizontal bar during a sports festival.

A cyclist rides by.

A gymnast jumps over a horse.

Competitions in various track and field sports - pole vaulting, cycling, diving.

A cyclist performs acrobatic tricks on the move, rides backwards, faces of spectators.

Playing volleyball on one of the sports grounds.

A cyclist, sitting on the handlebars of a bicycle, plays the accordion, faces of spectators, young people begin to dance to the accordion.

Faces of the accordionist, dancing girls and spectators.

People drink soda water after the dance, faces of the holiday participants.

Girls whirl in a dance, legs of the dancers, faces of spectators, fingers of the accordionist on the keys.

The accordionist plays, sitting on the handlebars of a moving bicycle, faces of spectators and a dancing girl, an airplane in the sky performs aerobatics.

The sun shines through the clouds.