Celebration of the 70th anniversary of I.V. Stalin in the USSR and abroad (1949)

Participants in the ceremonial meeting in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in honor of the 70th birthday of I.V. Stalin and members of the presidium rise from their seats and applaud.

Participants in the meeting take their seats.

Vyshinsky A. Ya. speaks from the rostrum, faces of participants in the ceremonial meeting listening to Vyshinsky’s speech.

View of the meeting hall, portrait of Stalin above the presidium table.

Vyshinsky continues his speech.

Faces of applauding participants in the meeting.

Academician I.V. Kurchatov among the applauding members of the presidium.

Applauding participants in the meeting.

A sheet of paper on a flip calendar with the date December 21 and an inscription about the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s birthday.

A teacher enters one of the classrooms of a girls’ school, the students stand up.

The teacher congratulates the girls on Stalin’s anniversary.

The students sit down at their desks.

Faces of the students sitting at their desks.

One of the girls at the blackboard reads poems in honor of Stalin.

The faces of a girl and her classmates reciting poetry.

A teacher listening to a poetry reading.

A view of a classroom.

A view of part of the Stalin Museum building in Gori.

A view of Stalin’s wooden house-museum in Solvychegodsk, where he lived in 1912 during his exile.

A memorial plaque on the wall of the house.

The interior of the room where Stalin lived.

A kerosene lamp on the table.

Stalin’s bed.

A monument to Stalin next to the museum.

A portrait of Stalin on the wall of the house-museum in Vologda.

A tour of one of the museum halls.

The guide tells about Stalin’s exile in Vologda.

People listen to the guide.

Pictures depicting Stalin’s time in exile, faces of museum visitors.

The presidium of one of the ceremonial meetings in honor of Stalin’s 70th birthday.

Faces of the meeting participants.

A participant in the revolution and civil war speaks from the podium, the meeting participants listen to his speech.

The meeting participants applaud.

A view of part of the meeting hall.

Collective farmers travel in trucks to a ceremonial event to mark Stalin's 70th birthday.

A festive demonstration at the central estate of one of the collective farms.

People gather for a ceremonial rally, the collective farm chairman greets district leaders.

Faces of the ceremonial rally participants.

View of the rally.

One of the speakers speaks from the podium, faces of the rally participants.

Rally participants applaud.

Panorama of part of the rally (from above).

People enter a post office building in the Rostov region.

People at the counter fill out telegraph forms.

The Maltsev family writes a congratulatory message to Stalin on a telegraph form, the text of a congratulatory flash telegram.

Telegraph tape with the text of the congratulatory message, female telegraph employees at work.

Texts of congratulatory telegrams.

Collective farmers and military personnel fill out congratulatory telegram forms.

A man hands a form through the post office window.

A female post office employee accepts a telegram.

View of the post office hall, people filling out telegraph forms.

View of the bay in Murmansk, a warship in the bay.

View of a mountain slope with an obelisk with a memorial plaque about Stalin's stay in July 1933. Inscription on the memorial plaque.

Navy sailors in the guard of honor at the obelisk.

Faces of sailors and officers, a political officer speaking at a ceremonial rally.

Launches of flares from a ship.

The ship's captain speaking to the crew at a ceremonial rally in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday.

Faces of the crew members.

The crew members light flares, one of the sailors turns the side searchlight.

A house in one of the villages, decorated with electric illumination, workers of the lump shop applaud during a ceremonial rally.

People read newspapers and magazines in one of the village libraries.

Collective farmers sing to the accompaniment of an accordion during a festive concert.

Faces of applauding women.

The streets of Prague, festively decorated for Stalin's 70th birthday.

The speaker speaks from the rostrum.

Plates with the names of Czechoslovakia's districts.

Czechoslovak President Gottwald K. at a ceremonial rally.

Applauding rally participants (panorama).

Stalin's portrait in Warsaw decorated with red banners.

Polish President Bierut B. and his entourage walk to the unveiling ceremony of a memorial obelisk in honor of Soviet-Polish friendship.

Bierut removes the veil from the obelisk.

The inscription on the obelisk is in Polish.

A queue at the USSR embassy in Warsaw to receive gifts and flowers in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday.

A woman presents a Soviet diplomat with a bouquet of flowers.

Soviet diplomats accept congratulations.

Electric festive illumination on the streets of Moscow, people with burning torches in their hands in city squares.

Panorama of a square filled with people during the celebration of Stalin's 70th birthday (top).

Festive electric illumination on the facade of one of Moscow's buildings.