According to the precepts of V.I. Lenin. Domestic newsreel of the 1920-1930s (1920-1939)

Columns of the May Day demonstration of 1929 on the streets of Moscow, banners with slogans above the columns.

View of one of the Moscow streets during the May Day demonstration.

Komsomol members participating in the demonstration dance in a circle and dance during a stop of the column.

A soldier dances in a circle of demonstrators, a Red Navy sailor joins him.

One of the columns of the demonstration passes by, the demonstrators carry on poles caricature portraits and heads of violators of labor discipline made of papier-mâché, slogans in support of collectivization.

Orchestra members play, sitting in the back of a truck, a female choir in the back of another truck performs a song to the accompaniment of the orchestra, a panorama of a part of the square with one of the columns of the demonstration.

Representatives of labor collectives walk along Red Square with banners of Moscow enterprises.

View of the columns of the demonstration.

View of Red Square during the May Day demonstration.

Views and panoramas of parts of Red Square during the demonstration.

Stalin I.V. and Molotov V.M. The participants of the demonstration are greeted from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Slogans, posters and models with diagrams above the columns of the May Day demonstration.

Young Pioneers in naval uniforms march in formation on both sides of a model of a warship moving along Red Square.

A model of a steam locomotive passes through Red Square, followed by Young Pioneers in white uniforms.

A column of representatives of the OSOAVIAKhIM of the Baumansky District of Moscow with rifles on their shoulders and a model of the "Voroshilov Sharpshooter" badge on bicycle wheels passes through Red Square.

Participants in the evening demonstration carry portraits of the leaders of the USSR and the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) across Red Square.

A performance by one of the amateur art groups of the USSR Navy, performing a sailor dance.

Evening festive illumination and fireworks in the sky of Moscow.

Night fireworks in the sky, people riding boats.

Automobile traffic in the city at night in the early 1930s, people crossing the street in front of passing cars.

People at the entrance to the theater.

Glowing electric advertising of Moscow stores, theater and movie posters, trams on the streets of Moscow.

Views of the Moskva River at night.

A sign with the name of the Dynamo plant in Moscow.

Visual propaganda with data on the fulfillment of the plan on the wall of one of the buildings.

Goods in the window of a hardware store.

Cars and pedestrians on the streets of Moscow, the legs of pedestrians.

People enter the store in small groups, an employee of the store at the door controls the number of customers entering.

A train passes over the bridge over Kalanchevskaya Square, trams pass under the bridge.

Faces of people going up in an elevator.

A girl is talking on the phone.

Telephone operators at the station connect subscribers.

People are talking on the phones.

The production process of wire drawing.

Kaganovich L.M., Kirov S.M., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Kalinin M.I., Stalin and Voroshilov during a meeting (panorama).

People at the entrance to the theater.

View of a part of the theater foyer, people going inside.

Preparation of scenery for the evening performance, ballerinas backstage.

Mirror on the theater stairs.

Spectators leave their outerwear in the cloakroom.

Busts of Marx, Lenin and Engels in the library reading room.

People reading newspapers.

View of a building and an industrial enterprise on the embankment of the Moskva River.

People playing chess in a club.

A man with a boy on his lap catches a radio wave, sitting at a vacuum tube radio.

Loudspeaker horns on a pole near the Pushkin monument on Tverskoy Boulevard, people studying in the library reading room, hearing a radio broadcast off-screen.

Open window of the reading room.

Manufacturing artillery ammunition.

Shells exploding on the front line.

A heavy gun firing.

Young Pioneers nail a portrait of Lenin to a banner.

Children from a kindergarten build a mausoleum out of blocks and install red flags on it.

View of Lenin's wooden mausoleum on Red Square.

A toy mausoleum built by children out of blocks.

Faces of little children in Budyonnovkas standing as an honor guard at the toy mausoleum, including a black boy.

Changing young sentries at their post.

Faces of children.

A worker in the iron foundry puts on a protective mask.

Founders at the furnaces, production processes.

Smoke from the factory chimneys, issuance of cast iron melts.

Publication of Taras Shevchenko's poems "Kobzar" in Ukrainian, 1939. Operation of the automatic conveyor for feeding books from the storage room to the library reading room.

Issuance of books to readers.

View of the reading room, people reading literature at the tables.

Panorama of the central part of Moscow in 1933-1934 (top).

View of a part of the Moskva River embankment (top).

Battlements of the Kremlin wall (panorama).

Views of Moscow's neighborhoods and buildings in the evening, electric illumination (top).

Lenin's body in the mausoleum in a glass sarcophagus, views of the sarcophagus from different angles.

People leaving the institution onto the street.

A column of people moving along Red Square to the first wooden mausoleum in February-March 1924. Faces of people passing by.

People on Red Square in front of the mausoleum.

Badges with Lenin's portrait.

Police and OGPU officers control the entrance to the mausoleum.

A column of workers in front of the entrance to the first wooden mausoleum.

People walk past a sentry into the mausoleum, view of the queue into the mausoleum.

Guards relieved from their posts walk past with a guard on duty.

People entering the mausoleum.

A guard at the exit from the mausoleum, people leaving.

People joining the queue to enter the mausoleum.

Faces of the participants in the funeral meeting, people standing up.

Lenin's portrait on the Kremlin wall near the second wooden mausoleum.

People on Red Square in front of the mausoleum on the anniversary of Lenin's death in January 1925. Panorama of Red Square.

The military entering the mausoleum, people waiting to enter, the military leaving the mausoleum.

Changing of the guard at the mausoleum.

Faces of peasants.

People entering the mausoleum (above).

Faces of people entering the mausoleum.

One of the peasant delegations entering the mausoleum.

Changing of the guards at the post at the mausoleum.

People leaving the mausoleum.

Faces of peasant women before visiting the mausoleum.

One of the delegations entering the Spassky Gate.

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

View of Red Square and the Mausoleum during the November 7th parade in the 1930s.

Students of military academies march across Red Square.

Airplanes fly over Red Square during one of the May Day parades.

Stalin on the Mausoleum tribune among guests.

A combined brass band marches in front of the Mausoleum after the military parade.

Airplanes fly over the Historical Museum building.

Machine-gun carts pass in front of the Mausoleum.

Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M. on the Mausoleum tribune.

Armored cars drive across Red Square.

View of part of Red Square as rifle units in trucks pass in front of the Mausoleum (above).

Stalin greets the troops from the Mausoleum tribune; trucks with infantry drive along one of the Moscow streets toward Red Square (above).

A car drives away from the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Crematorium employees at the furnace on October 6, 1927. Opening the crematorium furnace and removing a container with ashes from it.

A crematorium employee seals an urn with ashes to give to relatives.

Glowing windows of the House of Culture in Arkhangelsk, silhouettes of people in the windows.

The lights in the auditorium come on, views and interiors of the hall.

Wooden rows of chairs in the hall.

People hand in their outerwear to the cloakroom, a cloakroom attendant takes galoshes from a man.

People enter the House of Culture.

Handing out galoshes at the cloakroom.

A man with a child enters the House of Culture.

People hand in their outerwear to the cloakroom.

People enter the auditorium and take their seats.

Hall lighting.

People enter the auditorium.

A radio station employee inspects the equipment.

Radio station equipment, control instrument scales.

View of one of the radio station halls with the equipment located in it (from above).

A radio station employee puts on headphones.

Adjusting the volume on the control panel.

The announcer in front of the microphone begins a gymnastics lesson.

View of a radio mast (bottom to top).

A hand turns the tuning knobs of a radio receiver.

Mountain landscape.

A loudspeaker pipe on a pole.

A border guard on patrol on the slope of a hill observes through binoculars.

Industrial landscape.

A bucket of mortar being lowered.

Concrete work during the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in 1929-1931, pouring concrete into the reinforcement.

Boots and faces of workers trampling down a layer of concrete mortar.

Panorama of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

View of the upper part of the Lenin Museum building in the former City Duma building in 1935. Visitors climb the main staircase of the museum.

Sculptural and painted portraits of Lenin at the age of four.

A guide tells the pioneers about Lenin.

A photograph of Volodya Ulyanov taken in 1879 while studying at the gymnasium.

A graphic portrait of Lenin in the museum exhibition.

Visitors listen to the guide.

A sculpture of Lenin speaking from an armored car.

A fragment of the museum exhibition.

A photograph of Lenin and Stalin in Gorki in 1922. Newspaper headlines from the museum collection with notices of Lenin’s death.

View of the Hall of Mourning Banners.

Visitors examine the exhibits in the Hall of Mourning Banners.

Military personnel on the tribune before the parade on Red Square on November 7, 1922. A unit of the Red Army in parade formation.

The face of one of the commanders.

Kamenev L.B. speaks from the tribune.

The cameraman loads the film.

Units of the Red Army march along Red Square.

View of the tribune, under the tribune are the leaders of the Soviet state greeting the troops, among them is Kamenev.

A military brass band plays.

Troops march along Red Square.

Faces of the musicians of the militia brass band.

Cavalry on Red Square.

A military brass band plays.

Artillery passes by on a tractor.

The face of a drummer.

A unit of the Vsevobuch unit passes by.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

View of one of the buildings of the Moscow Kremlin, cabbies pass by.

Japanese revolutionary Sen Katayama and Kalinin M.I. during the parade on Red Square.

Stalin I.V. during the parade on Red Square on November 7, 1922. Cavalry marches across Red Square.

A horse artillery unit on Red Square.

Tractor-drawn artillery drives across the square.

Wheeled and tracked armored vehicles drive across Red Square, followed by a column of Red Army soldiers.

A view of part of Red Square during the parade and a sculpture of a worker at the Kremlin Wall.

Sculptors in a workshop working on a bust of Lenin.

Sculptors measure the proportions of the faces of finished busts.

A sculptor at work.

Types of sculptures of Lenin.

Sculptors working on a statue of Lenin.

Faces of participants in the demonstration on November 7, 1924 in Moscow, walking in a continuous column along the streets of the city (panorama).

A brass band from one of the Moscow enterprises walks along the street.

Panorama of the faces of the demonstration participants walking in columns.

Design engineers, architects, and party workers who participated in the construction of the first Moscow metro stations descend the escalator on the day the Moscow metro was launched on October 15, 1934. Among them are L. M. Kaganovich, N. S. Khrushchev, and N. A. Bulganin.

People descend the escalator, waving their hands in greeting.

A lesson in a children's art studio, young sculptors working on Lenin figures.

The face of a female teacher.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin in 1923. The monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in front of the GUM building.

A tram enters Red Square past the Spassky Gate.

Panorama of the GUM buildings, Kazan Cathedral, Iversky Gate, Historical Museum, and part of the Moscow Kremlin wall.

View of the wooden mausoleum on Red Square.

Loudspeaker pipes on a pole.

People's faces on the streets listening to the radio.

People on the escalators of the Moscow metro in 1935. Legs of passengers getting off the escalator.

A metro employee in uniform at the escalator, passengers getting off the escalator.

Metro passengers on the escalator.

A boarding sign for metro trains.

Cars of the Afghan delegation approach the mausoleum in May 1928. Karakhan L.M., Afghan padishah Amanullah Khan and their entourage exit the car.

Members of the Afghan delegation and Soviet diplomats head to the mausoleum to lay a wreath on the sarcophagus with Lenin's body.

View of part of Red Square, people standing by the Spasskaya Tower.

Afghan diplomats walk to the mausoleum.

Diplomats enter the mausoleum.

Flags of the USSR and Afghanistan on the hood of the car.

Car in front of the mausoleum, Amanullah Khan and his entourage exit the mausoleum after laying a wreath, Amanullah Khan, Kalinin M.I., Karakhan L.M. and the diplomats accompanying them get into the car and drive away.

View of a film projector.

The projectionist's hands removing the film from the box.

Loading the film projector.

Opening the curtain.

The arc of the film projector lamp lights up.

The projectionist adjusts the arc of the projector lamp, starts the film.

The conductor waves his arms.

The musicians of the orchestra play musical instruments, the musicians' faces.

View of the orchestra.

The toothed drum of the film projector's tape mechanism rotates.

The conductor leads the orchestra.

View of the first wooden Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square in late January-February 1924. View of the entrance to the second wooden mausoleum.

People enter the mausoleum, exit the mausoleum.

View of the lower part of the American airship.

Views of the airship gondola.

Views of the airship in flight.

Views of the night demonstration on Red Square in the rays of searchlights in 1934, Stalin I.V. and Kirov S.M. on the mausoleum tribune.

Molotov V.M. speaks from the rostrum at the next meeting of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), with Rudzutak Ya.E., Postyshev P.P., Kalinin M.I., Voroshilov K.E., Kirov S.M., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Mikoyan A.I. sitting in the presidium behind him.

Budyonny S.M. dances in front of the congress delegates during a break in the meeting.

The face of Stalin smoking a pipe.

A girl is sleeping on a bench on one of Moscow's boulevards.

The lens of a movie camera, the legs of a sleeping girl.

The girl gets up from the bench and runs away.

View of one of Moscow's squares (from above), trams on the square.

View of part of the glass display case of "Mostorg" in 1928. Tram and pedestrian traffic at one of the intersections (from above).

A cameraman with a camera on his shoulder walks past movie theater posters.

View of a smoking factory chimney (from bottom to top), the face of a stoker working at the firebox.

Trams and buses pass an intersection (from above).

A cameraman with a case over his shoulder climbs onto a factory chimney using brackets.

Hands turning on the switch for the electric current and opening the valve.

A worker sets the mechanism in motion.

Passengers exit onto the station square.

Cabbies waiting for passengers.

A cameraman films cabbies passing by.

Participants in a memorial meeting on the balcony of a building.

Faces of the rally participants.

A woman speaks at a meeting.

A banner with a slogan above the heads of the protesters.

Faces of the rally participants.

Views of Red Square and the mausoleum during the memorial meeting.

The German airship "Graf Zeppelin" during a flight in 1930. Airplanes accompanying the airship during the flight.

A Moscow street child rides a tram, clinging to the hook.

The hands of a tram driver.

Views of Moscow streets in 1928. Stamps with the image of Lenin.

A post office employee stamping letters.

Weighing a registered letter.

The face of a girl, stamping letters.

View of the post office hall (top).

Telegraph operators at work at the devices.

The face of a telegraph employee, the process of transmitting telegrams, the operation of transmitting equipment.

View of part of a Moscow block (top).

People on the bell tower watch the flight of the Graf Zeppelin airship over Moscow in September 1930. View of a flying airship.

A woman watches the flight of an airship.

The airship flies over the streets of Moscow.

Airplanes meeting the airship.

View of part of an airplane wing and a flying airship.

The airship flies over the Triumphal Arch.

Proposed view of the Palace of Soviets building against the backdrop of Moscow squares and the Moscow River (combined photography).

Views of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction in 1928-1931. Concrete work during construction.

View of part of the formwork.

Workers compact a layer of concrete mortar with their feet, transportation of concrete in trolleys.

Legs and faces of workers compacting concrete, view of part of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam under construction.

View of a rally (from above).

Model of the designed monument to Lenin on the tower of the Palace of Soviets.

Architect Boris Iofan tells visitors to the exhibition about the dimensions of the future building of the Palace of Soviets.

The face of a metallurgist.

Part of the production process in a metallurgical plant workshop.

A train with metal structures on platforms passes by.

The doctors treating Lenin leave the building after a consultation on March 21, 1923. The doctors get into a car.

The car starts moving.

People on one of Moscow's boulevards on April 1, 1923, during the Red Willow celebration.

Trade from stalls.

People at a lottery kiosk (top).

People on the tiers of GUM (panorama from bottom to top).

People on one of the floors of GUM before the artists' performance.

View of the stage set up on one of GUM's floors, comic acrobats performing on the stage.

Performance of an acrobatic duet (top).

Spectators on one of GUM's floors.

The face of a performing comic actor.

Magazines and books on the shelves of the library of the Lenin Institute of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Visitors to the reading room of the Lenin Institute take notes from magazines and books in 1927. Magazines on the table.

Researchers at work, faces of researchers taking notes, view of part of the reading room of the Lenin Institute.

Reading room staff serving researchers.

One of the researchers filling out a claim form.

Sending a box with requirements to the storage facility using a conveyor, an employee accepting requirements from a visitor.

Delivering a box with books to the reading room, the hands of an employee opening the box and looking through the books.

View of the wall of the fourteen-story tower of the book depository of the Lenin Institute.

Books on the shelves of the seventh and eighth tiers of the storage facility.

Views of parts and mechanisms of the book feed conveyor.

Turning the handle to start the conveyor.

The conveyor in operation delivering boxes.

An employee takes requirements out of the box, arranges them.

An employee receives requirements and enters the elevator.

Books on the shelves of the storage facility.

An employee exits the elevator with a stack of books.

The door to the storage facility containing Lenin’s original documents.

Passage to the storage facility.

An archive employee opens the storage facility door.

Safes with documents in the storage facility.

Safe doors.

An employee opens the safe and takes out one of the files of the Lenin Foundation.

An employee demonstrates Lenin’s original manuscripts, which are in the file.

Files with documents on the shelves of the safe.

A sculpture of Lenin in the lobby of the Lenin Museum building on Bolshaya Dmitrovka.

A stand with photographs of Lenin on display at the museum.

Faces of museum visitors.

A stand with photographs dedicated to the assassination attempt on Lenin on August 30, 1918, and Lenin's recovery.

The Browning pistol from which Kaplan shot Lenin, on display at the museum.

Faces of museum visitors.

Fragments of the museum's display.

A funeral wreath sent by Kharkov workers.

Visitors examining Lenin's death mask.

View of Lenin's death mask and casts of his hands on display at the museum.

Faces of schoolchildren.

A model of Lenin's mausoleum.

Members of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee commission for organizing Lenin's funeral at the first wooden mausoleum on Red Square (panorama), including V.A. Gerson, V.M. Molotov, A.S. Yenukidze, F.E. Dzerzhinsky, L.B. Krasin, B. Kun, A.Ya.

Belenky.

The queue to the mausoleum in February 1924. The face of cupola-maker V. Gorbatov, who joined the RCP(b) at Lenin's call.

The faces of metallurgical workers at work.

View of oil rigs.

The process of oil production at one of the oil fields.

Testing electromagnetic equipment at an enterprise in the early 1930s.

Turning on the power supply switch.

A hand turns the rheostat handle.

The voltmeter scale needle rises in an arc.

An engineer connects the wiring.

Glowing windows of the building.

The sun shines from behind the clouds.

Production processes at a power plant.

Chubar V. Ya. in the honor guard at the coffin of V. I. Lenin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in January 1924. Faces of a girl and a boy standing in the honor guard.

Faces of members of one of the funeral delegations.

Clara Zetkin wipes away tears with a handkerchief.

Lenin in the coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Faces of schoolchildren passing by the coffin with Lenin's body.

Kalinin M. I. in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin.

Kalinin's face.

People on the streets of Moscow during the days of farewell to Lenin, columns of mourning delegations on the streets, a square filled with people.

Views of a working electric winch.

Red Army soldiers of one of the air defense units adjust and bring into combat position a searchlight to illuminate air targets.

The platoon commander directs the actions of the gunner.

View of a rotating searchlight.

Production processes in a metallurgical plant workshop.

Smoke from the factory chimney.

Zinoviev G.E., Radek K.B. and members of the presidium of the meeting of the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in September 1920 applaud during the opening of the congress.

Publications of the works of Lunacharsky A.V. Lunacharsky at his desk.

Lunacharsky among the delegates of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1927. Lunacharsky's arrival at one of the pavilions of the Leningrad film factory in 1930. Lunacharsky petting a dog while sitting at the table.

Lunacharsky puts on his hat and leaves.

Lunacharsky comes to the podium during a session of the Academy of Sciences in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in 1931, laying out sheets of paper with the theses of his speech.

Lunacharsky delivers a report from the podium on the problems of Soviet art, on its difference from bourgeois art and on its ideological background, on the partisanship of proletarian art (synchronously).

A flying model airplane.

Young Pioneers watch the flight of the model.

A squadron of airplanes in flight.

An I-5 fighter in flight.

A heavy bomber in flight.

Carrying the coffin with Lenin's body through the streets of Moscow to Red Square for a mourning rally on the day of Lenin's burial in the mausoleum on January 27, 1924. A mourning demonstration moves through the streets of Moscow.

Views of the mourning demonstration on Red Square on January 27, 1924. View of the platform with Lenin's coffin installed on it on Red Square during the funeral meeting.

Commanders and Red Army soldiers of one of the units in formation near the banner.

The face of N.K. Krupskaya (in profile).

Panorama of part of the funeral meeting (from above).

Evdokimov G.E. delivers a speech, Zinoviev, Voroshilov K.E. stand on the platform nearby, views of the funeral meeting.

Kalinin and Rykov A.I. on the platform during Evdokimov's speech.

The banner on the lid of Lenin's coffin.

A banner with a slogan in the hands of rally participants.

Views of the funeral demonstration on Red Square on the day of Lenin's funeral.

Red Army soldiers and residents of Moscow warm themselves by fires lit on the city streets during the days of farewell to Lenin.

View of part of the funeral demonstration on January 27, 1924. Panorama of part of the funeral meeting on Red Square (from above).

Sentries in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin on the platform, the face of the sentry standing at the entrance to the platform.

Funeral wreaths at the wall of the temporary wooden mausoleum, the coffin with Lenin's body on the platform (combined shooting).

The dispatcher at the control panel of the radio station.

Testing the vacuum tube equipment.

The engineer turns on the power switches.

Checking the equipment.

Workers of the Glukhovo district in Bogorodsk go to a rally to unveil the Lenin monument on January 22, 1924. Children walk to the rally.

Panorama and view of part of the rally.

The speaker speaks from the rostrum.

Panorama of part of the rally (above).

A brass band plays.

Panorama and views of the rally, another speaker speaks from the rostrum.

Removing the veil from the statue of Lenin.

A brass band plays.

The speaker speaks from the rostrum.

View of the unveiled monument to Lenin.

Panorama of part of the rally (above).

The speaker on the rostrum.

Faces of schoolchildren.

A girl speaks from the rostrum.

View of the pedestal of the monument.

The statue of Lenin on the pedestal.

Opening the piston breech of the 305 mm howitzer model 1915. Raising the howitzer barrel.

The process of loading and closing the howitzer breech, the artilleryman turns the breech handle.

The process of opening the breech.

View of Red Square during the May Day parade of 1935, tanks drive across the square, an ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" plane flies over Red Square.

View of Red Square in 1927-1929 (top).

Presentation of the Red Banner to shock workers of production, girls congratulate each other.

A sculptor in his workshop working on a figurine of Lenin.

A sculptor works on a statue of Lenin, an assistant unfolds the base of the statue.

An animated film dedicated to the policy of the RCP(b), the growth of its ranks.

The face of a worker.

Hands clasped in a handshake.

A worker and a peasant shake hands, symbolizing the link between the city and the village.

View of the carriages and wheels of a passing train (bottom).

Silhouette of a statue of Lenin against the sky.

Faces of pilots and spectators watching the flights of aircraft during the aviation festival in Tushino on August 18, 1935. Parachutists leave the plane.

The first Soviet autogyro A-7 in flight, faces of pilots watching the flight of the autogyro.

View of a large generator during testing.

Rotating part of the generator.

Engineers monitor the instrument readings.

One of the engineers gives commands by telephone.

Generator control from the control panel.

Engineers at the control panel.

A pilot at the controls of the Maxim Gorky plane.

Faces of relatives of the victims of the Maxim Gorky plane crash in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

The Maxim Gorky plane and a squadron of fighters in flight.

The text of the decree on the construction of aircraft for the Maxim Gorky squadron, published in the newspaper.

Stalin I.V. on the tribune of the mausoleum watches the planes flying over Red Square.

A squadron of airplanes flies by.

Views of Moscow at night, electric lighting of the city and illumination.

A working fountain.

Views of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and St.

Basil's Cathedral.

The monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square opposite the GUM building in 1925-1929. View of Lenin's wooden mausoleum.

Speech by a delegate to the Fifth Congress of the Comintern in June-July 1924. Zinoviev G.E. at the presidium table of the Fifth Congress of the Comintern, workers with banners behind Zinoviev, Bulgarian delegate V. Kolarov sits next to Zinoviev.

One of the Moscow workers greets the German proletariat.

Representatives of the Krasny Putilovets plant with a banner intended for delivery to workers of the Krupp plants.

Congress delegates during a regular meeting.

Blasting operations at the construction site of the mausoleum on Red Square in January 1924. Digging a pit for the mausoleum.

Night work on the construction of the mausoleum, funeral delegations pass by the coffin with Lenin's body, installed in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Navy sailors in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin.

Young Pioneers stand in the honor guard.

The hands of the sculptor Merkurov, creating Lenin's death mask.

Stalin I.V., Zinoviev G.E., Tomsky M.P., Kalinin M.I., Rudzutak Ya.E., Molotov V.M., Kirov S.M., Rykov A.I., Krupskaya N.K., Ulyanova M.I. at Lenin's coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Lenin in the coffin.

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

Employees of the Column Hall of the House of Unions and the honor guard during the meeting of the coffin with Lenin's body in the foyer of the Column Hall.

Funeral wreaths and banners are carried up the main staircase.

The coffin with Lenin's body is carried up the stairs to the Column Hall, the coffin is carried by Kalinin, Bukharin N.I., Tomsky, Kamenev L.B., Stalin, Belenky A.Ya.

The coffin is carried into the Column Hall.

Lashevich M.M. stands by the coffin and supervises the arrangement of funeral wreaths.

Funeral decoration of the Column Hall, the coffin with Lenin's body, installed in the hall.

Lenin in a coffin in a glass sarcophagus, views of the sarcophagus from different angles, Lenin's head and hands.

Panorama around the sarcophagus with Lenin's coffin.

Earthworks and concrete works during the construction of industrial enterprises of the First Five-Year Plan in 1928-1932. Tying metal reinforcement before pouring concrete.

The process of shooting a feature film on the set, the cameraman is filming from an overhead platform.

Director Dovzhenko A.P. is supervising the filming of the next scene.

The actors are depicting a fight between the Reds and the Whites.

A view of a part of the wall of one of the Moscow buildings.

A traffic controller at a crossroads.

A view of one of the new buildings.

The cameraman turns the camera handle, opens the lens diaphragm.

The name of the Hammer and Sickle plant above the factory gates.

The faces of people greeting airplanes flying by.

Airplanes in flight.

Steam is escaping from the factory whistle, a view from the cockpit of a bomber.

Pioneer buglers give a signal.

A woman is washing herself under the washstand.

A view of the carbon dioxide purification devices in operation.

A working compressor.

The process of obtaining dry ice.

Measuring the temperature of the obtained dry ice.

Thermometer scale.

Melting of ordinary ice at a temperature of zero degrees.

Extraction of a finished piece of dry ice obtained in industrial conditions.

View of the building.

A hand turns on the switch.

Toothed wheels and belt drives begin to rotate.

The process of manufacturing metal utensils by stamping.

Making a solution, a concrete mixer rotates.

Rolling away the finished solution in hand trucks.

View of scaffolding.

A delegate to the 3rd International Women's Communist Conference speaks at one of the meetings in 1924. View of the conference hall; delegates applaud while sitting at the tables. V. Kasparova delivers a report on the work of the International Women's Secretariat of the ECCI in the East.

Speech by N.K. Krupskaya at the conference.

View of a rally in one of the shops of the Stalin Plant in December 1934 (from above).

Faces of workers participating in the rally.

One of the speakers speaks from the rostrum.

Faces of workers listening to the speaker.

An elderly worker speaks from the rostrum.

Participants in the rally vote for the adoption of the resolution, raised hands of voting workers.

Views of the conference hall, faces of the speakers.

Sculpture of Lenin in the conference hall.

A stand with posters and a wall newspaper about the implementation of the resolutions of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) by the workers of the Moscow Electrical Plant in 1928. Bust of Lenin in the Red Corner of the plant.

Meeting of the party committee of the plant.

The secretary of the party committee of the plant speaks, the participants of the meeting ask questions, faces of the participants of the meeting.

A stand with a graph of the growth of party ranks at the plant.

View of a part of Okhotny Ryad Street in Moscow in 1935. Airplanes fly over Red Square, a man looks at the planes through binoculars.

A model of the Order of Lenin at the head of the column of the May Day demonstration in Moscow, views of columns passing through the streets.

Voroshilov K.E., Stalin I.V., Dimitrov G.M., Kalinin M.I., Chubar V.Ya. on the tribune of the mausoleum.

The faces of Voroshilov and Stalin.

Demonstrators carry models of wheat ears.

A view of part of Red Square and the mausoleum during the May Day demonstration (above).

The faces of the demonstration participants.

Dancing girls with bouquets of flowers walk past the mausoleum.

A view of part of the demonstration.

Voroshilov at the ceremony of presenting the battle flag to the 10th Rifle Corps in the summer of 1925. The faces of Red Army soldiers reciting the oath in formation.

Drummers of the military orchestra beat the drums.

Bukharin N.I. and Uglanov N.A. during the ceremony.

Commander of the Moscow Military District Voroshilov and the commanders accompanying him walk along the line.

Red Army soldiers march in parade formation in front of Voroshilov.

Chief of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army A.S. Bubnov talks to the military.

A Red Army regiment enters the field.

Corps commander P.E. Dybenko and Bubnov A.S. talk to commanders.

Members of OSOAVIAKhIM with gas masks march in parade formation.

Panorama of the field, people clear the field for demonstration maneuvers and a battle.

Delegates of the 5th Congress of the Comintern during work in various commissions in the Grand Kremlin Palace in June-July 1924. Zinoviev talks on the phone, puts the receiver down, and leaves.

Congress delegates speak from the rostrum.

Trotsky speaks at one of the sessions of the congress.

Views of Red Square and the mausoleum during the Red Army parade in honor of the 5th Congress of the Comintern.

Unshlikht I.S., Mikoyan A.I., Kirov S.M., Tomsky M.P. on the rostrum of the wooden mausoleum during the parade, rifle and reconnaissance and sabotage units pass through Red Square.

A unit of scooter riders rides by.

Honorary guests on the mausoleum tribune.

Pioneers in front of the mausoleum.

Cyclists riding through Red Square.

People gathered at the Kremlin wall waving their hands and hats (above).

Physical education students in sports uniforms walking through Red Square, a man's face holding a boy.

Columns of demonstrators on Red Square.

Excavation work during the construction of an irrigation canal in the Turkmen SSR, manual digging of the canal.

Types of canal construction, excavation work on the isthmus near the Amu Darya.

Demonstration of examples of combined filming at a film studio.

Camera operator Koryukov, who invented the combined filming method, at work.

Combining a mock-up sketch with nature.

Sequence of operations during combined filming in a pavilion, using the optical properties of a movie camera.

People walking to the library.

People sitting at tables in the library reading room.

Girls reading books.

Shirtless athletes at the parade on Red Square in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on July 27, 1920. A column of pioneers passes, followed by athletes.

A view of an artificial mound with a tribune erected near the Kremlin wall.

Athletes walk along Red Square.

Delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on the tribune.

Representatives of the Emir's Bukhara on the tribune among the guests.

Columns of athletes run across Red Square.

Congress delegates on the tribune under a canopy.

A unit of Red Navy sailors passes through Red Square.

Military buglers sound a signal on Red Square.

Rifle units of the Red Army walk across Red Square during the parade in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern.

A view of an artificial mound with a tribune near the Kremlin wall, Red Army units pass by.

Red Army soldiers in gas masks pass by, a field kitchen passes by.

A view of part of Red Square during the parade.

A truck with children in the back passes through the square.

A column of children from orphanages passes, a truck with children passes through.

Trucks with representatives of Moscow work collectives and party organizations pass through Red Square, people sitting in the backs of the cars greet the congress delegates.

A column of trucks with children on Red Square.

Congress delegates and guests on the tribune.

A view of Red Square during the ceremonial events in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern, an aerostat flies over the square at a low altitude, people run to the aerostat landing in the center of the square.

A panorama of part of Red Square, Red Army soldiers stand opposite an exhibition of captured weapons.

Balloonist N.D. Anoshchenko in the gondola of a rising aerostat.

The lifting winch rotates.

Columns of demonstrators march along Red Square in the direction of St.

Basil's Cathedral; an aerostat is fixed near the cathedral.

View of the Shukhov Radio Tower (from bottom to top).

Loudspeaker horns.

Views of Red Square before the start of a military parade in the early 1930s, troops in parade formation (top), guests on the mausoleum tribune.

Loudspeaker horns on a pole.

Foreign military attachés salute.

Faces of Red Navy sailors standing in parade formation.

Views of the parade formation, Red Square (top), K.E. Voroshilov delivers a speech from the mausoleum tribune.

View of Red Square during the parade (top).

A column of pilots passes.

Units of the Red Army march in parade formation across Red Square.

View of Red Square and the mausoleum during the passage of troops (top).

A light tank drives across Red Square.

Kork AI, Voroshilov KE, Budyonny SM greet the troops, standing at the mausoleum.

A unit of armored cars passes by the mausoleum.

Views of Red Square during the passage of light tanks "MS" (top).

Light tanks pass by the mausoleum.

View of part of Red Square and the mausoleum during the passage of light tanks (top).

Production processes in the shops of an industrial enterprise, faces of workers, operation of equipment and machines.

A squadron of U-2 aircraft in flight.

A pilot at the controls of an airplane.

Heavy bombers are flying.

View of the keel of an airplane, a squadron of biplanes flies behind.

Faces of people watching the takeoff of a hot air balloon, a hot air balloon with a portrait of Lenin tied to the gondola rises into the sky during Air Fleet Day on August 18, 1935. Faces of Molotov VM and Kaganovich LM A hot air balloon with a portrait of Stalin tied to the gondola rises into the sky.

People watch the flight of the balloon.

A formation of airplanes in the shape of a bird flies in the sky.

Molotov with a girl in his arms.

Spectators watch the flights.

An A-7 autogyro in flight.

Demonstration flights of autogyros.

Landing of an autogyro.

Faces of spectators watching the flights, a link of airplanes in flight.

Faces of Molotov and Kaganovich.

Synchronized performance of aerobatics by airplanes.

A fighter jet performs aerobatics, spectators watch the airplane from the ground.

View of part of the city (from above).

View of part of the airship engine.

Transportation of equipment at one of the industrial enterprises using a crane beam.

Red Army soldiers hold the gondola of the Graf Zeppelin airship on the ground at the Moscow airfield in September 1930. Crew members of the German airship look out of the gondola window.

Passengers disembark from the airship gondola.

Troops in parade formation on Red Square on May 1, 1925. Voroshilov K.E. delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum, on the rostrum are Dzerzhinsky F.E., Stalin I.V., Yenukidze A.S., Tomsky M.P. Troops in parade formation on Red Square.

People climb the stairs.

A military brass band plays.

Sunset.

View of a new multi-story corner building in Moscow at night in 1927. Views of Moscow streets and buildings illuminated by electricity.

The production process in a metallurgy workshop.

Smoke from a factory chimney.

The face of a cameraman.

Filming a scene from a feature film at one of the film studios, lighting technicians are setting up the lights (above).

Film director A.P. Dovzhenko watches the process of filming a scene.

View of a part of the film studio building.

The process of filming one of the film scenes.

The cameraman and his assistant at the camera.

Giving the command to film.

The cameramen turn the handles of the cameras.

The heroine acts out the scene.

View of one of the film studio pavilions.

Moving the lighting fixtures horizontally and vertically.

The interior of the pavilion during the filming of a crowd scene (above).