Celebration of May 1, 1978 in Frunze (1978)

Trucks with models and banners on platforms pass in front of the tribune set up near the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan during the beginning of the May Day demonstration of 1978 in Frunze.

Trucks with models of the orders awarded to the Kirghiz SSR pass by, the standard-bearer carries the national flag of the republic.

A column of athletes carrying the flags of the union republics of the USSR passes behind the trucks.

Athletes perform in front of the leaders of the republic standing on the tribune.

Participants in the demonstration pass in front of the tribune carrying banners, banners with slogans and portraits of the leaders of the USSR. A column of pioneers passes with artificial flowers in their hands (top).

Motorcars with portraits of Lenin and Brezhnev pass by.

Representatives of the Pervomaisky, Sverdlovsky, Leninsky districts of Frunze at the demonstration (panorama).

Panorama of part of the demonstration (top).

A column of athletes with red banners passes (top).

Columns of Komsomol members march in formation, forming the abbreviation "KPSS".

Panorama of one of the columns of the demonstration.

The movement of the May Day demonstration past the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, views of the demonstration (from above), portraits of Engels, Brezhnev and Marx above the column of demonstrators.

Faces of the marching participants of the demonstration.

Bundles of balloons flying into the sky.