Domestic newsreel (1907-1976)

A Red Army soldier writes with chalk on the side of an armoured car.

Naval sailors are loaded onto a train before being sent to the front in 1918-1919. Artillery ammunition is loaded onto a platform.

An armoured train fires its guns as it passes.

View of a building in Petrograd, a snowstorm is blowing.

Cabbies on sleighs on one of the streets of Petrograd, clearing snow.

Women clear the road of snow with wooden shovels, a car passes.

Panorama of Znamenskaya Square in Petrograd (top).

Wounded soldiers boarding trams in Petrograd during World War I in 1915. The wounded are transported in horse-drawn carriages and cars.

Farewell to those mobilized in August 1914. Soldiers run past a carriage of a hospital train.

Sisters of mercy, orderlies, doctors and officers stand by the carriages of a hospital train.

Views of a hospital train during one of its stops.

View of the area in the frontline zone, a train passes in the distance.

Installation of wooden crosses at one of the soldiers' cemeteries.

Unloading the wounded from carts for placement in boxcars.

A nurse shows a wounded soldier the way to a carriage of a hospital train.

A military doctor, the head of the hospital train, and a nurse check the placement of the wounded in a carriage of the hospital train.

The wounded are led along the carriages of the hospital train.

Horse-drawn sleighs pass the station building.

Faces of participants in a revolutionary rally in Petrograd in March 1917. View of part of the palace building and fragments of equestrian statues.

People on the streets of revolutionary Petrograd in February-March 1917. Demonstration of the wives of front-line soldiers on one of the streets of Petrograd.

View of part of a soldier's demonstration.

People and horse-drawn carriages on one of the streets of Petrograd.

Machine gun carts rush into the attack.

The advance of the Red Cavalry during the Civil War.

Collapse of the wall of a building.

Infantry attack.

Cavalry unit of the Russian Army in formation (panorama).

Transportation of troops by rail.

View of a railway bridge.

Landscapes along the railway track.

Red Army soldiers on the platforms of armored trains.

Red Army soldiers in a carriage with an open door.

A column of armored cars and trucks with a red banner drives along the street of a populated area.

Infantry and cavalry attack during the Civil War.

View of a hospital building.

Women at the graves in the cemetery.

Peasants crack sunflower seeds.

Women tie sheaves during the harvest.

Panorama of a harvested field with haystacks (above).

Peasants at a village festival.

Panorama of a part of the territory of one of the monasteries.

Peasants dance during the festival, women dance with each other.

View of a peasant hut under a thatched roof.

View of part of the monastery grounds.

Peasant women in festive attire.

View of the religious procession during the celebration of the consecration of the church.

Icons are brought into the church one by one.

A ceremonial procession with an icon.

Soldiers running into the attack during World War I. View of parts of an industrial enterprise.

Relatives of the 26 Baku Commissars during their burial ceremony in Baku in September 1920 (panorama).

Trains passing by.

Fragments of x\ films about the beginning of the revolutionary movement.

Red Army soldiers disembarking from a barge onto the shore.

People running and galloping on horseback.

Views of a reindeer team.

A truck passes.

A cart loaded with empty coffins approaches the church.

Funeral of soldiers at the front, removal of a coffin from a cart.

Views of demonstrative columns in Petrograd in the summer of 1917. People run along a railway embankment, catching leaflets thrown from a carriage.

Leaflets are thrown from a carriage of an agitational train at one of the stops, people near the carriage catch them.

Panorama of the carriages of one of the agitational trains.

Patriotic marches at the beginning of the First World War in 1914. Petliura's generals take the parade in Kyiv.

Clergymen sprinkle the formation of military units of the Russian army before sending them to the front in 1914-1915, Emperor Nicholas II with his heirs and the military accompanying them walk behind the priest.

View of the dam under construction at Kichkas during the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in 1928-1929. Water flows between the foundations of the dam.

Panorama of one of the Dnieper branches during the construction of the dam in the 1970s.

A speaker speaking at a rally in 1919. Civilians dismantling the structures of a blown-up railway bridge (panorama).

People working on a clean-up day to plant greenery, watering beds with a watering can.

Carrying soil on a stretcher during a clean-up day.

Meeting a tractor in a village in the 1920s.

Students working on the restoration of an Orthodox church building, an architectural monument, in the 1970s, passing bricks along a chain.

Meeting a tractor on one of the collective farms in 1929. Peasants voting to join a collective farm in 1929-1930. Tractors making the first furrow.

A festive procession in the village to celebrate the arrival of a tractor.

A queue on one of the streets of Petrograd during the First World War.

Settlers from the Poltava province during a ceremonial service before leaving for the Urals in 1907-1908. Settlers with their belongings under their arms go to board the train.

Settlers boarding the freight cars.

Settlers having a drink before the journey.

A ceremonial service before settlers board the train.

Settlers boarding the freight cars.

Settlers drinking moonshine from a bottle.

Agricultural work during the harvest in a Russian village in the 1910s, loading hay onto a cart.

Carts with hay drive by.

Threshing grain with steam threshers, collecting straw.

Workers and Red Army soldiers work on subbotniks in the early 1920s.

Plowing the land with a captured English tank in the early 1920s.

Threshing grain of the new harvest on a grain threshing floor using steam threshers, the face of a collective farmer.

Mechanical chopping of hay.

Red Army soldiers carry sacks of grain.

Panorama of the construction of one of the industrial enterprises in the late 1920s (above).

Parade of the Volunteer Army units in Rostov in 1919. Cavalrymen marching on foot.

Movement of a military convoy during the First World War.

Parade of the Kuban Cossack units in Yekaterinodar in 1918-1919. Parade of the White Army units.

Chronicle of the White Guard units and interventionists.

Arrival of an ambulance van to the building of the rear hospital.

Cavalry during the First World War and the Civil War.

Combat operations on the fronts of the First World War in 1915-1916. Combat operations at sea.

Armored cars drive along the Neva embankment in Petrograd in October 1919. Fragment of a poster.

A platoon of Red Army soldiers passes.

A military echelon goes to the front.

Red Guards and revolutionary sailors walk along the streets of Gatchina in November 1917. Revolutionary soldiers with rifles stand on an armored car on one of the streets of Petrograd in late February 1917. Rallies and demonstrations in Petrograd in early March 1917. Cars with soldiers drive by, a panorama of one of the rallies.

The commissar of one of the cavalry units of the Red Army, sitting on horseback, addresses the soldiers.

Newsreel footage of military operations on the fronts of World War I. A Red Army machine gun crew fires during the civil war.

Red Army commanders on horseback.

Faces of homeless children.

An undressed child sits on the rails and cries.

Slop is being poured out of a train car.

A starving girl picks up ears of corn.

An employee of a sanitary train helps children get out of a laundry car.

Employees of a sanitary train handing out linen, clothing and footwear to children, faces of children.

Children holding the things they received in their hands.

Photograph of V. I. Lenin chairing a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on October 16, 1918. Headline from the Kommuna newspaper. V. I. Lenin speaking on Red Square on March 18, 1919 during the funeral of Ya. M. Sverdlov. M. I. Kalinin speaking to peasants at a railway station in 1918. N. K. Krupskaya among women, Krupskaya's face. V. I. Chapaev standing by a train carriage in 1919. P. E. Dybenko among revolutionary sailors and military personnel in 1917. Face of A. V. Lunacharsky, People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR, speaking from the rostrum.

Face of A. M. Kollontai.

Face of V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich.

Faces of workers in the foundry of one of the industrial enterprises in the 1970s.

View of part of the workshop, production process.

Faces of delegates to the next Congress of Soviets in the early 1920s.

Sending a military echelon to the front during the civil war.

A truck of the Union of Metalworkers on Red Square during a demonstration in the first half of the 1920s.

View of the Bolshoi Theater building during the 6th Extraordinary Congress of Soviets on November 6-9, 1918. Red Army soldiers on Theater Square.

Congress delegates exiting a car.

Panorama of a part of the Bolshoi Theater hall during a session of the congress.

Delegates queuing for registration.

A speaker speaking at a rally while standing in an open car.

Sverdlov Ya. I. and Avanesov V. A. in the back seat of the car.

The doors of the enfilade of the Grand Kremlin Palace open.

Interiors of the palace.

Delegates to the 25th Congress of the CPSU in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in 1976. Congress delegate, breeder Maltsev T.S. talks with congress delegates.

Maltsev's face.