The Moscow Canal during the May Day celebrations of 1937 (1937)

Festive night fireworks over the Moscow Canal.

People in boats on the water setting off flares.

Participants in the festival, dressed in national costumes of the peoples of the USSR, dance in a circle around a fire.

A trio of guitarists playing.

Accordion players playing.

An amateur orchestra at the festival.

People dancing on the bank of the canal by the light of torches.

A vessel illuminated by torches, a view of a part of the dam and lock under construction.

Dancing around the fire.

Smiling faces of people.

Boats on the water, illuminated by flares (panorama).

Spectators in the stands during a ceremonial rally.

Portraits of Lenin and Stalin at the rally.

A speaker speaking from the rostrum.

The face of an NKVD officer listening to the speaker.

Portraits of Lenin and Stalin.

Faces of NKVD officers present at the rally.

A speaker on the rostrum.

Panorama of a part of the canal bank, a view of the pier.

People waving to passengers of a motor ship, standing on the pier of the Northern River Terminal.

General Commissioner of State Security Yezhov N.I. on the tribune of the mausoleum on May 1, 1937. People standing on a meadow on the bank of the canal, waving to passing ships.

A monument to Lenin at the entrance to the Moscow Canal in the vicinity of Dubna.

View of the canal from the stern of the ship.

A statue of Stalin at the entrance to the canal.