USSR in 1939 (1939)

Announcer Yu. B. Levitan makes a New Year's toast in the studio in front of a microphone on New Year's Eve, 1940. An orchestra is playing.

Singer Lyudmila Geoli performs a New Year's song in the radio studio accompanied by an orchestra.

The orchestra is on the stage, and participants in the New Year's Eve are dancing around the Christmas tree in the hall.

People are getting up from the festive table with filled glasses in their hands.

A senior lieutenant-tanker makes a New Year's toast.

The pages of a tear-off calendar for 1939 are flying around.

The face of a senior lieutenant-tanker making a toast.

The pages of a tear-off calendar are flying around.

The delegates of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) applaud while standing in the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on the opening day of the congress on March 10, 1939. K. E. Voroshilov and I. V. Stalin applaud while standing in the presidium of the congress.

Octobrists and Young Pioneers greet the congress delegates.

Stalin takes two girls in his arms one after the other and places them on the presidium table.

The congress delegates applaud.

Voroshilov and Stalin applaud.

The Red Army commanders and students of the General Staff Academy stand in formation in the Grand Kremlin Palace and greet the congress.

On behalf of the Red Army, one of the students of the General Staff Academy greets the congress.

The congress delegates applaud.

Delegates to the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) applaud in the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on the opening day of the congress on March 10, 1939. Molotov V.M., Kaganovich L.M., Voroshilov K.E., Stalin I.V. applaud the delegates while standing in the presidium of the congress.

The pages of the 1939 calendar fly around.

A figure of a worker on a pedestal in front of the USSR pavilion on the opening day of the World's Fair in New York on April 30, 1939. View of the USSR pavilion.

Visitors to the exhibition enter the Soviet pavilion.

Visitors examine an art panel depicting outstanding Soviet people, installed in the vestibule of the pavilion, sculptures of Lenin and Stalin on both sides of the panel.

Visitors examine the exposition.

American visitors in line to examine the USSR pavilion.

View of the Soviet pavilion.

The pages of a tear-off calendar are flying around.

Views of Moscow streets on May 23, 1939, during the ceremonial meeting of V.K. Kokkinaki's crew, which made a non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean to North America.

Kokkinaki responds to greetings from Muscovites from his car, while S.M. Budyonny and L.Z. Mekhlis are in the car.

Moscow residents greet the pilots' motorcade.

Pilot M.Kh.

Gordienko and members of the pilots' families respond to greetings from Muscovites from the car.

One of the cars in the motorcade is driving along a Moscow street.

The motorcade of pilots participating in the non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean to North America heads to the gates of the Moscow Kremlin on May 23, 1939. The pages of the tear-off calendar for 1939 fly around. M.I. Kalinin presents government awards in the Kremlin on May 25, 1939.

The plane of German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop after landing at the airport in Moscow on September 27, 1939. Representatives of the diplomatic corps at the airport waiting for Ribbentrop.

Ribbentrop descends the steps of the plane.

The guard of honor company in formation at the airport.

Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR V.P. Potemkin greets Ribbentrop.

Employees of the German embassy during the meeting at the airport.

Faces of the Red Army soldiers of the guard of honor company.

Ribbentrop accepts the report of the head of the guard of honor, shakes his hand.

The face of a lieutenant of the Red Army Air Force greeting Ribbentrop.

Ribbentrop and those accompanying him walk to the cars.

Ribbentrop gets into the car.

A security guard sits in the front seat, the car starts moving.

View of a rally at one of the factories.

The speaker speaks from the podium.

Faces of applauding rally participants.

Panorama of the rally (top).

Musicians play the karnays and beat the tambourines during the construction of the Great Fergana Canal, a view of one of the construction sites.

Canal builders crush the soil with hand hoes.

Komsomol members doing excavation work during the construction of the canal, faces of the Komsomol members.

Excavation work during the construction of the canal, removal of soil on hand stretchers.

A view of one of the sections of the canal under construction (top).

Black Sea Fleet sailors run to the torpedo boats on alert.

The machine gunner takes his place and turns the turret.

The commander of one of the boats in the commander's hatch.

The torpedo boat goes to the target during exercises.

The machine gunner turns the turret.

The boat commander and the machine gunner are at their combat posts.

The torpedo boats go to the target in a deployed formation.

A view of the sales area of a grocery store.

The sellers behind the counter serve customers.

The store manager is talking on the phone, taking notes, the manager's face.

The meat department salesperson is cutting meat with an electric knife.

Removing a bone from a piece of meat, the salesperson's face.

The process of mechanically cutting sausage using a special electric knife.

The salesperson is demonstrating samples of goods in the meat department.

The salesperson is cutting the skin off a piece of lard.

The salesperson is handing over a product wrapped in paper to the customer.

The salesperson is weighing the product on the scales.

Handing over the paid product to the customer.

Screenwriter A. Ya.

Kapler and director M. I. Romm are working on the script for a new film at their dacha.

Romm is typing, Kapler is dictating.

Kapler's face during an interview.

Romm is giving an interview, sitting in the garden at a table near a typewriter.