Domestic newsreels of the 1920s (1919-1929)

Fragments of the mystery play on the steps of the Stock Exchange building in Petrograd in 1919. Red Army soldiers being trained to shoot from a kneeling and standing position.

Performing an exercise on the parallel bars during a gymnastics competition.

A young gymnast jumping over the "horse".

Synchronized exercise performance on a sports ground.

Young men and women performing exercises synchronously.

Girls performing a sports and gymnastics dance with balls.

Young men and teenagers jumping from the bank into the water naked.

Swimming in the river.

Lenin V.I. signs the foundation board during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the monument to Marx and Engels on May 1, 1920. Panorama of the rally on the occasion of the opening of the monument to Lenin at the Kashira Power Station on May 5, 1925. The construction managers are going to the rally.

Panorama of part of the rally.

Faces of the rally participants.

The speaker speaks from the rostrum.

Panorama of part of the rally.

View of the presidium of the rally.

Buglers give the signal to open the meeting.

A brass band plays.

Panorama of part of the meeting and the presidium.

View of the open monument to Lenin.

Faces of a man and a boy.

View of the presidium of the meeting, faces of girls.

Faces of applauding workers participating in a meeting at one of the Moscow factories.

Komsomol members use shovels to fill a ditch with water during the All-Union Subbotnik to Help a School in 1928. A brass band plays.

Komsomol members unloading lumber.

Unloading hay briquettes.

Komsomol members stacking hay briquettes.

Loading empty barrels into a warehouse.

Unloading firewood from a train.

A pile of unloaded firewood.

Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street in Moscow, a banner with a slogan about re-elections to the Soviets above the street in January 1929. A tram decorated with election propaganda.

Slogans on red banners and trams.

The text of a poster with an order from children to future deputies on one of the streets of Moscow.

A demonstration of children and women under the slogan of re-elections of the Soviets.

A sign of an outpatient clinic in the Sokolnichesky District.

A demonstration in one of the villages under the slogan of re-elections of the Soviets.

People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR A. V. Lunacharsky talks to workers during a meeting at the People's Commissariat.

One of the workers asks Lunacharsky a question.

Lunacharsky answers the question and makes a note on a piece of paper.

The workers listen to Lunacharsky.

People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR K. E. Voroshilov speaks to workers during a meeting at the People's Commissariat.

Voroshilov's face.

Faces of the meeting participants.

One of the meeting participants asks Voroshilov a question, looking at the text.

People's faces.

Voroshilov talks about the growth of the Red Army, pointing to a diagram hanging on the wall.

Workers listen to Voroshilov's report.

Voroshilov and Bubnov A.S. talk to workers.

Pre-election meeting of housewives.

Installation of visual propaganda in Novosibirsk on the day of re-elections of the Soviets.

Voters write their orders.

Text of one of the orders.

Installation of posters near one of the polling stations.

Poster on the topic of the fight against the kulaks.

Pre-election poster installed on a sled pulled by a dog, children running after the sled.

A pioneer conducts propaganda among village children, shows them illustrations from a children's magazine.

A pioneer distributes posters and propaganda children's literature to village children, the children raise their hands.

An elephant is led along a city street, accompanied by foot and mounted police officers, children and adults look at the elephant from open windows.

An elephant, accompanied by police, is led along the street.

Participants in a ski propaganda campaign dedicated to the re-elections to the Soviets in January 1929, walk through a village.

Skiers-agitators ride along the street of one of the settlements, one of the skiers hangs an propaganda poster on the gate.

Local residents watch the participants of the ski propaganda campaign from the porch.

Skiers attach propaganda pre-election posters to fences and walls of wooden houses. hanging posters on the doors of the local Kult-teahouse of the Platovo-Ozherelkovskoye rural consumer society.

Local residents read texts on posters.

Skiers continue their campaign. M.I. Ulyanova's speech at one of the pre-election meetings, faces of the meeting participants (combined shooting, alternation of newsreels and slogans).

View of the Shukhov Tower in Moscow (from below).