Demonstrations and military parades in Moscow and Petrograd (1922-1935)

A Red Army cavalryman carries an effigy of a bourgeois in a top hat on a pike during a demonstration in Petrograd on November 7, 1922. Participants in a theatrical performance run and carry effigies of Western political figures across Uritsky (Palace) Square.

A mounted police patrol maintains order.

An effigy of a bourgeois in a top hat on a cavalryman's pike.

A column of firefighters passes by.

The leadership of Petrograd is on the platform.

An agitation truck passes by the platform, leaflets are scattered from the back.

An agitation truck moves along Uritsky Square.

Columns of young people and schoolchildren pass through the square.

A model of a rubber galosh placed on a truck during a demonstration.

A column of young people passes.

Faces of children, a girl beats a toy drum.

Military buglers sound a signal.

A column of schoolchildren in Red Army helmets begins to move.

Faces of schoolchildren passing in columns.

Participants in a demonstration on a street in Petrograd.

A brass band leads a column of firefighters.

A truck with children in the back drives down the street.

A model of the globe in one of the trucks with children.

Children waving from the back of the truck.

A truck with slogans of solidarity with the proletariat of Germany drives by.

A column of schoolchildren goes out to Uritsky (Palace) Square.

Festive decorations on the Sevzapkino building on Sergievskaya Street in Petrograd, a column of demonstrators passes by.

The movement of the demonstration columns along Nevsky Prospekt.

An agitation truck with a slogan of solidarity with Germany on board drives by.

A military brass band plays.

Participants in the demonstration with a red flag in their hands.

A column of firefighters passes, led by a brass band.

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council Kamenev L.B., Budyonny S.M., Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the RSFSR Kalinin M.I. On the tribune on Red Square in Moscow during the demonstration on November 7, 1922. Kalinin greets the demonstration participants from the tribune.

Kamenev and Kalinin on the tribune.

A woman with a child at the bottom of the tribune.

Demonstration participants on Revolution Square.

Parade of Red Army units on Red Square.

Horse artillery and cavalry units at the parade on Red Square.

Rifle units and students of the Red Army Military Academy march across Red Square.

Demonstration participants on Revolution Square.

Students of military academies march across Red Square.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic Kamenev S.S., Budyonny S.M., Antonov-Ovseenko V.A., Muralov N.I. on Red Square during the military parade.

The speaker speaks from the rostrum of the mausoleum during the parade on Red Square on November 7, 1931, with Stalin I.V., Budyonny S.M., Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M., and Kalinin M.I. standing nearby.

Units of the Red Army in parade formation on Red Square.

Faces of the commanders participating in the parade, standing in formation.

The combined military brass band on Red Square before the start of the parade.

Voroshilov on horseback rides out of the gates of the Spasskaya Tower.

Voroshilov drives up to the mausoleum and dismounts.

The leaders of the USSR on the rostrum of the mausoleum, Voroshilov delivering a speech.

Faces of the junior commanders participating in the parade.

Troops of the Moscow garrison and students of military academies march in parade formation across Red Square, panorama of a part of the guest tribune.

Automobile equipment and a BT-2 tank pass through Red Square.

Tanks pass in front of the mausoleum.

View of a part of the guest stand.

Foreign military attachés watch the passing troops.

T-27 tankettes at the parade on Red Square.

Armored cars, heavy and anti-aircraft artillery on tracks pass along Red Square.

The face of a Japanese diplomat.

Searchlight units of the air defense on trucks at the parade on Red Square.

Horse-drawn artillery passes in front of the mausoleum.

The highest military command of the Red Army greets the passing troops.

The faces of Voroshilov, Budyonny, and Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy V.M. Orlov (panorama).

Cavalry units of the Red Army pass along Red Square.

Columns of the festive demonstration enter Red Square, cameramen and photo reporters take pictures.

Kaganovich L.M. and Molotov V.M. during the May Day celebrations on Red Square in the mid-1930s.

Stalin's face.

Schmidt O.Yu. talks with one of the army commanders during the May Day celebrations of 1934-1935.