USSR in the mid-1920s (1925-1926)

Kalinin M.I. speaks from the podium at a meeting in one of the villages during a trip to Kuban in 1925. Kalinin leaves the podium.

Kalinin and his entourage at the entrance to the village council.

Ulyanova M.I. gives the floor to the head of the Printing Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Gusev S.I. at the 3rd All-Union Conference of Workers' and Village Correspondents on May 23, 1926.

Head of the Press Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Gusev S.I. speaks at the 3rd All-Union Conference of Workers' and Village Correspondents in Moscow on May 23, 1926. Panorama of the conference hall.

Gusev and conference chairperson M.I. Ulyanova at the presidium table.

Bukharin N.I. speaks before the participants of the 3rd All-Union Conference of Workers' and Village Correspondents.

Faces of the conference participants - delegates of the union republics of the USSR. Bukharin continues his speech.

A representative of the Moscow workers speaks during the transfer of the banner to the Pravda newspaper; the workers on the stage hold the unfurled banner.

The transfer of the banner to the representatives of the Pravda newspaper; the members of the presidium applaud standing up.

The conference participants chat during the break; bast shoes are on the feet of one of the conference participants.

Young Pioneers participating in the holiday on Red Square sit on the cobblestones and fences waiting for the start of the Young Pioneer parade.

Young Pioneers on Red Square in formation during the oath-taking ceremony.

Yaroslavsky E.M., Elbert, Uglanov N.A., Rykov A.I. on the mausoleum tribune.

Panorama of a part of Red Square with Young Pioneers standing in formation.

Former Commander of the People's Army of China Feng Yu Xiang with children on Red Square.

Faces of young pioneers marching in formation.

Honored guests on the mausoleum tribune.

Faces of young pioneers marching in formation.

Elbert, Rykov A.I., Uglanov N.A. on the mausoleum tribune.

Young Pioneers march in a ceremonial march across Red Square.

Inscription on the monument at the grave of N.E. Bauman at the Vagankovskoye Cemetery.

Removing the cover from the monument at Bauman's grave during its opening ceremony in 1925. Portrait of Bauman in the form of a bas-relief.

Journalist A.V. Mandelstam makes a speech.

First Secretary of the Moscow Provincial Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) N.A. Uglanov among the event participants.

View of the rally at Bauman's grave (above).

Views of the ceremonial rally to mark the start of construction of the Central Telegraph Building in Moscow in 1925. Synchronized exercise by participants in a sports festival in Moscow.

Resting athletes from the Gostorg team.

A policeman with a child on his lap.

Faces of resting athletes.

A girl drinks lemonade from a bottle.

A running competition star.

View of part of the stadium during the competition.

Race participants tear the finish line.

A scientist at his desk.

Monument to V.I. Lenin in front of one of the pavilions of the exhibition of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR) on its opening day on May 3, 1926, on the territory of the Agricultural Exhibition.

Sculpture of a worker in front of one of the pavilions.

Sosnovsky L.S. among journalists on the opening day of the exhibition.

Counselor of the German embassy Hilger G. makes an entry in the book of honorary visitors of the exhibition.

People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR Lunacharsky A.V. and his entourage walk through the exhibition grounds.

Visitors in the exhibition halls examine the exhibits.

View of the rally on the exhibition grounds (from above), Lunacharsky (with his back) speaks at the rally.

View of part of the exhibition grounds.

Columns of young athletes from the Union republics of the USSR walk along the stadium track during the sports festival.

Entrance to the courtyard of the building where the Bukharin Workers' Faculty of the 2nd Moscow State University was located.

Entrance to the courtyard of the building that housed the Bukharin Workers' Faculty of the 2nd Moscow State University.

Workers' faculty students walk to classes along Malaya Pirogovskaya Street.

Workers' faculty students during practical classes and self-study.

Troops reviewing during the May Day parade on Uritsky (Palace) Square in Leningrad in 1925. View of a part of the square.

Leaders of the Leningrad Soviet and guests on the tribune.

Guests descending from the tribune.

Chairman of the Leningrad Soviet G.E. Zinoviev with guests in a car.

Cars with guests and members of the Leningrad Soviet drive along Uritsky Square past the formation of troops.

Commanders on horseback near the tribune before the start of the parade.

Faces of the guests on the tribune.

View of the portico of the New Hermitage.

Hermitage employees descending the steps of the portico to the trucks with exhibits in the backs.

Unloading one of the boxes onto the portico from the back of a truck.

Hermitage staff at the entrance to the building during the unloading of exhibits.

Manual transportation of a box along the portico into the building.

General Nobile (with his back) at the door of the Norge airship in Gatchina in May 1926. The airfield commander gives the command into a megaphone.

The airship in the hangar.

Removing the airship from the hangar using cables.

View of the upper part of the airship (from above).

Towing the airship to the takeoff site manually.

Red Army soldiers at the airship gondola.

View of the airship from above.

Panorama of the Norge airship.

The airship taking off from the airfield in Gatchina on May 5, 1926. The airship sets course for Spitsbergen.

The airship flying away.