Sergey Mironovich Kirov (1924-1934)

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) of Azerbaijan Kirov S.M. speaks from the rostrum at a teachers' conference in 1924. Conference participants listen to Kirov's speech.

Kirov among the leaders of Soviet Azerbaijan during a mourning rally in a square in Baku on the day of M.V. Frunze's funeral in 1925. The movement of columns of the mourning demonstration along one of the streets of Baku.

Kirov holds his hand to his headdress.

First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Kirov delivers a speech at the 24th Leningrad Provincial Party Conference in Smolny, views of the Smolny assembly hall.

Ordzhonikidze G.K., Kalinin M.I., Stalin I.V., Kuibyshev V.V. in the Kremlin on the day of Stalin's 50th birthday on December 21, 1929. Kalinin M.I., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Kuibyshev V.V., Kirov S.M. during congratulations to Stalin on his anniversary (panorama).

Delegates of the 3rd Leningrad Regional Party Conference in the meeting hall in 1930. View of part of the Moscow Kremlin in 1931 during the work of the 6th All-Union Congress of Soviets (top).

Kirov goes to another meeting.

Arrival of congress delegates at the Bolshoi Theater.

Warships of the Baltic Fleet during the maneuvers of 1932. Kirov's face.

View of part of the deck of a warship (top).

Kirov S.M. and Voroshilov K.E., standing on the deck of a warship, observe the progress of the maneuvers through binoculars.

Kirov S.M. and his entourage walk across a suspension bridge during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal in 1933. Kirov listens to explanations from engineers and construction managers.

View of part of the lock under construction (top).

Kirov at the construction of the canal, listening to engineers, examining drawings.

Kirov at the Presidium of the First Regional Congress of Shock Workers in 1933. Congress delegates in the meeting hall.

Kirov delivers a speech from the rostrum (synchronously).

Congress delegates applaud Kirov.

The funeral procession with Kirov's coffin moves to the train station on December 3, 1934, to travel to Moscow.

Red Navy sailors stand in a cordon on the platform.

Soldiers carry banners at the head of the column of the funeral procession, the hearse with Kirov's coffin moves along the streets of Leningrad to the train station.

Red Navy sailors on the street in a cordon.

Red Army guards of honor with rifles over their shoulders walk next to the hearse.

Leningrad workers walk in the columns of the funeral procession during the farewell to Kirov's body in Moscow.

The movement of the hearse and funeral procession along Voldarsky Avenue, Nevsky Avenue (October 25), views of the funeral procession and guard of honor.

People walk behind Kirov's coffin, infantry and cavalry move.

People stand by the funeral carriage.

A brass band carries funeral wreaths past the carriage on the station square.

The funeral train departs, those seeing off their hats.

View of the Moscow Kremlin and part of the Moskva River.

Kalinin M.I., Budyonny S.M., Gamarnik Ya.B., Rudzutak Ya.E., Kaganovich L.M., Ordzhonikidze G.K. walk along the platform awaiting the arrival of the train with Kirov’s coffin in Moscow on December 4, 1934. Krupskaya N.K. and Ulyanova M.I. awaiting the arrival of the funeral train.

Faces of people awaiting the funeral train.

Budyonny S.M. and Gamarnik Ya.B. on the platform.

Kaganovich L.M., Andreev A.A., Bulganin N.A. on the platform awaiting the funeral train.

Arrival of the funeral train in Moscow, Kirov’s portrait on the front of the locomotive.

Participants in the funeral event stand with bowed banners.

Unloading the coffin with Kirov’s body from the funeral carriage, Ordzhonikidze G.K. and Kaganovich L.M. unload the coffin in front.

Bowed banners in the hands of the participants in the funeral demonstration, the military carry Kirov’s awards on cushions, Budyonny S.M. walks in front.

Bowed banners.

Funeral wreaths being carried out from the station building.

Faces of the participants in the funeral demonstration.

Ordzhonikidze G.K., Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M. at the coffin with Kirov's body, placed on a hearse.

Participants in the funeral rally are holding portraits of Kirov in a mourning frame.

Stalin I.V., Kalinin M.I., Voroshilov K.E., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Kaganovich L.M., Gamarnik Ya.B. walk behind Kirov's coffin during the funeral procession along the streets of Moscow.

Portraits of Kirov and banners with slogans in the hands of participants in the funeral event, standing on the sidewalks.

The funeral procession moves along the streets of Moscow.

Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Kalinin M.I. walk at the head of the funeral procession behind Kirov's coffin.

Kaganovich L.M. supports V.M. Molotov under the elbow.

Views of the funeral procession, the leaders of the party and the state follow Kirov's coffin.

Participants in the funeral procession carry the banners of Moscow enterprises.

The coffin with Kirov's body on a gun carriage at the head of the funeral procession.

Airplanes are flying, Kalinin, Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Ordzhonikidze follow Kirov's coffin.

Participants in the funeral procession pass by with banners in their hands.

Faces of the military.

The coffin with Kirov's body is carried through the doors of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.