Farewell to S.M. Kirov (1934)

The coffin with the body of S. M. Kirov is carried out of the Tauride Palace in Leningrad on the evening of December 3, 1934. The coffin is carried past an honor guard of naval sailors (panorama).

A cordon of naval sailors is on the sidewalk, people are standing behind the cordon (panorama).

Red Army commanders carry banners at the head of the funeral procession.

The coffin with the body of Kirov on an artillery gun carriage during the funeral procession.

Military personnel with banners walk at the head of a brass band.

A cordon of naval sailors and residents of Leningrad on the sidewalk (panorama).

Workers carry funeral wreaths, an honor guard with rifles over their shoulders walks nearby.

The funeral procession moves along the streets of Leningrad to the train station.

Views of the funeral procession and the honor guard as it moves along Voldarsky Avenue.

Views of the funeral procession moving along 25 October (Nevsky) Avenue.

Leningrad workers carry banners of enterprises and city districts.

People follow Kirov’s coffin.

A carriage of the funeral train.

A military brass band at the station, funeral wreaths are carried past the carriage.

Closing the doors of the carriage with Kirov’s coffin, the train departs, people uncover their heads.

View of a part of the Moscow Kremlin and the Moskva River on the morning of December 4, 1934. Kalinin M.I. and Budyonny S.M. on the station platform awaiting the arrival of the funeral train.

Krupskaya N.K. and Ulyanova M.I. on the platform.

Faces of workers.

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

Kaganovich L.M., Andreev A.A., Bulganin N.A. awaiting the arrival of the funeral train.

Arrival of the funeral train in Moscow.

The military salutes the train passing along the platform.

Participants in the funeral procession stand with bowed banners.

Carrying out the coffin with Kirov's body from the carriage, Kaganovich among those carrying the coffin.

Bowed funeral banners.

Budyonny S.M. and one of the commanders carry Kirov's awards on small pillows.

Bowed funeral banners.

Carrying out funeral wreaths from the station building.

Faces of participants in the funeral event, the coffin with Kirov's body is carried out of the station building, the coffin is carried by Voroshilov K.E., Rudzutak Ya.E., behind the coffin walk Gamarnik Ya.B. and Yagoda G.G. Faces of women.

Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M., Mikoyan A.I., Ordzhonikidze G.K. stand by the artillery gun carriage with Kirov's coffin.

Portraits of Kirov above the funeral procession.

Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Molotov V.M., Kalinin M.I., Zhdanov A.A. follow Kirov's coffin.

People with portraits of Kirov and mourning slogans stand behind the police cordon.

The funeral procession moves along the streets of Moscow.

Stalin, Voroshilov, Ordzhonikidze, Kalinin, Molotov, Kaganovich follow Kirov's coffin, participants in the funeral procession pass by.

View of one of the streets of Moscow during the funeral procession.

Workers carry banners of Moscow enterprises.

Workers of the Dynamo plant stand along the route of the funeral procession.

Artillery gun carriage with Kirov's coffin, Stalin, Voroshilov, Gamarnik, Ordzhonikidze follow the coffin.

Airplanes in the sky over Moscow.

Kalinin, Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Ordzhonikidze walk behind Kirov's coffin.

Airplanes fly over Moscow during the funeral procession.

Views of the funeral procession moving along Bolshaya Dmitrovka to the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Workers carry the banners of Moscow enterprises.

The gun carriage with Kirov's coffin.

Red Army commanders in helmets stand in formation.

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