USSR in 1939 (1939)

Shvernik N.M., Molotov V.M., Dimitrov G.M. greet from the tribune the participants of the ceremonial opening of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSHV) on August 1, 1939, faces of applauding representatives of the union republics of Central Asia.

Raising the red flag against the background of the pavilion walls.

View of the exhibition grounds (top).

Panorama of the VSHV grounds (top).

Sculpture of I.V. Stalin on the exhibition grounds.

A guide conducts a tour.

Fragments of the final match of the USSR Football Championship between Moscow's Spartak and Leningrad's Stalinets on September 12, 1939, fans in the stands.

The goalkeeper misses a goal.

Fans in one of the stands.

Spartak football players pass the cup they won to each other after the end of the final match.

Residents of Western Ukraine greet units of the Red Army on September 17, 1939. Panorama of the ceremonial rally.

Soviet tanks move along the street of one of the cities.

Tankers with flowers in the open hatches of the turret.

The population greets the Red Army.

A political worker distributes Soviet newspapers to people, standing in the back of a truck.

Order-bearing milling machine operator Ivan Gudov completes overfulfillment of the quota on October 5, 1939. Workers at their machines, the production process.

Kalinin M.I., Stalin I.V., Malenkov G.M., Zhdanov A.A., Khrushchev N.S. enter the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace for the opening of the meeting of the Fifth Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on October 31, 1939. The deputies applaud.

Mikoyan A.I., Voroshilov K.E., Kaganovich L.M. applaud, standing in the presidium.

Deputies from Western Ukraine with a copy of the Decree on circulation in the USSR that was presented to them.

Deputies from Western Ukraine and Western Belarus at the presidium table, Budyonny S.M. at the presidium table.

Faces of the deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Deputies applaud the leaders of the USSR. Attack of units of the First Cavalry Army during the civil war.

Machine-gun carts rush into the attack.

View of the hall of the ceremonial event on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the First Cavalry Army on November 19, 1939, veterans of the First Cavalry in the presidium.

Army Commissar 1st rank Shchadenko E.A. speaks from the rostrum.

Rallies in military units and industrial enterprises in protest against the provocation on the Soviet-Finnish border on November 30, 1939. Speakers.