Newsreel of Soviet Georgia (1933-1946)

Georgian sculptors working on sculptural portraits of V.I. Lenin and I.V. Stalin, faces of the sculptors.

Students in the lecture hall greet the teacher before the lecture.

The teacher gives a lecture, demonstrates a teaching aid.

View of the lecture hall.

Leaders of the Georgian SSR at the table of the presidium of the Congress of Soviets of Georgia in 1936, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR F.I. Makharadze speaks, L.P. Beria sits at the table among the members of the presidium.

Faces of Beria and Makharadze.

Panorama of the boxes in the theater hall during the session of the congress.

Applauding delegates of the congress.

Beria and Commander of the Transcaucasian Military District M.K. Levandovsky applaud, standing in the presidium.

Faces of the applauding delegates.

Panorama of the hall of the congress session.

Faces of the delegates of the congress, the face of Beria.

Applauding delegates.

A full-length portrait of Stalin in the meeting hall.

Beria among the applauding members of the presidium.

Participants in the demonstration in Tbilisi in honor of the adoption of the Constitution of the USSR carry portraits of Beria and Stalin.

A view of one of the columns of the demonstration, the participants of the demonstration carry banners with slogans.

The leaders of the Georgian SSR on the rostrum greet the passing demonstrators.

A speech by one of the speakers.

Participants of the demonstration pass by the rostrum, carry banners with slogans.

Portraits of the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the USSR above the columns of the demonstration.

View of the building of the I.V. Stalin Museum in Gori in 1937. Panorama and views of the ceremonial rally on the occasion of the opening of the museum.

The speaker speaks from the rostrum.

Young Pioneers in formation during the rally.

Faces of the participants of the rally.

Speech of the next speaker.

Views and panorama of the rally.

Red banners with slogans flutter.

A memorial plaque in honor of Stalin on the wall of the museum.

The face of the guide.

Tourists enter the museum.

Views of the museum exposition.

View of the museum building.

Stalin speaking from the podium.

A symphony orchestra performing a piece of music in honor of Stalin.

The conductor at the conductor's stand.

A harp in the orchestra.

Orchestra musicians performing a piece.

View of the orchestra.

Views of the streets and avenues of Tbilisi.

Cars driving along the embankment (above).

Production processes in a printing house.

Covers of publications in Georgian and Russian dedicated to Stalin.

Book binding.

Female athletes carry a portrait of Stalin during the physical culture parade in Tbilisi in 1941. Parade participants carry banners.

Representatives of the republic's leadership on the stand.

Parade participants portray various figures, standing on truck platforms and in motorcycle sidecars.

Columns of parade participants pass by.

Parade participants carry portraits of the leaders of the USSR. Units of the Red Army pass in front of the stand in ceremonial formation.

Commander of the troops of the Transcaucasian Military District Lieutenant General D. T. Kozlov on the stand.

Athletes with rifles and in swimming trunks pass by.

A column of skiers in white camouflage suits passes in front of the stand on ski rollers.

Parade participants pass in front of the stand.

The face of one of the leaders standing on the stand.

Parade participants carry portraits of Stalin and Beria.

Members of the Tbilisi Dynamo society pass by.

A woman with a child on her shoulder.

Women with children on their shoulders walk in front of the stand.

Sports demonstration performances by parade participants on the square, view of the square during another performance by athletes (above).

Synchronized performance of bayonet fighting techniques.

Demonstration bayonet fighting on the square (panorama, above).

Demonstration performances in military-applied sports on the square.

Performance by athletes, building a "pyramid" figure.

Columns of the May Day demonstration of the early 1930s move along the streets of Tbilisi.

Pioneers beat drums.

Buglers of one of the pioneer detachments give a signal.

The column of pioneers begins to move, the pioneers carry banners with slogans.

Pioneer detachments on the streets of Tbilisi.

Residents of Tbilisi enter the doors of a polling station during the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR in 1946. A man drops a ballot into the ballot box.

Interior view of a polling station.

A married couple leads an elderly woman to the polling station.

An elderly woman receiving a ballot.

A woman enters a voting booth and exits.

A woman drops a ballot into a ballot box.

A serviceman helps an elderly woman and a girl out of a car.

Relatives take an elderly woman to a polling station in a Georgian village.

A member of the election commission delivers a ballot box on horseback to an elderly couple living in a mountain village.

Old people drop ballots into a ballot box delivered to them.

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Tbilisi.

Voting sailors.

Local leaders arrive at a polling station.

Voting at a polling station.

Voters receive ballots and drop them into ballot boxes.

Children from a kindergarten play with new toys while sitting at tables.

Members of an election commission count the votes.

A portrait of Beria inside a polling station.

Beria delivers a speech at a pre-election meeting of the Stalin electoral district in Tbilisi on February 5, 1946. Views of the meeting hall, meeting participants applauding.

Young men and women engage in various types of water sports.