Domestic newsreel (1917)

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, damaged as a result of shelling during the fighting in October 1917. The wall of one of the Kremlin cathedrals, broken by artillery shells.

Traces of shrapnel and explosions on the walls of the Kremlin cathedrals.

Damage to the walls of the cathedrals and monasteries of the Kremlin.

Photographs of the sights of the Moscow Kremlin in the 1910s.

Photographs of the Kremlin towers.

Photograph of the Moscow Kremlin in the early 20th century.

Views of the Kremlin territory in spring.

Interiors of the rooms of the Lenin museum-apartment in the Kremlin, a desk in the study.

House in Gorki.

Interiors of the house in Gorki.

Photographs of Lenin in Gorki in 1922 with Krupskaya, sister, and nephew.

Birch grove in the vicinity of Gorki.

Photographs of Lenin in Gorki and in the Kremlin.

Interiors of Lenin's memorial study in the Kremlin, Lenin's desk, bookcases, a geographic map on the wall.

A fragment of one of Lenin's manuscripts.

A photograph of Lenin during a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on October 16, 1918. A close-up photograph of Lenin.

Photo portraits of Ya. M. Sverdlov, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, M. V. Frunze, G. V. Chicherin, N. A. Semashko, A. V. Lunacharsky.

A fragment of the text of Lenin's article "The Main Task of Our Day".

A photograph of Lenin.

View of a destroyed railway bridge.

Abandoned and dismantled steam locomotives on sidings.

A steam locomotive thrown off the rails.

View of a windmill.

Houses of poor peasants.

A cleanup day to clear rubble.

Miners descend into the face.

Manual coal mining in the face.

Rolling back coal cars.

Production processes in the workshops of restored industrial enterprises, smoking factory chimneys.

Panorama of one of the industrial enterprises of the First Five-Year Plan.

A peasant ploughs the land with a plow.

A peasant prepares a plow for ploughing.

Peasants leave for the city.

Arrival of a train with bagmen on the roofs of the carriages at the station.

Refugees from famine-stricken areas eat soup sitting on the rails.

Faces of starving children and adults.

Distribution of bread to starving children at feeding stations.

Pupils of an orphanage eat from pots.

Photo portrait of A. Tsyurupa.

Performance of a folklore and dance ensemble of one of the union republics of the USSR in the late 1920s.

Faces of musicians of the orchestra of Caucasian folk instruments.

A dancer performs on stage accompanied by a Caucasian orchestra.

Faces of musicians.

Armenian ashughs perform a folk song.

Spectators in the hall.

Felix Kon among the spectators.

Faces of the spectators.

Presidium of the meeting on the occasion of the conclusion of an agreement on socialist competition between the union republics and national districts of the USSR. Representatives of different nationalities sign an agreement on socialist competition. F. Kon in the presidium of the meeting.

Faces of representatives of one of the union republics.

Felix Kon speaking from the rostrum, faces of the meeting participants.

Entrance to the Dynamo sports store in Moscow.

People in the doorway of the store.

Selling skis in the Dynamo store.

Customers choosing ski poles.

The salesperson behind the counter demonstrates skates to customers.

A woman trying on boots for skates.

Wrapping purchased skates in paper.

Customers at the counter choosing hockey sticks.

Customers in the doorway of the store.

People taking away the purchased skis in a cab.