The final session of the XIX Congress of the CPSU (1952)

Views of part of the Moscow Kremlin and the embankment of the Moskva River.

Delegates of the 19th Congress of the CPSU in the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace applaud while standing before the start of the final session of the congress on October 14, 1952. Malenkov G.M., Bulganin N.A., Voroshilov K.E., Beria L.P., Stalin I.V., Khrushchev N.S. come out into the hall and take their places at the presidium table (above).

The delegates finish applauding and take their seats.

View of the presidium of the meeting, Voroshilov K.E. gives the floor to Stalin I.V. The delegates stand up and applaud.

Stalin I.V. comes out onto the rostrum, view of the presidium (above).

Applauding delegates.

Khrushchev N.S., Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M., Kirichenko D.S. applaud, standing in the presidium.

Applauding leaders of fraternal communist parties, among them Otto Grotewohl.

Stalin I.V. on the rostrum.

View of part of the hall and the presidium of the congress during the ovation in honor of Stalin.

The delegates finish applauding and sit down.

Speech of Stalin I.V. at the final session of the 19th Congress of the CPSU (synchronously), views of the hall and presidium, delegates applaud Stalin during his speech.

Malenkov G.M., Beria L.P., Bulganin N.A. listen to the speech of Stalin I.V., sitting in the presidium.

Stalin continues his speech.

Leaders of fraternal communist parties listen to Stalin, among them Grotewohl O., Gottwald K.