A film chronicle of the Stalin era (1933-1952)

Kalinin M.I. presents an award to a representative of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR in the Kremlin.

Molotov V.M., Voroshilov K.E., Stalin I.V., Kalinin M.I., Andreev A.A. shake hands with a representative of the Buryat-Mongol Republic after receiving a congratulatory address on January 27, 1936. Stalin picks up a girl from the delegation, Gelya Markizova, with Voroshilov standing nearby.

Delegates applauding.

View of the Historical Museum building on Red Square.

Panorama of the guest stands near the mausoleum, filled with people.

Naval sailors march along Red Square during the May Day parade of 1933. The speaker delivers a speech from the mausoleum rostrum, on the rostrum are Stalin I.V., Kaganovich L.M., Molotov V.M., Gorky A.M. Armed workers in leather jackets march along Red Square.

Columns of pioneers pass through Red Square.

A unit of horse artillery gallops through Red Square.

May Day demonstration of Moscow workers on Red Square.

Stalin I.V., Khrushchev N.S., Voroshilov K.E. enter the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, stop at the presidium table.

Voroshilov applauds, Stalin stands next to him.

Interview of Trotsky L.D. in 1938-1939. Trotsky during the civil war.

Trotsky in a coffin in 1940. Rifle and searchlight units of the Red Army at the May Day parade in Moscow in 1939-1940. Heavy artillery passes through Red Square.

Map of Eastern Europe with the new border of the USSR in 1940 (animation).

Warships of the USSR Navy on a campaign, the naval flag of the USSR above one of the ships.

Deck artillery turret barrels.

Estonian border guards open the border to Soviet troops in 1940. A truck with Red Army soldiers in the back crosses the Estonian border.

Stalin I.V. speaks from the podium with a report at the ceremonial meeting of the Moscow Council of Working People's Deputies and representatives of party and public organizations of Moscow in the Grand Kremlin Palace, views of the meeting hall and presidium.

Drawings by Soviet children dedicated to Stalin.

Unveiling of the monument to Stalin.

Kaganovich L.M. applauds during the rally in honor of the unveiling of the monument to Stalin.

Rally participants applaud in the rain.

Papanin I.D. on the rostrum of the ceremonial rally in 1938. View of the rally.

Papanin makes a speech (synchronously), takes off his cap at the end of his speech, "The Internationale" plays.

Panorama and view of the rally (from above).

View of the rally rostrum, panorama of Stalin's portrait above the rostrum.

Rally participants applaud.

Presentation of bouquets of flowers to Papanin I.D. and Schmidt O.Yu. on the rally rostrum.

Views of the rally, Papanin with a bouquet of flowers on the rostrum greets the rally participants.

Bust of Stalin in the sculptor's studio.

Tbilisi pioneers climb the stairs to the monument to Stalin.

A woman embroiders a portrait of Stalin on fabric, a girl with a sketch of the embroidery in her hands compares the image on the sketch with the almost finished embroidered full-length portrait of Stalin.

A mountaineer cuts steps on an icy cliff.

Mountaineers install a flag with a portrait of Stalin on a conquered peak.

View of a rally in Tbilisi on November 4, 1951, a banner with a portrait of Stalin.

Faces of girls with bouquets of flowers.

Paintings dedicated to Stalin.

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Georgia, L.P. Beria, on the platform of a ceremonial rally in Tbilisi in 1936-1938. Speech by a veteran of the revolutionary movement in Georgia.

Monument to Stalin on the square.

Stalin monument on the city square.

Children's drawings depicting Stalin.

Stalin's face I.V. (close-up) during a photo session with one of the delegations of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in March 1939. Stalin's and Voroshilov's faces during a photo session.

Stalin's face (close-up).

Stalin's and Voroshilov's faces, Stalin and Voroshilov rise from their chairs.

Malenkov G.M., Khrushchev N.S., Kaganovich L.M., Zhdanov A.A., Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Kalinin M.I., Andreyev A.A. sit in a row on chairs during a photo session with one of the delegations of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Stalin I.V. and the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) sit in a row on chairs, behind them the delegates of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) line up for a photograph.

Members of one of the delegations stand up and leave after the photograph is taken.

Stalin and the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) during another photograph with the delegates of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

The delegations take turns being photographed with the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Kaganovich, Zhdanov, Molotov, Stalin, Voroshilov, Andreyev, and Kalinin during a photograph with members of the next delegation (panorama).

Members of one of the delegations pose for the photographer together with the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Shkiryatov M.F., Malenkov G.M., Khrushchev N.S., Kaganovich L.M., Zhdanov A.A., Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Andreyev A.A., Kalinin M.I. during a photo session with members of one of the delegations of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

The delegation members disperse after the photo session.

Molotov V.M., Khrushchev N.S., Stalin I.V., Kalinin M.I., Voroshilov K.E., Andreev A.A. during a photo session with members of one of the delegations, Poskrebyshev A.N. passes by.

The leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) during a photo session with members of the delegations.

Delegates to the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in March 1939 applaud during a regular meeting in the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Panorama of the rally in honor of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) at the Red Army Collective Farm in the Byelorussian SSR. The speaker stands on the platform of a truck.

Faces of collective farmers listening to the speaker.

The next speaker speaks, rally participants standing next to the speaker applaud him.

Rally participants applauding, panorama of part of the rally.

Meeting of German and Soviet railroad workers at the new border in 1939. Face of one of the Soviet railroad workers.

Participants in the ceremonial meeting in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, dedicated to the launch of the Moscow Metro, applaud before the speech of I.V. Stalin.

Stalin I.V. speaks from the rostrum, the participants of the meeting applaud.

Stalin I.V. and Voroshilov K.E. during a reception in the Kremlin of collective farm shock workers of the Sveklovichny fields in 1935, Maria Demchenko talks with Stalin.

Stalin listens to Maria Demchenko.

Ordzhonikidze G.K., Mikoyan A.I., Molotov V.M., Kaganovich L.M. during the reception.

Stalin talks with Maria Demchenko.

Panorama of the Moscow Kremlin in 1936-1937. Molotov, Stalin and Kalinin M.I. talk in the Kremlin during a reception of one of the delegations of workers.

Stalin shakes hands with delegates of the Armenian and Azerbaijan SSRs, Mikoyan stands nearby.

Stalin applauds, embraces delegates.

Stalin shakes hands with delegates.

One of the women approaches Stalin, embraces him, Mikoyan stands next to him.

Faces of applauding delegates of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR during a reception on January 27, 1936. Stalin and Voroshilov in Mongolian robes given to them as gifts.

Voroshilov, Stalin, Ordzhonikidze, Mikoyan, Kaganovich in the Kremlin during a reception for a delegation of the Georgian SSR. Molotov, Voroshilov, Beria, and Stalin talk to each other during the reception.

A pioneer girl makes a welcoming speech, Molotov, Voroshilov, and Stalin are at the table listening to the pioneer girl.

Kaganovich, Mikoyan, Ordzhonikidze, and Stalin applaud while standing at the table, the Georgian delegate says words of gratitude, Stalin's face.

The delegate takes gifts from the table, expresses gratitude.

Stalin signs his photographs and presents them to young cotton-growing shock workers Ena Geldyeva and Mamlakat Nakhangova during a reception in the Kremlin for delegations from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

Delegates applauding.

The head of one of the delegations helps Stalin put on the robe and skullcap he was given.

A Tajik delegate applauding.

Stalin and Dimitrov G.M. with children on the mausoleum tribune during the 1936 All-Union Parade of Athletes.

Participants in the parade of athletes on Red Square (top), Stalin and Dimitrov greeting the parade participants from the mausoleum tribune.

Stalin's face.

Stalin delivering a report on the draft Constitution of the USSR at the 8th Extraordinary All-Union Congress of Soviets on December 5, 1936 (synchronously), drinking water from a glass during his speech.

Kalinin M.I. and Voroshilov K.E. in the presidium of the congress.

The congress delegates listen to Stalin.

Stalin continues his speech (synchronously).

The congress delegates applaud Stalin.

Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V., Kaganovich L.M., Voroshilov K.E., Andreyev A.A. applaud, standing in the presidium.

Applauding delegates.

Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov applauding in the presidium (panorama).

View of the Bolshoi Theater hall during the pre-election meeting of voters of the Stalin district of Moscow on December 11, 1937. Stalin pours water into a glass on the podium, delivers his pre-election speech (synchronously).

View of the Bolshoi Theater hall, meeting participants applaud Stalin.

Stalin's face I.V. (in profile, from different angles).

Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M., Kaganovich L.M. walk along the Kremlin territory to Red Square before the start of the parade and demonstration in honor of the next anniversary of the October Revolution in 1935-1937. The faces of Stalin, Molotov and Kaganovich passing by.

Stalin gets out of the car on the Kremlin territory, greets Molotov.

Ordzhonikidze G.K., Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Kaganovich L.M., Kalinin M.I., Kuibyshev V.V., Kirov S.M. talk in the Kremlin during the celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday on December 21, 1929. Molotov's face.

Kaganovich, Ordzhonikidze, Stalin, Voroshilov, Kirov continue their conversation.

Stalin, Kirov and Voroshilov board the steamship "Anokhin" before the trip to the White Sea Canal in July 1933. Stalin and Kirov on the deck of the steamship.

Views of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in 1929. Construction of the Zaporizhstal plant.

Molotov V.M. listens to the explanations of the heads of the construction of one of the industrial enterprises.

View of one of the industrial enterprises built in the year of the First Five-Year Plan.

Stalin I.V. before the start of the ceremonial meeting in honor of the 35th anniversary of the October Revolution, November 6, 1952. View of the presidium of the meeting on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater.

Bulganin N.A., Stalin I.V., Malenkov G.M., Pervukhin M.G., Kaganovich L.M., Molotov V.M. enter the presidium, Khrushchev N.S. stands at the presidium table.

Panorama of part of the presidium, members of the presidium applaud.

Participants in the ceremonial meeting applaud, standing in the hall of the Bolshoi Theater.

Members of the presidium of the meeting come out onto the stage from behind the scenes.

People in the hall take their seats.

View of part of the meeting hall (from above).

Malenkov G.M. speaks from the rostrum in the Kremlin.

Khrushchev N.S. makes a speech, standing in the presidium of the ceremonial meeting in honor of the 35th anniversary of the October Revolution, Malenkov is sitting next to him.

Malenkov G.M., Kosygin A.N., Stalin I.V. applaud together with the members of the presidium.

Malenkov G.M., Beria L.P., Stalin I.V., Kosygin A.N. applaud, standing at the table of the presidium of the ceremonial meeting.

View of one of the stands of the Dynamo stadium in 1947-1948. Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V. on the stadium stand.

Performance of athletes on the stadium field.

Stalin greets the participants of the May Day demonstration from the rostrum of the mausoleum, waves his hand.

Stalin I.V., Beria L.P., Mikoyan A.I., Malenkov G.M. walk along the territory of the Kremlin.

Malenkov G.M., Molotov V.M., Kaganovich L.M., Beria L.P., Stalin I.V., Voznesensky N.A. ascend the mausoleum tribune before the funeral meeting.

Voroshilov K.E. and Mikoyan A.I. on the mausoleum tribune.

Molotov, Malenkov, Beria, Kaganovich, Andreyev, Shvernik, Kosygin, Suslov, Shkiryatov, Ponomarenko, Stalin on the mausoleum tribune (panorama).

Malenkov, Voroshilov, Beria, Voznesensky on the mausoleum tribune.

The leaders of the party and state descend from the mausoleum tribune at the end of the funeral meeting.

The leaders of the party and state, headed by Stalin, walk to the entrance to the mausoleum.

Delegates of the Congress of Collective Farm Shock Workers in the Kremlin during a meeting with I.V. Stalin, V.M. Molotov and the leaders of the party and state in December 1935. Delegates applauding in the hall.

View of the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace during a session of the congress, applauding delegates.

Stalin, Molotov, Ordzhonikidze in the presidium of the congress among collective farm shock workers.

Faces of delegates of the Tajik SSR. A delegate of the Armenian SSR shakes Stalin's hand during a meeting of party leaders with delegates of Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1936, Mikoyan is standing nearby.

Applauding Stalin.

Presentation of gifts to a representative of the delegation of the Georgian SSR. Stalin's speech at the 8th Extraordinary All-Union Congress of Soviets on November 25, 1936 (synchronously).

Residents of Moscow go to the polling stations during the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on June 26, 1938. People drop ballots into ballot boxes.

Voting at polling stations during the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the union republics.

People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR K.E. Voroshilov rides out of the Spassky Gate onto Red Square before the military parade on May 1, 1935. A parade detachment of naval sailors on Red Square (top).

Voroshilov rides around the troops lined up for the parade.

The troops march across Red Square in front of the mausoleum (top).

The T-28 "Stalin" heavy tank drives across Red Square.

Stalin I.V. on the mausoleum tribune.

View of part of the demonstration (top).

Dimitrov G.M. and Khrushchev N.S. on the mausoleum tribune.

Demonstration participants greet the leaders of the party and state.

Stalin greets the demonstration participants from the mausoleum tribune.

Views of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (top).

Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin during a meeting with delegates to the Congress of Kolkhoz Shock Workers in December 1935. Sugar beet grower Maria Demchenko talks with Stalin in the presence of congress delegates and Voroshilov.

Stalin delivering a speech from the rostrum at a pre-election meeting of voters of the Stalin District of Moscow in the Bolshoi Theater on December 11, 1937. Reports in foreign newspapers about the death of I.V. Stalin.

Portrait of Stalin during his years of study at the Gori Theological School.

Photographs and portraits of Stalin from different years.

Photograph of Lenin and Stalin in Gorki in 1922. View of the building.

View of Red Square during the military parade (top).

Timoshenko S.K., Bulganin N.A., Stalin I.V., Malenkov G.M., Beria L.P. on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Views of Red Square during the demonstration on November 7, 1952. Slogans, banners, portraits of Lenin and Stalin above the columns of the demonstration.

Faces of the demonstration participants passing by the mausoleum and greeting the leaders of the party and state.

Leaders of the party and state on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Faces of Muscovites passing in the columns of the demonstration.

View of Red Square during the demonstration (top).

Kaganovich, Beria, Stalin, Bulganin, Timoshenko greet the participants of the demonstration from the mausoleum tribune.

Bulganin and Stalin on the mausoleum tribune.

Rudzutak Ya.E., Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M. in the Kremlin during a reception for another delegation, Molotov makes a speech, everyone applauds.

Members of the Armenian and Azerbaijani delegations applaud during a reception in the Kremlin in 1936 (panorama).

Presentation of a gift to Stalin I.V. during a reception in honor of collective farm shock workers in February 1935. A delegate from the Tajik SSR helps Stalin put on the robe and skullcap given to him during a reception in the Kremlin for delegations from Turkmenistan and Tajikistan in 1936, Stalin and those present applaud.

Kaganovich L.M. puts on the Tajik robe and skullcap given to him.

Ordzhonikidze G.K., Andreev A.A., Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M. applaud during a reception in the Kremlin for delegations from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

Molotov V.M. and Stalin I.V. walk through the Kremlin grounds accompanied by guards before the May Day parade of 1934-1935. Stalin I.V. and Voroshilov K.E. in the honor guard at the coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in 1936-1937. Kalinin M.I. and Stalin I.V. in the honor guard at the coffin.

Stalin, Voroshilov, Kaganovich carry the urn with ashes to the exit of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Stalin and Voroshilov are among those carrying the stretcher with the funeral urn.

Molotov and Stalin in the honor guard at the coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V., Kaganovich L.M. in the guard of honor at the funeral urn with the ashes of Gorky A.M. in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in 1936. Leaders of the party and state on the observation balcony in Tushino during the air parade.

Faces of young people.

Leaders of the party and state on the balcony of the control room of the Central Aeroclub.

Gorky A.M. on the tribune of the mausoleum during the May Day parade of 1932. Gorky's face in profile.

Stalin I.V., Kaganovich L.M. on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Kalinin, Stalin, Andreyev on the tribune of the mausoleum.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

Views of Moscow streets and avenues in the second half of the 1930s.

A woman walks by with a newspaper in her hands.

People buy newspapers at a street kiosk in the fall of 1937. A man unfolds a newspaper on the move.

A boy buys a newspaper.

A man reads an article about the 1937 election campaign published in a newspaper.

A propaganda truck drives along a Moscow street.

Stalin's portrait on a propaganda van.

Faces of participants in election rallies in the fall of 1937. A panorama of a rally at one of the Moscow enterprises.

Faces of female workers.

Transporting mined coal in mine cars along a mine adit.

Another Stalinets crawler tractor moves into the finished product line of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant.

Panoramas of the plant's workshops, the production process (above).

GAZ M-1 passenger cars drive out to the finished product site of the Gorky Automobile Plant.

A squadron of R-5 aircraft in flight.

T-26 tanks at a parade in one of the military districts.

Tanks drive out onto Red Square during the parade (above).

View of Red Square as armored vehicles pass through it (above).

The faces of Stalin I.V., Kosior S.V. on the mausoleum tribune during the physical culture parade of 1935. Stalin accepts flowers from a female athlete, standing nearby are Dimitrov G.M., Mikoyan A.I. Kaganovich L.M., Mikoyan A.I., Stalin I.V. on the mausoleum tribune.

Zhdanov A.A. and Stalin I.V. on the mausoleum tribune.

Stalin and Voroshilov on the mausoleum tribune.

Andreyev, Zhdanov and Stalin applaud, standing in the presidium of the next meeting of the leading workers of production in the Kremlin in 1935-1937. Kaganovich and Ordzhonikidze applaud, standing in the presidium.

The faces of the applauding delegates.

The faces of the weavers Maria and Evdokia Vinogradova.

Machinist Pyotr Krivonos during the meeting.

The faces of the applauding participants of the meeting.

Faces of Stalin, Zhdanov.

Kalinin, Voroshilov, Stalin, Molotov applaud the participants of the meeting from the presidium, sit down.

Molotov, Andreyev, Zhdanov and Stalin applaud, standing in the presidium.

Participants of the meeting in the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Face of Litvinov M.M. Stalin on the rostrum.

Ordzhonikidze, Chkalov V.P. and Stalin at the Tushino airfield on August 10, 1936. Police registration cards of Stalin with photographs.

Panorama of Solvychegodsk, where Stalin was exiled in 1908. The house where Stalin lived during his exile, a woman with a dog comes out of the gate.

A woman rides in a cart through the street mud.

A woman leaves the house.

Documents of the city police department on the exiled Dzhugashvili.

An old man in Gori tells his grandson about his meetings with Stalin.

Portrait of a student of the Gori Theological School Joseph Dzhugashvili.

Photographs of Stalin in his youth and during the civil war.

Photo portrait of Stalin in the mid-1930s.