Farewell of the Soviet people to I.V. Stalin (1953)

Funeral processions in the cities of the USSR during the farewell to I.V. Stalin, March 6-9, 1953. A funeral rally at one of Stalin's monuments.

People carry funeral wreaths and banners at the foot of the monument.

A funeral demonstration in Minsk.

Laying a funeral wreath at the Stalin monument.

A boy places flowers in a pot at the foot of the monument.

People bring and place pots of flowers at the funeral wreaths laid earlier.

View of the Victory Monument in Yerevan, a sculpture of Stalin at the top of the monument.

People carry funeral wreaths to the monument.

People climb the stairs to the monument.

A funeral rally in Vilnius, rally participants carry a funeral wreath.

Children lay a wreath at the foot of the Stalin monument.

Residents of Tashkent gather for a mourning rally at the monument to Stalin.

People walk past funeral wreaths laid at the monument, faces of people passing by.

A mourning demonstration in Tbilisi.

A truck is driving along the road, and collective farmers are sitting in the back with a funeral wreath.

Residents of Moscow are standing in line at the Column Hall of the House of Unions to say goodbye to Stalin (panorama).

Faces of people walking to the House of Unions.

Women carry funeral wreaths to the House of Unions.

People are climbing the stairs to the Column Hall.

Faces of people passing by.

Faces of representatives of the intelligentsia standing in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin.

Writers in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin, including Fadeyev A.A., Sholokhov M.A. Art workers, leading workers of production, military personnel, and figures of Soviet cinema in the guard of honor at Stalin's coffin.

People walk past Stalin's coffin.

Members of the Diplomatic Corps in Moscow carry funeral wreaths to Stalin's coffin.

Patriarch Alexy I and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church walk through the Column Hall.

Orthodox clergy in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin.

People walk past Stalin's coffin.

Laying of wreaths and mourning rallies in Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk.

Workers of Magnitogorsk in the honor guard at the foot of the Stalin monument.

Honor guard at Stalin's coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

People walk through the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the farewell to I.V. Stalin.

Shvernik N.M. in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin.

Shkiryatov M.F. among those standing in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin, faces of those standing in the honor guard.

Members of the Yugoslav delegation in the honor guard.

Rokossovsky K.K. in the uniform of the Marshal of Poland sits on a chair during the funeral ceremony.

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PUWP B. Bierut next to one of the Polish delegates.

One of the funeral delegations with a wreath in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Members of the funeral delegations with wreaths climb the stairs to the Column Hall.

Members of the funeral delegations with wreaths walk through the Column Hall.

Members of one of the funeral delegations stand in the honor guard at Stalin's coffin.