Pre-conscription military-sports training in the USSR (1925-1928)

The wake-up call at the pre-conscription youth training camp.

A column of pre-conscripts marching to morning exercises.

Young men and women doing exercises during morning exercises.

Girls in formation before the start of a chemical defense class (panorama).

The girls put on gas masks on command.

Faces of girls putting on gas masks.

Girls in gas masks stand in formation, take off their gas masks on command, put them in a bag, an instructor walks along the formation.

Pre-conscripts at the firing line during a marksmanship training class.

The face of a young man aiming a rifle.

Pre-conscripts at the firing line during shooting.

One of the pre-conscripts loads a rifle and aims.

Those who have finished shooting stand up and leave the firing line.

Pre-conscripts walk across the shooting range to the targets.

Inspection of the hit targets.

Komsomol member Ligay, who showed excellent results in shooting, examines the target he hit.

The shooting results on the target hit by Ligay.

Komsomol member Tanya Korneeva among her comrades.

The target with the results of Korneeva's shooting.

Transmission of target designations for artillery by field telephone.

Firing from field guns with direct fire.

MK V tank moves along the range.

Exercises on the interaction of heavy and light tanks with an armored train.

Tanks at the range overcome barbed wire fences and folds in the terrain.

Infantry practices interaction with tanks.

An airplane flying by.

Conducting a bicycle race.

Cyclists ride with their front wheels raised.

A column of cyclists and motorcyclists passes by.

Demonstration performances of motorcyclists.

Start of one of the stages of the bicycle race.

Faces of fans.

Participants of the bicycle race cross the finish line.

A banner over the road leading to the shooting range of the Moscow Provincial Union of Hunters.

A plywood arch at the entrance to the range.

A view of the range during shooting.

Clay pigeons in the hands of a range worker.

Loading clay pigeons into the throwing machines.

Another participant comes to the firing line.

A participant shoots at clay pigeons, the throwing machine in operation.

Performing synchronized gymnastics exercises on the stadium field by participants in the sports festival.

Athletes and fans during a rest.

A girl drinks water from a bottle.

Participants in running competitions at the start.

Participants start.

A view of the 100-meter distance.

Participants finish.

A column of competitors walks through the stadium of the Agricultural Exhibition, the emblem of the 2nd Moscow State University is on the T-shirt of one of the participants.

Start of the running competitions for various distances.

Recording the result at the finish.

The finish and the next start of the running competitions for various distances.

One of the judges records the results in the report.

The chief judge makes an announcement through a megaphone.

Running competition among girls.

Participants finish.

Face of the girl who won the competition.

High jump competition, athletes clear or knock down the bar.