Soviet pioneers congratulate I.V. Stalin on his 70th birthday (1949)

View of the Bolshoi Theater hall during the ceremonial meeting in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday on December 21, 1949. View of the presidium of the meeting, Stalin's portrait above the presidium.

Kaganovich LM, Mao Zedong, Stalin IV, Khrushchev NS, Malenkov GM applaud, standing in the presidium.

Applauding meeting participants (panorama).

Meeting participants take their seats.

Young Pioneer buglers enter the stage.

A delegation of Soviet Young Pioneers enters the hall, marching along the aisles (above).

Young Pioneers bring banners into the hall, views of the hall during the Young Pioneers' entrance.

View of the stage with the presidium and Young Pioneers standing on it.

A Young Pioneer delivers a congratulatory message to Stalin in verse.

Sixth-grade pioneers during a ceremonial event in honor of Stalin's anniversary in the assembly hall of Moscow school #114. The banner of the pioneer squad is brought into the hall.

The banner is carried onto the stage.

Pioneer Volodya Verbitsky reads a congratulatory letter to Stalin (synchronously), pioneers in the assembly hall during the reading of the letter, faces of the pioneers.

The pioneers stand up and applaud after the letter is read.

A representative of the students of grade 6 "A" speaks (synchronously), views of the assembly hall during the ceremonial event.

Faces of applauding pioneers.

View of the assembly hall.

Participants of the pioneer rally of the Sovietsky District of Moscow in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday applaud while standing in the auditorium.

Pioneers with banners stand on the stage.

A student of school #124 Tanya Lagovskaya proclaims a toast in honor of Stalin from the rostrum (synchronously), pioneers in the hall.

The members of the presidium and the participants of the meeting stand up and applaud.

The faces of the applauding pioneers.

The pioneers of Gori write a letter to Stalin, the faces of the pioneers.

The pioneers put their signatures under the text of the letter.