Around the USSR №40-1968 (1968)

Leningrad: Decembrists' Square – general; Palace Square – moderate; illuminated Nevsky Prospect – moderate (in rainy weather).

Guard of honor at the Eternal Flame on the Field of Mars, where the victims of the revolution are buried.

Representatives of the working people stand and march past with lowered banners.

Eternal Flame – moderate, moderate. N.V. Podgorny, L.I. Brezhnev, and A.N. Kosygin, who arrived in Leningrad for the ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Revolution, lay a wreath on the Field of Mars – moderate.

Leningraders walk and lay wreaths.

Moscow: the Kremlin with the Moskva River.

Grand Kremlin Palace – moderate.

Ivanovskaya Square in the Kremlin – moderate, Poland.

Unveiling of the monument to V.I. Lenin on Ivanovskaya Square. L.I. Brezhnev, A.N. Kosygin, N.V. Podgorny, M.A. Suslov and other leaders of the party and the Soviet state, foreign guests, Muscovites and guests of the capital at the unveiling of the monument. L.I. Brezhnev removes the veil from the monument.

Monument to V.I. Lenin – short, medium.

Far East: the sun over the sea in the early morning – medium, general.

The summit of a volcano with smoke above it – medium.

Far Eastern pine trees.

Eared wheat fields – medium, medium.

The Black Sea coast of Crimea.

Cotton field – medium, medium.

Cotton harvesting with combines – general.

The dam of an operating hydroelectric power station – short, medium.

Industrial buildings – general, medium.

Moscow: Kalininsky Prospekt with a bridge – general. (with military equipment).

A panorama of the flags of the Union Republics decorating the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, onto the facade of the Palace – Wed.

The sculptural decoration "Hammer and Sickle" – kr.

Guests conversing in the corridors of the Palace – Wed, kr.

Cosmonaut V.V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova in the hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses – Wed.

A panel depicting V.I. Lenin – Wed.

A panorama of the hall during the joint ceremonial meeting of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

In the presidium are the leaders of the CPSU and the Soviet government, the heads of foreign communist and fraternal parties.

General Secretary of the CPSU L.I. Brezhnev speaking (synchronously) – kr, Wed.

Applauding in the hall – Wed, total, A panorama of Red Square on the morning of November 7. Portrait of V.I. Lenin on the GUM building – short, zoom in.

Troops on Red Square awaiting the parade (soldiers in the uniform of the heroes of the October Storm and the Civil War) – short.

Kremlin chimes – 10:00 – Wed.

A car with the USSR Minister of Defense, Marshal of the Soviet Union A.A. Grechko leaves the Spassky Gate of the Kremlin. A.A. Grechko receives the report of the parade commander, Colonel-General E.F. Ivanovsky. A.A. Grechko drives around the troops, congratulates the soldiers on the holiday.

Troops are standing.

Buglers play the signal "Listen up everyone" – Wed.

On the tribune of the Mausoleum are the leaders of the CPSU and the Soviet government, the heads of the party and government delegations of the socialist countries, prominent figures of the international communist and workers' movement – medium, general.

The prologue of the jubilee parade, its historical part - young drummers in Budenovka caps, standard-bearers in leather jackets of commissars from the Civil War, Red Guards, soldiers in papakhas crossed with a red ribbon.

A column of revolutionary sailors in peakless caps and pea jackets, crossed with machine-gun belts, passes.

The Red Cavalry enters Red Square - cf. K.E. Voroshilov, Walter Ulbricht, N.V. Podgorny are smiling on the Mausoleum tribune - cf.

Four white horses harnessed to tachankas are on the square - cf.

Machine gunners in tachankas - cf.

Armored cars are marching - an exact copy of the armored cars of revolutionary Petrograd - cf.

Guest tribune.

The parade of the Moscow garrison troops is opened by students of the military academies of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Columns of airborne troops and a military unit of the marines of the twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet march - general, cf.

Military equipment marches: armored personnel carriers, tanks, missiles of various classes and purposes.

Foreign and Soviet guests watch in the stands - general, cf.

The lead column of athletes with scarlet banners is on the square - general.

Athletes with children march - cf.

Children present flowers to the leaders of the party and government and foreign guests and guests of the capital flowers - general, cf.

Festive lights of fireworks in the sky - general, cf.

The city of Vladivostok.

Warships at anchor in the bay - cf.

Military parade: sailors of the Pacific Fleet march - cf.

Demonstration of the city's workers - cf.

Demonstration of workers in Novosibirsk (it is snowing) – Wed.

Uzbek girls dancing in the streets (Tashkent).

Demonstrators on the streets of Kiev – Wed, kr.

Columns of demonstrators on Red Square – Wed, kr.

On the guest tribune – cosmonauts Yu. A. Gagarin, A. G. Nikolaev, A. A. Leonov, V. F. Bykovsky, P. I. Belyaev, K. P. Feoktistov – Wed.

Illuminated Moscow – general.

Illuminated Kremlin, Red Square, Gorky Street, Central Telegraph – general, Wed. (with military equipment).

Illuminated cruiser Aurora on the Neva in Leningrad – Wed.

A salvo from Aurora at 9:45 p.m. – general.

Fireworks over the Neva – general.

Fireworks in the sky – general, medium, short.

General view of festive evening Leningrad.