Soviet warrior №12-1982 In memory of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1982)

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin in November 1982, the red flag at half-mast as a sign of mourning over the Kremlin.

Flags with mourning ribbons on the wall of the building.

Portrait of L.I. Brezhnev in a mourning frame on the facade of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

View of the queue to the Column Hall on Gorky Street (above).

People go to the Column Hall of the House of Unions to say goodbye to L.I. Brezhnev.

The coffin with Brezhnev's body in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, people walk past the coffin (above).

Faces of people passing by the coffin, people lay bouquets of flowers on the floor near the coffin.

Soldiers walk past the coffin.

Portrait of Brezhnev in a tank helmet at the beginning of his military service.

Frontline photograph of Brezhnev.

Party card pierced by a bullet and covered in blood.

Newsreel: Brezhnev among the command of the 18th Army (freeze frame).

Photographs of Brezhnev during the Great Patriotic War.

Brezhnev in 1943 in Novorossiysk.

View of liberated Novorossiysk.

Brezhnev meeting with veterans and participants in the battles on Malaya Zemlya.

Brezhnev lays flowers at the eternal flame on the grave of the defenders of Malaya Zemlya.

Brezhnev during a meeting with veterans during the Victory Day celebrations in the 1970s.

Veterans give Brezhnev his photograph at the 1945 Victory Parade.

Photograph of Brezhnev at the Victory Parade.

Photograph of Brezhnev in the dress uniform of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Newsreel: Brezhnev's arrival at one of the units of the Missile Forces, Brezhnev greeting the officers.

Brezhnev's speech to veterans.

Missile officers at the control panel.

The launch of an intercontinental missile.

Photograph of Brezhnev at the table in the Kremlin.

The takeoff of a spacecraft.

Photograph of Brezhnev presenting an award to Yuri Gagarin.

Monument to Yuri Gagarin.

Brezhnev during a meeting with workers during his latest trip to the USSR. The face of a girl greeting Brezhnev.

Brezhnev's face.

Residents of cities in the USSR and socialist countries greet Brezhnev.

Brezhnev during meetings with leaders and workers of socialist countries.

Brezhnev signs the Final Act of the All-European Conference in Helsinki in 1975. Panorama of the hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during the session of the 26th Congress of the CPSU (top).

The red flag over the Kremlin, lowered as a sign of mourning.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

Text of the Information Report on the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee on November 12, 1982 and a portrait of Yuri Andropov, published in the Pravda newspaper.

View of a part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee in the guard of honor at Brezhnev's coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions (panorama).

Views of the funeral rally on Red Square on November 15, 1982, the day of Brezhnev's funeral, the rally participants take off their hats.

View of Red Square (top).

The coffin with Brezhnev's body is transported on an artillery gun carriage along Red Square.

View of Red Square during the funeral rally.

Andropov Yu. V. delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum (synchronously), Tikhonov N. A., Chernenko K. U. stand nearby.

View of the Spasskaya Tower.

Cars on the streets of Moscow, trains at the stations give a funeral whistle during Brezhnev's burial, people's faces on the streets.

Faces of military personnel standing in formation during the funeral whistle.

Units of the Moscow garrison march along Red Square, paying their last military honors to L. I. Brezhnev.

Ustinov D. F., Andropov Yu. V. Members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and representatives of the high command of the USSR Armed Forces on the Mausoleum tribune during the passage of troops, troops march along Red Square.

View of Red Square (from above).

Armored vehicles on Red Square.

Combat vehicles at the parade to mark the end of the latest exercises.