Daily News / A Chronicle of the day №7-1989 All power to the Soviets (1989)

Newsreel from the 1920s and early 1930s: a demonstration moving along a city street.

A military brass band playing.

Faces of rally participants.

A car at the entrance to the building of one of the first Soviets of Workers, Peasants, and Cossack Deputies.

A mandate being checked for one of the deputies.

Faces of Soviet deputies talking.

A car driving along Tverskaya Street in the early 1920s.

View of the Triumphal Arch on Tverskaya Zastava Square.

View of one of Moscow's squares (from above).

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

View of part of the Garden Ring, movement of automobile and public transport.

People walking along the street, alternating with newsreel footage of meetings of Soviet deputies at various levels in the 1920s, faces of deputies.

An intersection on the corner of Ostozhenka.

Faces of participants in a pre-election meeting, speeches by candidates for delegates to the 1st Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR are heard off-screen.

Views of Moscow streets, faces of candidates and participants in election meetings, alternating with newsreels of Soviet congresses in the 1920s.

Panorama of part of a residential area.

Panorama and view of the stadium in Luzhniki (top).

Registration of voters at one of the polling stations, document verification.

Faces of participants in the meeting to nominate candidates, sitting in the hall.

Speech by a trusted person of one of the candidates for people's deputies.

Faces of meeting participants and views of the hall.

A woman nominated as a candidate for deputy speaks from the rostrum and thanks for the trust shown (synchronously).

Faces of meeting participants.

Female employees of the election commission at work.

View of part of Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street.

Public transport and passers-by on the streets of Moscow.

A man speaks about the reasons for the shortcomings of the ongoing election campaign, the lack of experience of free alternative elections, and the imperfection of the current electoral law (synchronously).

A car drives along one of the streets.

A man reads biographies of candidates for deputy on a sheet of paper hung behind the glass of a shop window.

Panorama of the official car park.

View of the hall of one of the meetings for the nomination of candidates for deputy.

Faces of the meeting participants.

A candidate from the Children's Fund makes a speech, standing in the presidium (synchronously and off-screen).

One of the candidates for deputy speaks from the rostrum, a dispute with members of the presidium, faces of the meeting participants, views of the hall.

Speech by the chairman of the meeting on the nomination of candidates from the field of pedagogy (synchronously and off-screen).

Faces of the meeting participants.

One of the meeting participants speaks from his seat, talks about the need to nominate a lawyer, a representative of art, medicine and pedagogy (synchronously and off-screen).

Speech from his seat by Academician D.S. Likhachev (synchronously and off-screen).

Actor R.A. Bykov in the presidium of the meeting.

Meeting participants vote, panorama of the hall.

The face of actor N.A. Kryuchkov, sitting in the hall of the meeting of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR for the nomination of candidates for deputy.

Faces of the meeting participants, director E.G. Klimov speaks (synchronously).

Eremenko N.N., Gaft V.I., Ozolinya L.A. in the assembly hall.

Views of the assembly hall.

Face of director Govorukhin S.S.

Discussion of the candidacy of R. Chkheidze at a pre-election meeting in the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR, meeting participants are speaking, the face of the actor Tikhonov V.V., sitting in the hall.

Director Israelyan S.Kh. is speaking (synchronously).

The face of the director Solovyov S.A. Panorama of the meeting hall, meeting participants are voting for the next candidate.

Meeting participants during a break in the foyer of the Cinema House.

Actress Ozolinya L.A. speaks about the imperfection of the current election system, about the work of future deputies (synchronously).

Views of Moscow streets, people read newspapers on a stand.

Children play on the playground.

Metropolitan Pitirim speaks at a pre-election meeting, about the role of the Orthodox Church in the revival of the country, about the preparation of a seminar on the "ecology of the spirit" (synchronously and behind the scenes).

The face of Metropolitan Pitirim, one of the candidates for deputy speaks about the need for legal and judicial reform (synchronously and behind the scenes).

People at a stand with election posters.

Distribution of newspapers and leaflets at election rallies, people sorting out newspapers and leaflets.

Faces of rally participants.

Posters on the roof of a kiosk.

Faces of rally participants, banners with slogans in support of candidates, panorama of part of the rally.

Covers of issues of Ogonyok magazine.

Editor of Ogonyok magazine V.A. Korotich speaks about the vibrant social life, about elections in the new conditions, about obstacles from the bureaucracy in the form of district assemblies (synchronously).

Views of the Column Hall of the House of Unions during a district election meeting (from above).

Faces of the members of the presidium of the meeting, among them - Yeltsin B.N. The face of one of the meeting participants.

Candidate for deputy E.A. Brakov speaks from the rostrum about the creation of a state governed by the rule of law, about publicity in the adoption of laws of the USSR (synchronously).

View of part of the presidium of the meeting, Yeltsin in the presidium.

Yeltsin's authorized representative delivers a speech in his support from the rostrum (synchronously), view of the assembly hall.

Faces of the meeting participants.

Camera operators are filming.

View of the assembly hall during Yeltsin's speech.

Yeltsin delivers a speech from the rostrum answering questions (synchronously).

View of part of the assembly hall (from above).

Yeltsin listens to another question from his seat.

The meeting participants applaud the person who asked the question.

Yeltsin answers the question from the rostrum (synchronously).

A rally on one of the streets of Moscow.

A woman stands with a homemade poster.

A representative of the Russian People's Front party speaks about the reasons for the party's support of Yeltsin's candidacy (synchronously), the face of a rally participant, a poster in support of Yeltsin.

Faces of the rally participants, a badge with Yeltsin's portrait on the lapel of the coat of one of the participants.

Yeltsin talks to voters on the street.

Voters say goodbye to Yeltsin, wish him good luck.

View of one of the pre-election rallies of the scientific community.

Posters in the hands of students.

Cameramen are filming.

Participants of the USSR Academy of Sciences conference in the foyer before the start of work.

Conference participants in the hall, faces of the conference participants.

Speech by one of the conference participants, faces of the presidium members and people in the hall, views and panorama of the hall.

Academician A.D. Sakharov comments from the rostrum on the current situation with the nomination of candidates for deputies from the Academy of Sciences (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the conference participants.

View of part of the conference hall.

Registration of participants in the voting for deputies.

Ophthalmologist S.N. Fedorov during registration.

The voting process for candidates, participants in the voting put ballots in the ballot boxes.

The counting of votes.

Panorama of the wall of an apartment building and a pre-election rally.

Views and panoramas of the rally (from above).

Entrance to one of the polling stations.

Text of one of the ballots.

Registration of voters and receiving their ballots.

People putting ballots in ballot boxes.

People going to the polling station.

Issuing ballots.

Gorbachev M.S. and his wife vote at one of the polling stations.

Gorbachev comes out of the secret voting booth, puts a ballot in the ballot box.

Gorbacheva R.M. puts a ballot in the ballot box.

Gorbachev comes out of the doors of the polling station and approaches journalists.

Gorbachev surrounded by journalists.

Gorbachev answers a question about the number of candidates from the CPSU Central Committee, speaks about the positive effect of the new electoral law (synchronously and off-screen).

People at the polling station.

Voting at one of the polling stations.

People come out of the doors of the polling station.

View of the entrance to the Kropotkinskaya metro station.

Newsreel from 1918-1920: view of a section of the Moskva River near the Kremlin (top).

Soldiers' deputies of the Moscow Soviet with a banner.

Faces of delegates to the Soviet congresses.

Entrance to a polling station in the Palace of Pioneers.

Voters examine their ballots.

Putting a ballot into a ballot box.

People on the streets of Moscow, views of Moscow streets.