Presentation of awards to workers of besieged Leningrad (1942)

Invited leading workers of Leningrad industrial enterprises enter the hall in the premises of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks); in the presidium are the first secretary of the regional committee, A.A. Zhdanov, the second secretary of the regional committee, A.A. Kuznetsov, and the chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, P.S. Popkov; One of the guests makes a speech.

Zhdanov and Kuznetsov applaud while sitting in the presidium; Popkov stands up and gives the floor to the next speaker.

Speech by a Leningrad worker.

Participants in the event listen to the speakers while sitting at separate tables.

Speech by P.S. Popkov; Zhdanov, Kuznetsov, and all those present applaud at the end of Popkov's speech.

Popkov shakes hands with one of the award recipients; those present applaud.

Zhdanov presents awards to the participants of the meeting, congratulates each of them.

Zhdanov makes a speech to the awarded workers of Leningrad, Kuznetsov and Popkov are sitting nearby.

The members of the presidium of the meeting stand up during Zhdanov's speech and applaud.

Zhdanov finishes his speech, Kuznetsov and Popkov are in the presidium, everyone stands up and applauds.

One of the awarded workers has a medal pinned to his sweater.

The man pins the order he received to the lapel of his jacket.