Domestic newsreel (1940-1956)

A sign indicating the boundary of a winter rye plot sown by the team of the leading worker Alifanov in one of the districts of the Stalingrad region.

Alifanov walks across the field, checking the maturity of the ears.

Alifanov's face, rye seeds on the palm.

Alifanov and a collective farmer walk through the rye to a working combine.

Harvesting rye with a combine.

Alifanov and a collective farmer walk next to the combine.

Alifanov walks next to a reaper towed by bulls during the harvest on his team's plot, women tie sheaves.

Winnowing grain at the edge of the field.

Panorama of part of the territory of the Gorky Park of Culture and Leisure during the exhibition dedicated to the Day of the USSR Navy on July 24, 1939. The patrol ship "Storm" in the exhibition.

Visitors to the exhibition on the deck of the patrol ship.

One of the Navy commanders conducts a tour.

View of part of the patrol ship (top).

Samples of naval artillery ammunition presented at the exhibition.

Visitors to the exhibition listen to the Navy commander talking about the types and kinds of ammunition.

Excursionists inspect one of the deck guns.

Visitors to the exhibition examine fragments of the penetrated armor plating of the ships.

The Navy commander gives explanations.

Visitors at the bow deck gun (top).

Employees of the experimental breeding farm near Leningrad working on breeding new samples of grain crops.

Studying ears of corn on the stand using a special device.

Studying plants in different types of microclimate.

Plant breeders on an experimental field.

Krupskaya N.K. speaks from the rostrum in the Kremlin during a meeting of agricultural leaders.

Lysenko T.D. speaks from the rostrum in the Kremlin, gesticulating, Petrovsky G.I. sits behind him in the presidium.

View of one of the boulevards in one of the cities of the USSR in 1956. An artist makes a sketch while sitting on a bench.

View of one of the halls of the painting exhibition.

One of the paintings presented at the exhibition.

Visitors examine the painting.

Portraits on the walls of the hall.

Visitors discuss one of the paintings.

Paintings and portraits presented at the exhibition, visitors examine the paintings.

Interior view of the exhibition hall.

Residents of Moscow on the boulevards, streets and parks during the festivities on May 1, 1952. A ride on a carousel in one of the parks.

Faces of schoolgirls riding a carousel.

Riding a swing boat.

Various types of attractions in the park.

People dancing on the square in front of the park entrance.

A pleasure boat sails along the Moscow Canal.

Pleasure boats sailing along the canal.

People relaxing outside the city, dancing in a circle in the fresh air.

Playing ball in a clearing.

View of the Moscow Dynamo stadium during the ceremonial opening of the summer sports season, participants in the celebration passing by (above).

A passenger train on the way.

A steam locomotive goes along the rails.

Landing of a passenger plane.

The plane finishes taxiing and stops at the airport building.

Members of the American trade union delegation led by Leon Strauss descend the steps of the plane.

The building of one of the Moscow airports, decorated for the celebration of the 34th anniversary of the October Revolution.

High-rise buildings of Moscow.

View of a part of Gorky Street.

View of Pushkin Square (top).

A group of tourists at the monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Car traffic on Gorky Street.

Foreign delegates in a bus during a tour of Moscow.

View of a part of Manezhnaya Square and the building of the Hotel Moskva.

The building of the Bolshoi Theater, car traffic on Sverdlov Square.

View of Red Square (top).

Sentries at the mausoleum.

People on Red Square.

Announcers Levitan Yu.B. and Vysotskaya O.S. go to work in 1940. Musicians with instruments in cases go to the radio studio.

Levitan and Vysotskaya begin a radio broadcast.

View of a radio antenna (bottom up).

Levitan and Vysotskaya take turns reading the news into the microphone (synchronously).