USSR in the second half of the 1920s (1926-1929)

The "Country of Soviets" airplane in flight.

Landing of the Soviet airplane in New York after the intercontinental flight Moscow-New York on October 30, 1929. The airplane finishes its run.

New Yorkers run to the airplane across the airfield.

The airplane finishes taxiing, the police are trying to set up a cordon.

Americans with red flags in their hands greet the Soviet airplane and its crew.

The police are pushing back the crowd, motorcyclists are in the cordon.

New Yorkers greeting the Soviet pilots (panorama).

Crew members Shestakov, Fufayev, Sterligov and Bolotov come out onto the airfield, accept bouquets of flowers, the police are trying to push back the pressing crowd.

Shestakov thanks for the warm welcome, picks up fallen flowers from the ground.

Crew members and the American representatives accompanying them on the roof of a skyscraper.

The faces of Shestakov, Sterligov, Fufayev and Bolotov.

Participants in a ski race to campaign for re-election to local Soviets walk through a village in 1928. Skiers run past one of the houses, a participant in the race attaches an agitation poster to the gate of the house.

Villagers on the porch of a house.

A girl knocks on the window of one of the houses with a ski pole.

A girl attaches a poster to the fence.

A peasant sleigh with horses at the entrance to the Klasson Hydroelectric Power Station cult and teahouse.

A sign above the entrance.

A participant in the ski race attaches a poster to the door of the teahouse.

Participants in the race run along a ski track.

Faces of peasant women, a circle and slogans against the background of the faces.

View of the Shukhov Radio Tower (bottom up).

Extras during the filming of the feature film "October" on a street in Moscow.

Moscow residents watch the filming of the scene of the demolition of the monument to Alexander III. The cameraman turns the handle of the camera, members of the film crew pull the ropes.

Workers tie ropes to the head of the statue.

View of part of the film set (top).

Filming the scene of the demolition of the monument.

Meeting of the production crew.

Children on the set during a break.

Spotlights on the set during night shooting.

The cameraman is filming another scene.

The lighting technician adjusts the spotlight beam.

The assistant shakes the head of the fake statue.

Views of the film set during night shooting (top).

The beginning of the ceremonial rally on the Finland Station Square to mark the opening of the monument to V.I. Lenin in Leningrad on November 7, 1926, the arrival of the brass band, the monument under the veil.

Faces of the rally participants.

Removing the veil from the monument.

View of the Lenin monument (bottom).

An honor guard of Red Army and Red Navy soldiers.

The Lenin monument on the square.

Faces of the participants in the ceremonial rally, a speaker speaking.

A sign above the entrance to the building of the Workers' Faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Living Oriental Languages named after Yenukidze in Detskoye Selo.

The workers' faculty building.

Students exit the building onto the porch, a snowstorm is raging.

Faces of students from Mongolia, representatives of the indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia, Tibet.

Rolling stock and workers of the Oktyabrsky Tram Depot in Leningrad, opened on November 8, 1927 (panorama).