



Interior view of the Column Hall of the House of Unions in March 1941 during the match-tournament for the title of Absolute USSR Champion in Chess.
Chess players Lilienthal A.A. and Keres P.P. at the chessboard.
Spectators in the hall.
Bondarevsky I.Z. considers the next move, walks around the stage.
Botvinnik M.M. at the chessboard.
Bondarevsky sits down and makes a move.
Spectators in the hall watch the progress of the chess games.
Smyslov V.V. and Boleslavsky I.E. at the chessboard during the game.
Botvinnik at the chessboard.
Odessa fans go to the Shevchenko Stadium, where the match between the teams of Odessa "Spartak" and the Red Army Club from Moscow will take place.
Entrance to the stadium.
Flags above the entrance arch.
The teams run out onto the field.
Faces of the fans.
Botvinnik Mikhail Moiseevich - chess player
Lilienthal Andre Arnoldovich - chess player, chess trainer, journalist
Keres Paul Petrovich - chess player, chess theorist
Bondarevsky Igor Zakharovich -- chess player, chess trainer
Smyslov Vasily Vasilyevich - chess player, chess theorist
Boleslavsky Isaak Efremovich - chess player, trainer and chess theorist
03.1941, 04.1941
Moscow , Odessa
Spring




The teams of Odessa Spartak and the Red Army Club from Moscow run onto the field of the Shevchenko Stadium in Odessa before the match.
Faces of fans in the stands.
The teams go to their halves of the field.
Ball being played.
Goalkeepers are blocking balls.
View of the stadium.
Fragments of a football match, fighting for the ball.
Fans in the stands.
The goalkeeper of one of the teams catches the ball.
Fans in the stands, fragments of the match.
A scoreboard with balls indicating the score of the match.
04.1941
Odessa
Spring