From the history of the USSR (1917-1945)

Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E. and Kirov S.M. during a trip along the White Sea-Baltic Canal in July-August 1933. Kirov and Stalin on the deck of the steamship "Anokhin".

Construction of hydroelectric power stations and industrial enterprises during the First Five-Year Plan, types of construction sites.

Part of the production process in the foundry.

The bow of the deck of a timber carrier during its launch in Leningrad in June 1929. Gorky A.M. and Kirov S.M. during the launch of timber carriers.

Launching of a timber carrier.

Molotov V.M. among the construction managers.

View of part of an industrial enterprise under construction.

Ordzhonikidze G.K., Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Kaganovich L.M., Kalinin M.I. In the Kremlin during the celebration of Stalin's 50th birthday on December 21, 1929, also featuring V.V. Kuibyshev and S.M. Kirov, and V.M. Molotov's face.

View of an industrial enterprise.

Removal of the grape harvest from a collective farm in one of the Transcaucasian republics.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

Stalin and Ordzhonikidze in the Kremlin during a reception for one of the delegations in 1935-1936. Presentation of gifts to Stalin by representatives of one of the Transcaucasian republics, at the table are I.V. Stalin, G.K. Ordzhonikidze, A.I. Mikoyan, L.M. Kaganovich, and V.M. Molotov applauding.

Stakhanovka sugar beet grower Maria Demchenko talks with Stalin during a reception in honor of the delegates to the congress of collective farm shock workers in December 1935, Ordzhonikidze, Mikoyan, Molotov, and Kaganovich during the reception.

Delegates from the union republics applaud.

Stalin signs his photographs for the cotton-picking girls Mamlakat Nakhangova and Ena Geldyeva.

The face of one of the delegates.

Stalin hands M. Nakhangova his photograph.

Delegates applauding.

One of the delegates embraces Stalin; those present applaud.

Ordzhonikidze, Mikoyan, Molotov, and Kaganovich during a reception.

The face of Stalin applauding.

A view of the Moscow Kremlin.

A sentry with a rifle patrols his post.

A Red Army soldier, standing on the roof of a building near an anti-aircraft machine gun, watches aerial targets through binoculars; a mounted patrol on the embankment of the Moskva River in the summer of 1941. A view of the mausoleum before the parade on November 7, 1941. Troops lined up for the parade.

Kaganovich LM, Molotov VM, Budyonny SM, Stalin IV, Beria LP, Malenkov GM, Mikoyan AI on the mausoleum tribune.

Faces of Red Army soldiers participating in the parade.

Red Army soldiers in formation on Red Square.

Stalin IV delivers a speech from the mausoleum tribune, faces of Red Army soldiers.

A fluttering banner.

The engineer and his assistant climb into the locomotive's cab.

The locomotive is under steam.

Passengers run along the platform to board.

The engineer in the locomotive's cab, the signal opening.

The conductor blows the whistle for the train to depart, cars of the Rostov-Moscow train moving away.

The signal opens.

The wheels of the locomotive and cars moving along the rails.

A passenger train en route.

A clean-up day for collecting firewood.

Banners with slogans about the fulfillment of the five-year plan in two and a half years in the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the plenum of the Moscow Regional Council on February 28, 1931. Participants of the plenum in the hall.

Faces of the participants of the plenum.

Chairman of the Moscow City Council N.A. Bulganin delivers a welcoming speech from the rostrum (synchronously and off-screen).

Speech by Yaroslavsky (synchronously and off-screen), participants of the meeting listen to Yaroslavsky's speech.

Participants of the Cooperation Festival gather in Izmailovskaya Grove on June 5, 1925. Horse vaulting competition.

Tug of war.

Shooting and small-bore rifle competition.

Participants run to the targets after shooting.

The referee marks the hits.

Participants near a radio-equipped propaganda vehicle listen to a radio broadcast.

A child in a stroller.

Young people listen to a radio broadcast through the headphones of a portable radio.

An eccentric dancer performs with glasses of water on his hands and head.

Applauding spectators.

Participants of the festival squat dance to the music of a military brass band.

People stroll in the park, one of them dancing to the accordion as he walks.

Relaxing in the park on the shore of a pond.

A baby bathing in a pond near the shore.

Children swimming in a pond.

People relaxing, sitting on the grass in Izmailovskaya Grove.

Participants in the celebration at the kiosks and stalls of the Consumer Cooperative Society set up in a grove.

Meat stall vendors serve customers.

A view of the port of Leningrad.

Port officials and commission members on one of the piers.

A lesson on learning swimming styles on the shore.

A lesson on learning to swim in the water near the shore.

Girls in cork life jackets during the lesson.

A girl learns to swim with a safety rope attached to a pole.

Learning different swimming styles.

People float on inflatable balls.

The start of a swimming competition.

A peasant in a cart approaches the board of the Krasnaya Zvezda collective farm in the Ukrainian SSR. The hand of a record keeper filling out a workday issuance form.

Komsomol brigade leader Ivan Latur and collective farm worker M. Vaida receive workdays.

Weighing sacks of grain during the distribution of grain to collective farmers according to the number of workdays they have earned.

A collective farmer takes away the received grain in a cart.

Members of Latour's brigade give money to the foreman, who is heading into town to buy groceries.

The cart passes a sunflower field.

Fruit trees are fumigated.

Latour hands the brigade members the items they ordered from town.

A girl sniffs a bottle of perfume.

A girl combs her hair in front of a mirror she bought in town.

Latour distributes the items he bought to the collective farmers.

Residents of one of the union republics of Central Asia perform namaz near a mosque in the 1920s.

People in the market square.

A woman in a burqa passes.

Two carts cannot pass each other on a narrow street of the old city.

A view of one of the mosques with a minaret.

A photograph of V. I. Lenin reading the newspaper "Pravda" at the table in the Kremlin office. I. V. Stalin signs a document while sitting at the table.

Heavy earthmoving equipment during the construction of the Fergana Canal in 1939. Blasting operations during the construction of the canal.

Manual excavation work.

Welders at work installing hydraulic structures.

Production processes in the shops of a metallurgical plant in Begovat, Uzbek SSR, in the early 1950s.

Transportation of the grape harvest on a collective farm in one of the republics of the Transcaucasus.

A collective farmer plays the flute on an arba.

A view of the Moscow Kremlin.

Stalin and Ordzhonikidze in the Kremlin during a reception for a delegation in 1935-1936. Representatives of a Transcaucasian republic present gifts to Stalin.

At the table are I.V. Stalin, G.K. Ordzhonikidze, A.I. Mikoyan, L.M. Kaganovich, and an applauding V.M. Molotov.

Stakhanovka sugar beet grower Maria Demchenko talks with Stalin during a reception in honor of the delegates to the Congress of Collective Farm Shock Workers in December 1935. Delegates from the Union republics applaud.

Stalin signs his photographs for the cotton-picking girls Mamlakat Nakhangova and Ena Geldyeva.

The face of one of the delegates.

Stalin hands M. Nakhangova his photograph.

The face of an applauding delegate.

Members of the delegation from the Buryat-Mongol ASSR place national robes presented to Molotov, Voroshilov, and Stalin during a reception in February 1936. Delegates applaud.

One of the delegates embraces Stalin.

Ordzhonikidze G.K., Mikoyan A.I., Kaganovich L.M., Molotov V.M. during a reception.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

A sentry with a rifle patrols his post.

A Red Army soldier, standing on the roof of a building near an anti-aircraft machine gun, observes aerial targets through binoculars.

Kaganovich L.M., Molotov V.M., Budyonny S.M., Stalin I.V., Beria L.P., Malenkov G.M., Mikoyan A.I. on the tribune of the mausoleum during the parade on November 7, 1941. Red Army soldiers in formation on Red Square.

A banner with a portrait of Lenin flutters.

A ceremony presenting the banner to one of the aviation regiments during the Great Patriotic War.

A tank with troops on its armor goes on the attack.

Torpedo boats on a combat mission, the topmast flag flutters.

Il-2 attack aircraft move towards their target.

The infantry rises to the attack.

Various branches of the armed forces are on the offensive.

Armored vehicles on the march and on the offensive.

Soviet bombers drop bombs.

Bombs explode.

Aviation, tanks, and infantry on the offensive.

Artillery fires at the enemy, a panorama of the firing position.

Street fighting in Berlin in April 1945. Soviet troops on the streets of Berlin.

Planting the red banner over the Reichstag.

Soviet soldiers at the Reichstag building.

Standard-bearers in formation on Red Square during the Victory Parade.

A combined regiment of the Navy in parade formation.

Faces of the Victory Parade participants standing in formation.

A battalion of captured banners marches across Red Square.

Captured German banners are thrown onto the platform in front of the mausoleum, Stalin is on the mausoleum tribune.

Captured banners thrown at the foot of the mausoleum.

Troops march in parade formation across Red Square.

Faces of participants in the physical education parade marching across Red Square on August 12, 1945. A column of children passes.

Stalin greets the parade participants from the mausoleum tribune.

Faces of participants in the May Day demonstration of 1946-1947. Military leaders and leaders of the party and state on the mausoleum tribune.

Kaganovich, Malenkov, Mikoyan, Beria, Andreyev, Zhdanov on the mausoleum tribune.

Participants of the demonstration greet the leaders of the party and state, Stalin is on the mausoleum tribune.

Fragments from the film "October".

A painting of Lenin in October 1917. A detachment of Red Guards passes by. V.I. Lenin on Red Square during the Vsevobuch parade on May 25, 1919. Drill exercises in the first units of the Red Army.

Lenin shakes hands with a participant in the Vsevobuch parade over the side of a truck.

Vsevobuch troops on Red Square before the parade.

Lenin, standing in the back of a truck, delivers a speech to the parade participants.

A parade on Red Square in the early 1920s.

A photograph of Lenin at the table in his office.

The text of Lenin's memo to Stalin.

Ordzhonikidze and Stalin in the Kremlin in 1922. Map of the European part of Russia during the Civil War.

The text of Lenin's telegram to Stalin. M.I. Kalinin speaks at rallies in front of peasants in the Tver province.

Faces of peasants.

Kalinin talks with peasants.

Speech by V.M. Molotov.

In front of workers during a propaganda trip in 1920, a slogan on board a propaganda steamship, with N.K. Krupskaya standing next to Molotov.

Ya.M. Sverdlov delivering a speech on Red Officer's Day in 1918, standing on an armored car.

Panorama of Red Square during a soldiers' service before being sent to the front in 1917. Soldiers with banners and placards marching to a rally.

A column of soldiers' demonstration on Nevsky Prospect in the spring of 1917. A fragment of the manuscript of Lenin's "April Theses." Views of a rally on St.

Isaac's Square.

Speech by a sailor-propagandist in the reserve battalion of the Preobrazhensky Regiment in 1917. Balcony of the former Kshesinskaya Palace.

A graphic drawing depicting Lenin during a speech from the balcony of the Kshesinskaya Palace.

Soldiers leaving the front lines.

A train with bagmen on the roofs arrives at the station.

The building where the Central Committee of the RSDLP(b) held its meeting, which decided on an armed uprising; paintings depicting participants in the Central Committee meetings.

The building of the Lesnaya District Duma of Petrograd.

The text of Kamenev's article in the newspaper "Novaya Zhizn" (New Life) of October 18, 1917.