From the history of the Land of Soviets (1925-1932)

Constructing clay structures, filling the formwork with liquid clay.

Adding straw to the clay.

Tamping the clay in the formwork with feet.

The legs of women tamping clay.

Construction of the Turksib railway line near Semipalatinsk in 1929, laying rails on wooden sleepers.

Removing wooden sleepers from the stack and loading the sleepers onto carts.

Unloading rails from railway platforms.

Laying rails on sleepers.

Transporting rails in horse-drawn carts along the laid railroad bed.

Builders tightening the fastening nuts on the rails.

Driving spikes into sleepers.

A collective farm meeting in one of the villages in 1930. The chairman of the meeting reads aloud a newspaper article.

The newspaper with the text of I.V. Stalin's article is in the chairman's hands.

Faces of collective farmers.

The chairman continues reading the newspaper.

Text of an article about benefits for collective farms.

Collective farmers during a meeting.

The chairman explains the meaning of articles published in the newspaper.

Tractors on railway platforms en route from Crimea to the Central Black Earth Region for plowing the land.

A banner with a slogan about the transfer of tractors.

A train carrying agricultural machinery and tractors approaches a station.

Tractors with running engines on platforms.

Tractor drivers prepare the machines for unloading.

A tractor rolls off the platform.

A flag with a slogan flutters.

Tractors after unloading.

The faces of tractor drivers who arrived from Crimea.

A view of an industrial enterprise.

An animated propaganda film explaining the concept of a continuous work week.

Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR L.M. Karakhan and members of the Soviet delegation during the Sino-Soviet Conference in Khabarovsk in December 1929. Chinese government representative Mo Dehui during the Sino-Soviet meeting.

Karakhan opens the meeting; Chinese representatives listen to his speech.

A ceremonial meeting in honor of the 12th anniversary of the creation of the OGPU. Shvernik N.M. at the podium during the presentation of the challenge banner of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions to the work collective of the AMO plant.

Shvernik delivers a speech.

The participants of the meeting rise and applaud.

Shvernik presents the banner to a representative of the plant.

Representatives of German communists at the meeting.

A speaker addresses a rally of workers of the Leningrad Shipyard named after Andre Marty in November 1930. Another speaker reads excerpts from a newspaper article about the upcoming trial of the "Industrial Party".

Text of the newspaper article from November 12, 1930. Faces of the rally participants.

Another speaker speaks.

The workers vote to adopt the resolution of the rally.

Speech at the rally by a representative of the Navy.

Faces of the workers.

Workers sign a collective statement on admission to the ranks of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Panorama and views of the construction of the Moscow Automobile Assembly Plant, begun on October 1, 1929. Various works are carried out at the plant's construction site.

The face of a builder.

Assembly of the metal structure of one of the buildings.

Fishermen of Astrakhan prepare their nets for the autumn fishing season.

Volga river landscapes.

Fishing boats are out fishing.

Fishermen haul in their nets.

Fishermen in one of the boats remove their catch from the net.

The net with the catch is transferred from the boat to the launch.

A banner on the wall of the 1st State Bearing Plant with a slogan about the fulfillment of Stalin's six conditions in 1932. Production process in the forge shop of the Saratov Repair Plant in April 1932. The face of a worker.

A worker processes a part with a mechanical hammer.

Production of wheels for steam locomotives.

A locomotive repair crew at work.

A repaired locomotive leaves the depot.

Participants of the 1st All-Union Rally of Pioneers at the Khodynka Airfield, August 18-25, 1929. An aliekta airplane in flight.

Deputy People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR S.S. Kamenev speaks from the rostrum at the airfield to the participants of the rally.

The aliekta flies over the airfield.

Pioneers greet the passing airplane.

One of the participants of the rally ties a pioneer tie on S.S. Kamenev.

The pioneers give a salute.

A dance ensemble performs on stage.

Musicians from a Caucasian ensemble play traditional instruments, and a female member of the ensemble dances.

Armenian ashughs (folk singers) perform a song, accompanying themselves on traditional instruments.

A panorama of the Volkhov Hydroelectric Power Station.

The first snow on the streets of Moscow in 1929-1930. A monument to A.S. Pushkin on Tverskoy Boulevard, people passing by.

Trams go to the Triumphal Gate.

A view of the Moscow Kremlin.

Ice floes float down the Moskva River.

A fisherman on the bank of the Moskva River.

Street cleaners clear the sidewalks of snow.

A drayman carries firewood.

A view from the arch.

Children sledding down a hill.

A view of a section of Red Square before the military parade on May 1, 1929. K. E. Voroshilov reviews the parade and begins a troop inspection.

Voroshilov greets the troops lined up on Red Square.

Military attachés of foreign embassies on Red Square.

Military buglers sound the signal. I. V. Stalin and the leaders of the USSR on the Mausoleum tribune. K. E. Voroshilov delivers a speech, troops on Red Square.

Banners with slogans hang above the columns of the May Day demonstration.

The demonstration moves across Red Square.

Party and state leaders greet the demonstrators from the Mausoleum tribune, a view of part of the demonstration (from above).

The demonstration moves across Red Square.

A bugler, standing at the entrance to a tent, gives the signal for the morning reveille at a summer camp for pre-conscripts.

Pre-conscripts march in formation for morning exercises.

Performing exercises, a girl's face.

Girls in formation before a chemical protection training session (panorama).

Conducting a gas mask training session.

Girls putting on gas masks.

Girls wearing gas masks stand in formation and remove them on command.

Pre-conscripts at the firing line firing rifles during a fire training session.

Rifle barrel.

A shooter's face.

Pre-conscripts at the firing line.

Firing at targets.

One of the pre-conscripts loads a rifle.

A shooter's face during aiming.

The shooters stand up and leave the firing line.

Young men and women walk across the field to the targets.

Inspection of the targets.

Komsomolets Ligay evaluates his shooting results.

A figure on the target with bullet holes and a recording of the shooting results.

Shooter T. Korneeva among her comrades after the fire training session.

A target with Korneeva's shooting results.

Young men and women, rifles in hand, sit on the ground during a break in training.

Female athletes march along the stadium track in 1931. Fans in one of the stands, a GTO (Ready for Labor and Defense) sign above the stands.

Young men and women perform synchronized exercises on the stadium field during a sports festival.

Views of the stadium field during synchronized gymnastics exercises (from above, panorama).

The arrival of a passenger train at Shatura station.

Trotsky L.D. and his entourage go to a rally dedicated to the launch of the Shatura Power Plant on December 13, 1925; faces of people passing by.

Power plant workers check the machines before startup.

Trotsky and his entourage inspect the equipment in the power plant's turbine hall.

Trotsky listens to an explanation from A.V. Winter, the head of construction at the Shatura Power Plant.

Machine hall equipment.

A view of part of the transformer substation.

Trotsky and his entourage during an inspection of the equipment in the power plant's turbine hall.

View of the rally in front of the Shatura Power Plant (from above).

Military parade on Red Square, May 1, 1930. Students of military academies march past.

Spectators' faces on the guest stand. K.E. Voroshilov greets the troops.

A view of Red Square during the parade.

Military pilots march in parade formation in front of the stand.

A column of troops led by buglers and drummers marches in front of the stand.

Troops march across Red Square. I.V. Stalin and A.I. Mikoyan greet the troops from the stand.

Units of the Navy march past.

Young Pioneers march across Red Square, saluting. S.M. Budyonny and I.S. Unshlikht, standing on a dais, greet the passing Young Pioneers.

Cavalry and machine-gun carts gallop past in front of the stand. M.I. Kalinin, E.M. Yaroslavsky, and G.K. Ordzhonikidze on the stand during the parade.

Mk V tanks roll across Red Square.

Tanks pass in front of the tribune (top).

A May Day demonstration of workers on Red Square, with pioneers wearing gas masks walking alongside the column.

Anti-aircraft guns on caterpillar tracks are moving onto Red Square for the parade.

Airplanes fly over Red Square, with spectators watching the flight.

Columns of the May Day demonstration on Red Square (top).

A column of representatives of the "Union of Red Frontline Soldiers" and communists of Germany passes.

One of the columns of the demonstration passes through Red Square.

Rykov A.I., Mikoyan A.I., Kalinin M.I. on the tribune during the demonstration.

The face of one of the participants in the demonstration.

A model of a tractor in one of the columns of the demonstration.

The movement of the columns of the demonstration across Red Square.

Enterprise banners are flying above the columns of demonstrators.

Rykov greets the participants of the demonstration from the tribune, waving his cap at them.

The participants of the demonstration greet the leaders of the party and the state.

Banners with slogans hang above one of the demonstration columns.

A farewell meeting for foreign delegations at the station square following the celebrations of the 12th anniversary of the October Revolution in November 1929. A representative of the Moscow metalworkers hands over a banner to an American delegate.

Kruglyakov, a worker at the Trekhgornaya Manufaktura factory, speaks at the meeting.

Participants in the meeting.

Kruglyakov, standing in the back of a truck, hands over a red banner to a representative of the English textile workers.

An English textile worker delivers a speech in response.

Participants in the meeting wave their hats in farewell.

Foreign delegates leave for the station building.

Delegates board the train cars. V.K. Blucher, commander of the Separate Far Eastern Army (SFEA), is greeted at the Khabarovsk station after returning from the theater of military operations on the CER. Blucher is among those greeting him.

Blucher holds a meeting of the RVS ODVA.