Physical Culture Parade on Red Square (07.12.1937)

A view of Red Square during the physical culture parade on July 12, 1937. Members of the Lokomotiv sports society march. L. M. Kaganovich and G. M. Dimitrov are on the mausoleum tribune.

Parade participants carry portraits of the leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Parade participants carry a five-pointed star with a portrait of N. I. Yezhov (top).

A platform with boxers and gymnasts in one of the parade columns; boxers fight on the move in rings moving across Red Square. A. I. Mikoyan, I. V. Stalin, and K. E. Voroshilov are on the mausoleum tribune.

A skating rink and a toboggan slide are part of the parade; athletes are sliding down the moving slide, spectators are applauding.

The slide moves across Red Square.

Skiers are walking across Red Square, the faces of applauding spectators are visible.

Members of the Lokomotiv society march across Red Square.

Parade participants with a ZIS-101 automobile on a moving platform.

A view of a section of Red Square during the physical culture parade.

Columns of participants in the physical culture parade with portraits of polar heros move across Red Square.

Another column passes in front of the mausoleum (top).

Female hockey players with sticks on a moving platform.

Parade participants, depicting the sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman", on a moving platform.

Representatives of the "Confectioner" association pass.

Mikoyan A.I. on the mausoleum tribune.

Representatives of the chefs' and confectioners' sports societies pass along Red Square, girls on moving platforms holding cakes in their hands.

Andreev A.A., Voroshilov K.E., Zhdanov A.A., Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M., Kalinin M.I. greet the parade participants from the mausoleum tribune.

A view of Red Square during the parade (top).

Columns of athletes in athletic shorts march past, with Stalin applauding.

A view of Red Square during the athletic parade (from above). A. A. Andreev, K. E. Voroshilov, A. A. Zhdanov, I. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov, and M. I. Kalinin greet the parade participants from the mausoleum tribune.

A model of the globe with gymnasts standing on it is seen at the parade.

A column of female athletes follows the model of the globe. A. A. Zhdanov and I. V. Stalin are on the mausoleum tribune.

Parade participants with javelins, volleyballs, and nets march across Red Square.

Representatives of the Energia sports society with a model of a power transmission line support march across Red Square.

A girl's face in profile.

Members of the Start sports society enter Red Square.

A model tank made of flowers moves across Red Square.

Tank models move across Red Square (top).

Parade participants propel the model tank inside its tracks.

Members of the "Wings of the Soviets" sports society carry flags with the society's symbols.

A girl stands on one of the models.

A model of the globe with the inscription "USSR." Young Pioneers in plywood airplanes on a carousel moving across Red Square.

A young man's face.

Representatives of the civil aviation fleet walk next to a moving model airplane.

Cadets from Moscow flying clubs march across Red Square, carrying a portrait of N.S. Khrushchev in front, and a veteran on the guest stand.

Cyclists with colorful flags ride across Red Square.

Views of Red Square during the physical education parade.

A column of the "Spartak" society with banners on Red Square.

Molotov and Zhdanov greet parade participants from the Mausoleum tribune.

A model of the USSR with a plywood figure of Stalin.

Representatives of the Union Republics of the USSR in national costumes on a moving model.

A human airplane at the physical education parade.

Members of the Dynamo Society walk across Red Square holding banners.

A model of the Moscow Canal lock enters Red Square, followed by columns of athletes (above).

A man with a camera.

A view of Red Square and the battlements of the Kremlin Wall during the physical education parade (above).

A column of pole vaulters on Red Square.

A soldier holding a child.

A banner with a map of the USSR surrounded by athletes moves across Red Square.

Models of GTO badges of three levels in one of the columns of athletes.

A view of the mausoleum and part of Red Square during the parade (above).

A photojournalist takes pictures.

Skiers on roller skis walk across Red Square.

Parade participants perform synchronized exercises with a rifle while moving.

A column of cadets from sniper clubs walks across Red Square.

Applauding spectators.

Parade participants carry flowers near a giant portrait of Stalin mounted on a truck platform.

Young men and women from the Dynamo Society march in a column holding artificial sunflowers and ears of grain.

Young mothers carry their children on their shoulders as they march in a column across Red Square.

A column of mothers and children passes the Mausoleum.

Athletes perform exercises on horizontal bars mounted on a moving platform.

Performing gymnastics exercises and long jumps while moving.

Female athletes perform exercises on a combined gymnastics apparatus while moving across Red Square.