Beginning of the XXI Congress of the CPSU (01.27.1959)

View of Red Square in January 1959. View of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Delegates of the 21st Congress of the CPSU walk through the Kremlin grounds to their first session in the Grand Kremlin Palace on January 27, 1959. Delegates enter the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Delegates ascend the main staircase.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 10:00. The congress delegates give a standing ovation.

Khrushchev N.S., Mikoyan A.I., and the leaders of the party and state enter the hall and take their places on the presidium; the faces of the applauding delegates.

The leaders of the CPSU give a standing ovation, including Pervukhin M.G., Kirichenko A.I., Suslov M.A., Mikoyan A.I., and Ignatov N.G.; Khrushchev N.S. is standing at the microphone.

View of the congress hall (from above).

Delegates take their seats.

Khrushchev opens the congress.

Representatives of foreign communist and workers' parties - W. Ulbricht, Zhou Enlai, W. Gomulka, A. Novotny, M. Rakosi in the guest seats.

View of the presidium of the congress.

Delegates stand and applaud.

Delegates take their seats.

Khrushchev goes to the rostrum to deliver a report (from above).

Views of the hall and the presidium of the congress, everyone applauds Khrushchev.

Khrushchev delivers a report from the rostrum, with L.I. Brezhnev, N.G. Ignatov, and M.A. Suslov sitting behind him in the presidium.

Views of the hall of the congress, delegates listening to Khrushchev's report, faces of the delegates (alternation).

Khrushchev continues his speech, views of the hall, presidium, and faces of the delegates (alternation).

Khrushchev on the rostrum, delegates applaud.

Gomulka and Zhou Enlai summarize Khrushchev's report.

Khrushchev finishes his report, the delegates and members of the presidium stand and applaud, S. M. Budyonny is among the delegates.

Information on the progress of the congress is transmitted via teletype.

Announcers read out announcements on the progress of the congress in various languages ​​for international broadcast.

The congress's communications center.

Transmission of telegraph messages.

People buy newspapers at a kiosk on a Moscow street.

People read announcements on the congress's work in newspapers as they walk.

Passengers read newspapers on a bus and in metro cars.

View of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Panorama of the congress meeting hall.

Views of the hall and the presidium (from above). K. E. Voroshilov, N. G. Ignatov, and A. I. Mikoyan in the presidium of the congress.

Delegates listen to the speakers' speeches.

Delegates speak from the podium, including Academician I.V. Kurchatov.

Delegates in the St.

George Hall during a break in the session. S.A. Kovpak speaks with congress delegates.

Enver Hoxha and Kim Il Sung are among the delegates. S.M. Budyonny speaks with congress delegates.

Foreign delegates from a developing country touch the awards of a Soviet delegate. N. Ceaușescu and Zhou Enlai speak with congress delegates.

Dolores Ibárruri is among the congress delegates.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USA Gus Hall is among the congress delegates.

Congress delegates applaud in the hall.

Zhou Enlai addresses the congress from the podium.

The delegates give a standing ovation.

A view of the congress presidium, Khrushchev shaking Zhou Enlai's hand and embracing him.

Applauding delegates (panorama).