Performances by participants of the All-Union Physical Culture Parade on Red Square (12.08.1945)

A view of the center of Red Square during the performance of one of the groups participating in the All-Union Physical Culture Parade on August 12, 1945. Athletes in bathing suits imitate sea waves.

Parade participants perform synchronized movements.

Spectators on the guest stand near the mausoleum.

Malenkov G.M. and Beria L.P. applaud the participants of the holiday, standing on the mausoleum stand.

The face of a spectator.

Fragments of the performance of athletes representing one of the republics of the RSFSR, synchronized performance of gymnastic exercises.

Applauding spectators.

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

Synchronized performance of gymnastic exercises by representatives of one of the union republics of Central Asia, against the background of portraits of Lenin and Stalin, Shvernik N.M., Kosygin A.N., Zhdanov A.A. on the mausoleum stand.

Faces of the spectators.

Performance of young men and women athletes from the Uzbek SSR with elements of national dances.

Andreev A.A. and Kaganovich LM, applaud, standing on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Applauding spectators.

View of the center of Red Square during the parade participants performing rifle receptions (top).

Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov GK on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Synchronized performance of rifle receptions by the parade participants.

Spectators on the tribune.

Female gymnasts in the center of Red Square perform their exercises synchronously.

Molotov VM and Mikoyan AI on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Performance of athletes of the Georgian SSR, US Ambassador to the USSR Harriman A., Kalinin MI, Stalin IV, Malenkov GM, Beria LP, Khrushchev NS on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Zhukov GK among the military on the tribune of the mausoleum, views of the center of Red Square during the performance of athletes of the Georgian SSR. Performance of Georgian folk dances, spectators on the guest tribune.

Faces of applauding girls and children.

A gymnast on a flagpole near the red banner.

Georgian athletes march across Red Square with banners of sports societies.

Excerpts from the performance of athletes of the Azerbaijan SSR on Red Square.

American General D. Eisenhower, A. Harriman, M. Kalinin, I. Stalin, G. Malenkov, K. Voroshilov, and N. Khrushchev on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Motorcyclists with flags of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions ride across Red Square.

Female gymnasts perform synchronized exercises in the center of Red Square.

Foreign diplomats exchange impressions on the guest tribune.

Depiction of gymnastic figures by athletes standing on motorcycles passing through Red Square.

Motorcyclists speed across Red Square.

Faces of Young Pioneers.

Synchronized performance of gymnastic exercises by parade participants.

Andreyev and Kaganovich on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Female athletes during their performance.

Fragments of the parade participants' latest speech, a man holding a girl in his arms on the guest stand.

Views of Red Square during the parade participants' speech (above).

View of one of the guest stands.

Applauding spectators.

Participants in the physical culture parade in formation on Red Square during the performance of the USSR national anthem (panorama). I.V. Stalin greets the parade participants from the mausoleum's stand.

Military personnel on the guest stand hold their hands to their cap visors.

Panorama of the parade participants' formation, Stalin on the mausoleum's stand.

View of the mausoleum's stand with the party and state leaders standing on it.

View of Red Square (above).