Moscow and Leningrad in the mid-1930s (1935-1936)

Father Frost at the New Year's celebration on January 1, 1936. Participants at the New Year's table stand and raise their glasses.

People at a banquet table.

Dancing around the revolving Christmas tree in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Dancing couples.

Applauding children.

Clowns on stilts near the Christmas tree.

Father Frost shakes hands with one of the clowns.

A party participant in a crocodile costume walks arm in arm with his friends.

A round dance around the Christmas tree.

Faces of New Year's party participants.

View of the Column Hall and Christmas tree during the New Year's celebration.

The Lenin monument at the Finland Station in Leningrad.

A tram passes the station building and the Lenin monument.

A passenger at the tram window.

A view of Palace Square from the arch of the General Staff Building.

A bus emerges from under the arch onto Palace Square.

A quadriga above the arch, decorated with red banners.

Participants in the May Day demonstration on 25 October Avenue (Nevsky Prospect).

People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs K.E. Voroshilov and First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) A.A. Zhdanov greet participants in the 1935 May Day demonstration from the tribune; columns of Leningrad youth march along Palace Square.

A column of female Voroshilov riflemen passes.

View of Palace Square during the demonstration (top).

The Constitution Monument on Sovetskaya Square in Moscow.

View of a section of Gorky Street, traffic of city and automobile transport (top).

Panorama of the wall of one of Moscow's new buildings.

Fragment of the metro entrance pavilion. L.M. Kaganovich among workers.

Fragment of the entrance vestibule of one of the Moscow metro stations.

A metro train goes into a tunnel.

Interior views of metro station halls, a passing train.

Portrait of Kaganovich and Stalin above the entrance to one of the metro stations.

View of scaffolding on one of the structures of the Volga-Moscow Canal.