Life in the USSR (1922-1938)

Fighting a winter fire in a village.

People carry things out of the burning building, women pass buckets of water along a chain (alternating).

A fire signal is given by banging on a suspended iron bar.

People run to extinguish the fire.

Volunteers roll a fire pump out of a barn.

Fighting the fire, passing buckets of water along a chain (alternating).

People run in smoke.

A smoking doorframe.

Burning hay, banging on a rail, passing buckets of water, raging flames (alternating).

Budyonny S.M. in 1922-1923, together with film workers, reviews footage on film.

Budyonny's face.

The urn with the ashes of Ordzhonikidze G.K. in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in February 1937. Voroshilov K.E. and Stalin I.V. in the honor guard.

Funeral wreaths in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions. V.M. Molotov and L.M. Kaganovich in the honor guard.

The urn with Ordzhonikidze's ashes, the face of M.I. Kalinin.

Ordzhonikidze's widow, Z.G. Pavlutskaya, wipes away tears.

Funeral delegations pass through the Hall of Columns.

The urn with Ordzhonikidze's ashes, Pavlutskaya wiping away tears (alternating).

People pass the urn with the ashes.

The urn with Ordzhonikidze's ashes in the Hall of Columns.

Ordzhonikidze's daughter bows her head.

Part of the mourning decorations of the Hall of Columns (panorama). L.M. Kaganovich places the urn with Ordzhonikidze's ashes in a niche in the Kremlin wall on February 21, 1937. Voroshilova E.D., Ordzhonikidze's daughter and widow, during the burial ceremony.

Mourning flags flutter.

Fir trees near the Kremlin wall.

Kaganovich steps away from the niche.

A funeral artillery salute, people's faces.

Views of Red Square during Ordzhonikidze's funeral (above), the barrels of the guns firing a salute.

Participants in the funeral rally with Ordzhonikidze's portrait.

A board covering the niche with Ordzhonikidze's ashes.

Red Army soldiers in formation.

Ordzhonikidze's awards on pillows (panorama).

A participant in the funeral rally during a moment of silence.

A plaque with Ordzhonikidze's name on the Kremlin wall.

A Red Army soldier in the honor guard at the Kremlin wall.

A funeral demonstration on Red Square.

Representatives of Moscow's Sverdlovsky district march through Red Square.

A worker at his machine tool.

Panoramas and views of pre-election rallies in June 1938, before the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (above).

A speaker speaks from a balcony.

View of the rally.

Streets of Moscow on June 26, 1938, the day of elections to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. People leave their apartment buildings and head to polling stations.

Rural voters go to vote.

Residents of mining villages go to polling stations.

Residents of the Central Asian republics go to vote.

A mounted border guard on patrol.

A border guard in the saddle.

Panorama of the Moscow Kremlin.

People walk past a campaign stand with portraits of Lenin and Stalin.

Sealing of ballot boxes.

View of part of the Kremlin wall.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 12:00. Voting begins at one of the polling stations; people enter the station.

Registration of voters and issuance of ballots.

A voter receives a ballot.

Stalin's name on the ballot.

Voters enter the voting booths.

The votes are counted.

Stalin's name on the ballot.

Voting at one of the polling stations.

Members of the electoral commission enter one of the maternity hospital wards.

Voting at the maternity hospital.