Combat readiness exam (1930)

Red Army soldiers listen to a radio broadcast in one of the summer field camps.

Visitors in the library reading room.

A shock worker at his machine.

Types of industrial construction, workers during advanced training courses.

A turner at his machine.

A crawler tractor tows combines in the field.

An engineer works on a drawing.

An excavator in operation.

Workers read newspapers in the recreation room.

A stand with statistics on the number of strikes and lockouts in Western countries in the period 19290-1930, installed near the Palace of Labor in Leningrad.

A warship on a campaign.

The face of a White Guard (staging).

Warships on a campaign, a White Guard firing a rifle (staging).

Red Army soldiers with rifles stand in formation.

A sentry with a rifle with a fixed bayonet on duty.

The flag of the USSR Navy flutters.

Views of the bow and side of the cruiser Aurora.

View of part of the port in Kronstadt.

A sailor on duty at a deck gun.

View of the bow of the battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya.

Ships of the Baltic Fleet on a combat training voyage during maneuvers in the autumn of 1930. A banner with a slogan in the sailors' quarters.

Sailors publish a wall newspaper and combat leaflets dedicated to the upcoming naval maneuvers.

A newspaper being published in the ship's printing house.

Sailors sort out newspapers.

Sailors read newspapers.

Text of one of the articles.

Faces of naval military engineers.

Text of the slogan in the Lenin cabin.

Work of the engine room team, panorama of part of the engine room.

Faces of sailors and commanders of the ship's artillery unit.

Slogans dedicated to the upcoming maneuvers.

A poster with samples of the silhouettes of combat aircraft of Poland, Finland and Estonia.

Sailors studying a map of upcoming maneuvers and a poster with samples of combat aircraft of a potential enemy.

Sailors during a meeting dedicated to the socialist competition between naval gunners.

The text of the agreement on socialist competition, posted on the wall of the forecastle.

A signalman gives signals with flags.

Signals given by soldiers.

A sailor picks up the receiver of an internal telephone.

Stokers make steam, smoke from the funnels of a battleship.

Raising the topmast flags.

One of the submarines of the Baltic Fleet leaves for a combat training cruise.

Combat ships on a cruise.

A gunner at a deck gun.

The bow of the ship cuts through the water.

Ships of the Baltic Fleet on a combat training cruise.

A navigator at a compass.

Ships in combat formation (panorama), the commander on the bridge looks through binoculars.

Commanders on the bridge of the flagship.

View of a part of the bow deck of the combat ship.

The battleship crew at their combat posts.

Member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR S. M. Budyonny, Fleet Commander M. V. Viktorov on the bridge of the battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya.

Budyonny with one of the commanders and the fleet staff commissar.

Signalmen at the warship's lantern.

Budyonny and members of the fleet staff discuss the maneuver map.

Navy signalmen make telephone calls at the fleet staff telephone switchboard.

Releasing carrier pigeons for communication.

Signalmen at the battleship's telephone switchboard.

The signalman gives signals with flags.

The bugler gives the general alarm signal.

The sailors leave the quarterdecks and other rooms.

The red flag is on the topmast.

The battleship crew members run along the ladders and deck to their combat posts, the commanders are on the bridge.

A sailor battens down the deck hatch.

The bugler gives the signal.

The coast guard sailors run to their units on alert.

Torpedo boat commanders on the map have a combat mission.

Torpedo boats put to sea to patrol.

Sailors run to their ships when alerted.

One of the commanders battens down the hatch of the submarine.

The submarine is about to dive.

View of the new part of the submarine during the dive.

A torpedo boat rushes by.

Coastal battery gunners run to the guns and begin to bring the guns into combat readiness.

Submarines are about to dive, a torpedo boat rushes through the water.

Naval aviation aircraft in flight.

Breaker behind the stern of the ship.

View of the side of the ship going on a combat training mission.

Views of parts of the ship's deck, flooded by waves.

One of the commanders conducts observation from an armored turret.

Ships of the Baltic Fleet on a combat training voyage.

Ships of the Baltic Fleet on a combat training mission.

The commander gives the command.

The barrels of the coastal battery guns are raised.

The barrels of the deck guns.

Aiming the barrels of the gun turret of the battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya at a training target.

Raising the red flag warning of opening fire.

The coastal battery opens fire.

Budyonny S.M. watches the results of the shooting through binoculars.

One of the warships at sea.

The guns of the coastal battery and the deck guns of the battleship fire at training targets.

Laying a smoke screen from an airplane over the forts of Kronstadt.

The artillery turrets of the battleship fire, the destroyers perform counter-artillery maneuvers, the battleship's signalmen are on duty at the rifleman.

View of the battleship firing from the bow turret.

Seaplanes of the Baltic Fleet in flight.

The battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya during maneuvers.

Shipborne air defense observers in chemical protection suits at their post.

Airplanes fly by.

A gun barrel pointing upward.

A sailor in a gas mask makes a report over the ship's internal communications telephone.

The engine room crew works wearing gas masks.

Warships of the Baltic Fleet during maneuvers and firing practice, laying a smoke screen.

Raising signals on the battleship's mast topmasts to indicate the end of firing.

A gunner giving signals from the top of the ship.

The submarine's periscope above the water.

Budyonny, accompanied by a commissar, walks along the deck of the battleship.

The submarine after surfacing, sailors at the deck guns.

The submarine is in the surface position.

The ships are returning from maneuvers.

Views of the battleship's bow artillery turret (from above), bringing the turret to the traveling position.

View of a part of the bow deck (from above).

The battleship is heading for the base.

A steam launch on the deck of the battleship.

Red Navy sailors at an amateur performance evening on the aft deck.

One of the sailors performs a hopak accompanied by an accordion.

A sailor is compiling a battle sheet based on the maneuvers.

Faces of the sailors.

The battleship's stern flag is fluttering.

The launch departs from the battleship's side and heads for Kronstadt.

Ships in the port of Kronstadt, a warship at the wall.

Torpedo boats at the pier.

Commanders walk along the parade line of Red Navy sailors.

People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR K.E. Voroshilov speaks at a rally dedicated to summing up the maneuvers of the Baltic Fleet.

Views of the rally (above). S.M. Budyonny speaks at a rally in front of the Red Navy sailors in Kronstadt.

A representative of the workers of Leningrad speaks.

Warships of the Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt.

The letters VKP glowing with electric light.

A fragment of a combat leaflet with data on the number of naval sailors who applied to join the VKP(b).

An application for joining the VKP(b) with a questionnaire and biography.

Faces of Baltic sailors.

The production process in the iron foundry of one of the industrial enterprises.

Loading cargo onto railway platforms.

Tractors standing along the railway track at the station and intended for loading.

A figure of a Red Army soldier with a slogan near the wall of the Hermitage in Leningrad.

Stalin I.V. speaks from the rostrum.

One of the Red Navy sailors speaks from the rostrum during a rally on a ship.

View of the festive demonstration on November 7, 1930 on one of the streets of Leningrad.