The film covers the period of the USSR history after the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) until the funeral of Politburo member V.V.Kuibyshev. The central theme of the film is the death of Politburo member, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee S.M.Kirov, and the myth of I.V.Stalin's involvement in the murder of his comrade is refuted.
Portrait of People's Commissar of Heavy Industry G.K.Ordzhonikidze (artist V.P.Efanov).
Portrait of I.V.Stalin (artist G.I.Rublev).
Portrait of S.M.Kirov (artist I.I.Brodsky).
Painting "Kirov's Funeral" (artist P.P.Sokolov-Skalya).
Portrait of V.V.Kuibyshev (artist I.I.Brodsky).
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Petersburg, house on Kirovsky Prospekt, which houses the S.M.Kirov museum-apartment, interiors.
Smolny, window of the office where S.M.Kirov worked.
Winter, St.
Petersburg, monument to S.M.Kirov.
The film includes footage from 1934-35: the chimneys of a giant metallurgical plant are smoking, work in the workshops, steel is poured, a combine harvester is driving across a field, a milkmaid is feeding cows on a farm, students are giving a lecture in the auditorium of one of the institutes, academician I.P. Pavlov in a monkey nursery, a scientific town of geneticists, the steamship Chelyuskin is going through the ice, the head of the expedition on the Chelyuskin O.Yu.
Schmidt and a member of the expedition on board the steamship, the Chelyuskinites are unloading a sinking steamship, the Chelyuskinites' camp is on an ice floe, an airship with cargo for the expedition is in the air, the expedition members are taken on board an airplane from an ice floe, a ceremonial meeting of the Chelyuskinites in Moscow, members of the Politburo headed by I.V. Stalin The expedition members are welcomed, a parade on Red Square in their honor, Politburo member V.V. Kuibyshev speaks on the platform, a parade on Palace Square in Leningrad, the first secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee S.M. Kirov and a group of senior officials on the platform, the funeral of S.M. Kirov, the funeral procession moves along the street, a rally of Leningrad workers on the occasion of the murder of S.M. Kirov, the funeral of V.V. Kuibyshev in Moscow, a funeral farewell on Red Square.
Cities, Highest state bodies and institutions, Central government bodies and institutions, VKP(b), Protest rallies, Political propaganda, agitation, Metallurgy, Sea transport and routes, Air transport, Plant growing, Animal husbandry, Genetics, Biology, Anthropology, Sculpture, Painting, Museums, Geography, expeditions
1935