Celebrating the 70th anniversary of I.V. Stalin (1950)

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Sculptural group of the fountain.

Flowers in clay vases on a stone fence.

White clay vase with flowers against the background of broken flower beds.

Flowers on the flower beds.

Copy of the antique statue of a discus thrower, fragments of the statue.

Copies of antique sculptures of Greek athletes participating in the Olympic Games.

Sculptural group of the fountain.

Sculpture of a swimmer before a jump.

Faces of young men and women participating in one of the physical culture parades of the 1930s.

A woman with a child in her arms.

Faces of female athletes with wreaths on their heads, marching in formation during the physical culture parade.

Girls in summer sports uniforms march in formation with flowers in their hands.

Participants of the physical culture parade in ranks walk to Red Square.

Faces of pioneers greeting participants of the physical culture parade.

View of the upper part of the Bolshoi Theater building, flags and banners above the columns of participants in the physical culture parade.

Faces of Moscow residents standing on the sidewalk.

A column of girls in sports uniforms walks along Sverdlov Square.

Faces of people greeting participants in the physical culture parade.

Girls with models of wheat ears walk in formation during the physical culture parade.

Views of Gorky Street during the physical culture parade (top).

Stalin I.V., Mikoyan A.I., Molotov V.M., Ordzhonikidze G.K. walk through the Kremlin to Red Square before the physical culture parade in 1936. Andreyev A.A., Kalinin M.I., Chubar V.Ya. walk through the Kremlin.

View of part of Red Square during the physical culture parade (top).

Kalinin and Andreyev on the Kremlin grounds.

Stalin, Mikoyan, Molotov greet Kalinin, Andreyev, Dimitrov G.M., Khrushchev N.S. before going out to Red Square.

View of part of Red Square before the start of the physical culture parade.

Parade participants in formation with flowers in their hands.

Panorama of part of the guest stands.

Stalin, Kalinin, security personnel walk along the wall of the mausoleum.

Participants in the physical culture parade greet the leaders of the party and state.

Stalin, Khrushchev, Dimitrov greet the participants of the physical culture parade from the mausoleum tribune.

Faces of parade participants greeting the leaders of the party and state.

Stalin's face.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 13.00. Female parade participants in formation.

Collective farmers ride in the back of trucks decorated with banners with slogans in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday.

A pioneer detachment goes to a rally in honor of Stalin's anniversary.

Workers participating in the rally in honor of Stalin's anniversary greet the collective farmers who have arrived for the rally.

Faces of rally participants, children at the rally.

View of part of the rally.

The speaker speaks from the rostrum, people listen to him and applaud.

Panorama of a part of the rally.

People enter the post office of the Stalin collective farm in the Rostov region.

People send congratulatory telegrams to Moscow addressed to Stalin, text of the telegram.

Telegraph tape with the text of congratulations to Stalin.

Telegraph operators at their machines, texts of congratulatory telegrams.

People write congratulations to Stalin on telegraph forms, view of the hall of one of the post offices.

A warship of the Northern Fleet in a bay near Murmansk.

View of a cliff with a memorial obelisk erected on it in honor of Stalin's visit to Murmansk in 1933. Inscription on the obelisk.

Sailors of the Northern Fleet in the guard of honor at the obelisk.

Faces of the sailors.

A political officer gives a speech, faces of the sailors.

Salute from board a fishing vessel.

The captain gives a ceremonial speech in honor of Stalin's anniversary, the crew members listen to him.

Faces of the sailors.

A sailor at a side signal searchlight.

Views of the side and deck of a ship.

View of a rally on deck.

Festive illumination at a sawmill of one of the collective farms, sawmill workers applaud during a ceremonial meeting.

People in the collective farm library read newspapers and magazines.

Collective farmers perform a song about Stalin accompanied by an accordion at a ceremonial evening.

Faces of applauding collective farmers.

View of the streets of Prague decorated for Stalin's anniversary.

A speaker speaks at a ceremonial rally in Prague.

President of Czechoslovakia Gottwald K. opens a memorial in honor of Stalin, event participants applaud.

President of Poland Bierut B. opens a memorial to Polish-Soviet friendship, event participants stand with banners in their hands.

Inscription on the memorial.

Queue at the Soviet embassy in Warsaw (panorama).

People hand Soviet diplomats bouquets of flowers for Stalin.

Festive illumination in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday on Moscow buildings.

People with torches during the ceremonial rally in honor of Stalin's anniversary, panorama of the rally and views of the rally.

Festive illumination on one of the buildings.

General view of the Bolshoi Theater hall during the Ceremonial meeting in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday.

People in the hall stand up.

Kaganovich LM, Mikoyan AI, Stalin IV, Mao Zedong, Malenkov GM come out on stage and take their places in the presidium of the ceremonial meeting.

Beria LP, Khrushchev NS, Rakosi M, Shvernik NM take their places in the presidium of the meeting.

The guests in the boxes applaud standing up.

Malenkov, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Voroshilov KE and other members of the presidium applaud in response.

View of part of the hall (from above).

Kaganovich, Bulganin N.A., Stalin, Voroshilov, Ibarruri D. continue to applaud.

Faces of girls in the hall.

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