Evening sacrifice (1987)

Panorama of the central part of Leningrad and part of the Neva.

A battery of anti-aircraft artillery guns at a firing position before the start of the salute firing in honor of the May 1 holiday, 1984. Cadets of the Leningrad Artillery School at the guns during firing.

Giving the command for the next salvo, a salvo of gun salute.

Spent cartridges near the wheel of one of the guns.

People on the Neva embankment on Vasilievsky Island during the salute, panorama to the right of the rostral column.

The salute battery fires at the command of an officer.

Barrels of artillery guns during the salute.

Actions of the crew of one of the guns during the salute firing.

View of the Neva and the spit of Vasilievsky Island, from which the salute firing is conducted.

Another salute from the guns.

View of the Spit of Vasilievsky Island during the evening fireworks (above), torches on the rostral columns are burning.

Legs of May Day demonstration participants heading home in the evening.

View of part of Nevsky Prospect during the evening May Day fireworks, people walking along Nevsky Prospect, going home.

People pass by a parked trolleybus, passengers' faces in the trolleybus windows.

Views of Nevsky Prospect, people walking along the roadway of the avenue, making noise, dancing as they go.

People walking along the roadway of Nevsky Prospect after the end of the May Day celebrations, view of part of Nevsky Prospect during the festivities (above).

View of part of Nevsky Prospect from inside a parked trolleybus.

Young people trying to talk to girls.

A man with a camera.

Young people dancing as they go.

Panorama of part of Nevsky Prospect and the building of the Kazan Cathedral, people walking along the avenue, shouting "Hurray", waving their hands at the camera lens.

Faces of Leningrad residents walking along the avenue, views of parts of Nevsky Prospect filled with walking people, trolleybuses standing by the sidewalks.

A young man with a guitar in the human stream, everyone shouting "Hurray".

View of part of Nevsky Prospect decorated with evening electric illumination (above).

Faces of people on Nevsky Prospect celebrating May 1. A woman and a girl are standing, leaning against the wall of a house, looking at people walking along the avenue.

Human flow on Nevsky Prospect.

A young man with a guitar on the avenue.

Spent gun casings.

View of part of Nevsky Prospect late in the evening on May 1, people walking along the avenue, a police siren sounds, festive illumination is on, trolleybuses and cars are moving along the two right lanes.

Silhouettes of people getting on a trolleybus against the sky.

View of part of Nevsky Prospect late in the evening on May 1, people walking along the avenue.

Ambulances and police patrol cars with sirens on pass by.

City transport moves along night Nevsky Prospect, lighting in the cabin of a passing trolleybus.

A trolleybus approaches a stop, passengers are boarding.

Passengers in the trolleybus.

The face of one of the passengers sitting by the window.