Case No. 1500 (1988)

Panorama of hills and a village in front of them.

Storks in a nest on the roof of a house.

View of a field after harvesting.

Wheat field.

Rural landscapes, the sun shining through the clouds.

View from the windshield of a car, it is raining.

Portraits of Academician N.I. Vavilov.

Photograph of Vavilov among students of the Agricultural Institute.

Photographs of Vavilov in different years, alone and among colleagues.

Photographs of Vavilov with his wife and children.

Photographs of Vavilov among colleagues, plant breeders, participants of the international congress of 1921. Photographs of Vavilov's parents.

Photographs of Vavilov and his brother Sergei.

Photograph of Vavilov with his father in 1928. Newsreel of the 1920s-1930s: Lysenko T.D. among students in an experimental field.

Lysenko tells his interlocutors about his method.

Samples of plants bred by Lysenko using the vernalization method.

Lysenko examines plant samples in a greenhouse.

Panorama of a wheat field.

Lysenko in the field with his father examining the future harvest.

The face of Denis Lysenko.

Lysenko meeting with pioneers - members of the young vernalizers circle.

Lysenko tells the pioneers about vernalization methods.

Lysenko talks with a colleague about the use of vernalization in cotton growing.

The Order of Lenin on Lysenko's jacket.

Lysenko's face.

Lysenko in a greenhouse demonstrating to scientists the varieties of wheat he bred.

Carrying out spring and winter sowing at a field camp of one of the collective farms.

Trailed combines at harvesting.

Harvesting with a horse-drawn reaper.

Collecting fallen ears of corn in the field.

Winnowing grain of the new harvest at a grain threshing floor.

Victims of hunger.

A salesperson in the meat department of a store demonstrates the goods - sausage and lard.

Slicing ham and sausage using an electric knife.

A saleswoman serves a customer.

The chairman of the meeting reads out the decision.

OGPU officers lead detained kulaks.

A peasant hut with a ruined roof.

A peasant woman puts on bast shoes.

Peasants leave their native village en masse.

Settlers board a freight car.

A painting depicting Stalin and the leaders of the USSR during a meeting.

A photograph of Vavilov during his visit to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Photographs of Vavilov during his trips abroad.

Photographs of Vavilov during his work as director of the Institute of Applied Botany and New Crops.

Photographs of Vavilov during foreign expeditions to collect plant and grain samples.

Photograph of N.I. Vavilov in the mid-1930s.

Newsreel from the 1930s: applauding delegates to the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in February 1934. M.I. Kalinin, L.M. Kaganovich, K.E. Voroshilov, I.V. Stalin, V.M. Molotov, G.I. Petrovsky in the presidium of the congress.

Applauding delegates in the meeting hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. T.D. Lysenko speaks from the rostrum at the 2nd Congress of Collective Farm Shock Workers in 1935 (synchronously), G.I. Petrovsky sits behind him in the presidium.

View of the congress meeting hall, delegates applaud.

Applauding Stalin and Voroshilov.

Applauding Stalin.

Interior view of the Column Hall in the House of Unions.

Professor of Philosophy I.I. Present. speaks from the rostrum.

Texts of articles by I. I. Prezent directed against Vavilov’s scientific activities and published in the Soviet press.

Texts of articles by Lysenko and Prezent in the journal “Yarovizatsiya”.

Typewritten text of a denunciation of Vavilov to the NKVD written by G. Shlykov, photograph of Shlykov.

Photographs of Vavilov at the table in his office.

Newsreel from the mid-1930s: T. D. Lysenko sitting in a chair.

Photograph of Vavilov.

Storage facility for seed samples at VASKhNIL. Interiors of Vavilov’s memorial office.

Microscope and images of cereal crops on the desk.

Views of Edinburgh.

Sun glare in the water.

The mansion of Prince Yusupov, which housed VASKhNIL in the late 1930s.

Interiors of the grand staircase.

Paintings on the walls and ceiling lamp.

Newsreel from 1937-1938: Lysenko at his desk.

Meeting of VASKhNIL. Faces of the meeting participants.

Lysenko chairs the meeting, panorama of the scientist speaking from the rostrum.

Face of a woman.

Lysenko speaks from the rostrum.

Applauding meeting participants.

Lysenko among meeting participants during a break.

Interior of Lysenko's office in the VASKhNIL building.

The door slams shut.

Interior view of part of the interrogation cell.

Water pours from the tap.

Newsreel: faces of Beria L.P., Molotov V.M., Mikoyan A.I., Zhdanov A.A. on the stands of the Dynamo stadium in the late 1940s.

Beria applauds, behind him is Bulganin N.A. Panorama of the Moscow Kremlin.

Kalinin M.I. presents awards in the Kremlin.

Face of Maria Demchenko, awarded the Order of Lenin.

Stalin I.V. makes notes on documents during the meeting.

The wall of the prison cell.

Photos of Vavilov N.I. with his wife Elena Ivanovna and among colleagues.

Photo of Vavilov's wife.

The interior of the death cell.

The bars on the window from the cell to the corridor.

Documents from Vavilov's case about his death.

Newsreel from 1939-1940: Kaganovich L.M., Beria L.P., Voroshilov K.E. on the mausoleum tribune.

Launching of a ship with the inscription "Beria" on the stern.

Academician Sergei Vavilov gets out of a car in 1945, climbs the steps of the building of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Vavilov S.I. and Lysenko T.D. in the presidium of the meeting.

Presidium of the ceremonial meeting of the Academy of Sciences.

The face of Vavilov N.I. (freeze frame).

President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vavilov S.I. speaks from the tribune.

Lysenko speaks from the tribune.

The face of S. I. Vavilov sitting in the presidium.

The face of N. I. Vavilov (freeze frame).

Presentation of congratulatory addresses and gifts to Lysenko during the ceremonial meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Applauding meeting participants.

Lysenko accepts congratulations from S. I. Vavilov (freeze frame).

The face of N. I. Vavilov (freeze frame).

Voting at the August session of VASKhNIL in 1948. Applauding meeting participants. S. N. Vavilov applauds, standing on the stage in front of the presidium table, among the members of the USSR Academy of Sciences. S. N. Vavilov delivers a speech, standing in the presidium of the meeting, faces of the meeting participants.

The meeting participants applaud after the speech of S. N. Vavilov.

Lysenko reads the text of the speech, standing in the presidium.

Lysenko speaks from the rostrum in the Kremlin at the 2nd Congress of Kolkhoz Shock Workers (image converted to negative).

A birch trunk fallen into the mud.

Panorama of a part of the cemetery in Saratov.

A stone cross over the grave.

Newsreel from 1951: funeral wreaths at the coffin of S.I. Vavilov, ribbons on the wreaths.

Participants in the funeral farewell ceremony for S.I. Vavilov in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

An honor guard at the coffin of S.I. Vavilov, the honor guard includes A.Ya.

Vyshinsky and T.D. Lysenko.

Lysenko's face (freeze frame). S.I. Vavilov in the coffin.

May Day illumination in Moscow in the early 1950s.

Panorama of Red Square in electric illumination, filled with people.

Evening artillery salute over Moscow in honor of May Day.

Appeal of the Lennauchfilm studio to the KGB press bureau with a request to allow access to the file of N.I. Vavilov under No. 1500.