We are the Soviet people (1972)

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 12:00. Panorama of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (top).

Faces of the demonstration participants.

View of Red Square and the mausoleum during the demonstration.

Surf off the Pacific coast.

Ships in the port.

Monument to Peter the Great in Leningrad, view of a part of the Neva embankment (top).

A nuclear-powered icebreaker moves through the Arctic ice.

Construction equipment in the deserts of Central Asia.

View of a part of the desert (top).

Faces of rural workers and workers of industrial enterprises of the USSR. The production process in the open-hearth shop.

Cotton harvesting.

Faces of cotton growers.

Northern hunters with the skins of the fur-bearing animals they have hunted.

Production processes at oil fields and factories.

Grape harvesting.

Installation of high-voltage power transmission line mast equipment.

Production processes at a weaving factory, weavers at work.

Checking the operation of light bulbs in the Quality Control Department.

Views of streets, squares and buildings in cities of the USSR, people on the streets.

Faces of people of different nationalities.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin and St.

Basil's Cathedral.

View of the Alexander Column through the arch of the General Staff Building on Palace Square in Leningrad.

The dome of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

View of part of the bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Newsreel of 1917: streets of Petrograd in March 1917, trucks with soldiers and Red Guards drive by.

The national flag of the USSR flutters over the Smolny building, the entrance to Smolny.

Photograph of a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR of the first composition, headed by V.I. Lenin.

Portrait of Lenin.

Texts of the first decrees of the Soviet government on peace and on land.

Newsreel of 1918: the return of Russian prisoners of war from Germany.

A rally on the streets of Petrograd, interspersed with photographs and frames from the feature film "October".

View of the Smolny building.

Text of the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia.

Newsreel of 1918-1919: rallies in the industrial centers of Russia.

Painting of Lenin in his office.

Text of a fragment of Lenin's work "Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People".

Building of the Tauride Palace.

Photograph of the hall of the Tauride Palace during the III Congress of Soviets.

Newsreel of 1918-1919: columns of the May Day demonstration, workers leaving the factory.

Units of the Red Army pass along the street.

Representatives of the German and Soviet delegations head to the White Palace in the Brest Fortress for peace talks, photo of delegates during the peace talks in Brest.

View of one of the streets of Moscow.

Entrance to the Bolshoi Theater during the 5th All-Russian Congress of Soviets on July 10, 1918. Checking the passes of the congress delegates.

Sverdlov Ya.M. talks with delegates in front of the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

Delegates entering the theatre building.

Photograph of Lenin and M.I. Ulyanova walking to a congress session.

Text of the published Constitution of the RSFSR. View of a section of the Kremlin wall.

Newsreel: faces of delegates from the union republics of the USSR during a session of one of the congresses of the RCP(b).

Texts of the Declaration and Treaty on the Formation of the USSR. Signatures under the Treaty of representatives of the republics.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

The national flag of the USSR over the Kremlin.

Coat of arms of the USSR. View of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Newsreel: peasants greet the first tractor in the mid-1920s.

Construction of industrial enterprises during the First Five-Year Plan, concrete work at the construction site.

Workers trample concrete with their feet.

A worker’s faculty student makes a drawing, the student’s feet are in bast shoes.

Female workers of the worker’s faculty students during a lesson.

Laying rails on sleepers by hand.

A camel sniffs the rails.

A steam engine passes along the new branch of the Turksib, horsemen gallop behind it.

Panorama of the construction of a section of one of the irrigation canals in Central Asia in the 1930s.

View of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Panorama of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station control tower.

A Tu-114 passenger plane takes off.

Views and panoramas of industrial enterprises (above).

Views of a field during harvesting by combines (above).

View of a section of an oil pipeline under construction, wrapping pipes with insulation.

View of one of the chemical industry enterprises (above).

Cotton harvesting by combines.

Production processes in the mining industry.

Production processes in the shops of a metallurgical plant.

Newsreel from 1941: German bombers flying.

Results of air raids (top).

Panorama of the burning station square in Stalingrad, a sculpture group of children on the square in 1942. Rocket artillery fires at the enemy.

Soviet soldiers with a red banner run up the steps of the Reichstag in May 1945. The Victory Banner over the Reichstag.

Meeting of the victorious soldiers.

View of Red Square on May 9, 1945, jubilant people.

Soldiers of the trophy banners battalion carry and throw banners of Wehrmacht units to the foot of the mausoleum during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. Victory celebration in the square of one of the European cities (top).

Stark of the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin walks along the red carpet at Vnukovo Airport after completing his space flight.

Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR go to a meeting of the regular session.

Deputies in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

View of the meeting hall.

Faces of the deputies.

A female deputy speaks from the rostrum.

Hero of Socialist Labor Kh.

Tursunkulov in the hall during the meeting.

View of the presidium of the meeting, a deputy on the rostrum.

Panorama of the meeting hall (top).

Brezhnev L.I., Kosygin A.N., Podgorny N.V., Suslov M.A. in the presidium of the meeting.

Panorama and views of the meeting hall of the Council of Nationalities (top), faces of the deputies.

View of a part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Meeting of one of the standing commissions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, faces of the commission members. "Bulletin of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR", published in all languages of the union republics.

Volume of the "Collection of Laws of the USSR".

View of the presidium of the meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (top).

A deputy speaks from the rostrum.

Deputies listen to the speech of their colleague.

Views of the meeting hall (top).

The national flag of the USSR over the Kremlin.

Ships on the Volga.

Volga landscapes.

Panorama of a city block (top).

View of a city square.

Production processes in an open-hearth shop.

Harvesting with combines.

A combine operator at the controls.

A truck approaches a combine.

Threshed grain is poured from the combine sleeve into the back of a truck.

A train with ore passes.

Ore on platforms.

Landscapes of Yakutia.

View of a quarry.

Loading stones into dump trucks.

Panorama of a part of a city block in the city of Shevchenko, Kazakh SSR (top).

New apartment buildings.

View of a part of the cargo port.

Views of a nuclear desalination plant.

Newsreel from the 1910s: a view of one of the Baku oil fields.

Manual oil extraction from wells.

Views of modern Baku oil fields (top).

Oil rigs and platforms on the Caspian Sea (top).

Oil workers' faces.

Oil platforms at the pier.

Production processes in the shops of metallurgical enterprises of the Azerbaijan SSR. Harvesting using various agricultural machinery.

Views and panorama of the oil refinery.

Panoramas of the streets and enterprises of Baku.

View of a section of the pipeline.

Street views of the city of Zhodino in the Byelorussian SSR. An engineer walks along the conveyor for assembling BELAZ heavy-duty dump trucks.

Transporting the dump truck body using a crane beam.

Interior view of the assembly shop (top).

A new dump truck comes off the conveyor.

The dump truck leaves the shop gates.

The driver behind the wheel of the dump truck.

The BELAZ dump truck drives along the highway.

A train passes.

A cargo plane takes off.

Trains on the way.

A ship at sea (top).

Views of the building of Moscow University, a monument to M.V. Lomonosov.

Students on the main staircase of the university.

Students and teachers going to classes.

Students' faces.

Panorama of the classroom during a lecture.

Students listening to the teacher, taking notes.

The teacher explains the subject.

Panorama of the auditorium of the medical institute.

Faces of the teacher and students.

Students of various higher education institutions during lectures.

Students of higher educational institutions of the union republics of the USSR during practical and laboratory classes.

Astronomers conduct daytime observations.

A scientist conducts an experiment.

Ears of ripe wheat.

Heads of one of the agricultural enterprises and agronomists at a grain threshing floor.

Seagulls astern of a ship.

Craftsmen create works of national art.

A chaser at work.

Weaving a Turkmen carpet, faces of carpet weavers.

The face of a master wood carver.

A Chukchi craftsman creates an engraving.

Engravings depicting the life of the peoples of Chukotka.

Winter landscape.

Weaving of Russian lace, lace makers at work, faces of the craftswomen.

Samples of lace.

Panorama of the library reading room (above).

One of the visitors makes notes.

The face of a reader.

Sheets of an old Russian book.

The reading room of a higher educational institution of one of the union republics of Central Asia.

Faces of readers.

Portrait of Alisher Navoi.

Editions of the Uzbek epic "Farhad and Shirin" and the Kyrgyz epic "Manas" in Russian.

View of the book depository of one of the libraries.

Meeting a delegation in one of the union republics of the USSR, presenting guests with bread and salt.

Performance of folk art ensembles of the union republics of the USSR, dances of the peoples of the USSR. Lezginka on a rope.

Performance of a Chukchi folklore ensemble.

Performances of dance ensembles.

Views of the song festival in the Estonian SSR (top).

Panorama of the audience in the open air (top).

Panorama of the center of Moscow.

View of the building of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

Views of the meeting hall and the presidium of the 24th Congress of the CPSU (top).

Congress delegates during the meeting (panorama).

Faces of the congress delegates.

Brezhnev L.I. delivers a speech from the rostrum on strengthening the friendship of the peoples of the USSR (synchronously).

Delegates applaud, panorama of the meeting hall.

Faces of the delegates.

View of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (above), faces of the demonstration participants.