A biographical film about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Books on a stand in a bookstore, telling about the biography of V. I. Lenin. Illustrated portraits of V. I. Lenin, his photographs at different periods of his life. Newsreel footage: workers removing a monument to Tsar Nicholas II, the cruiser "Aurora", workers and soldiers storming the Winter Palace (staging), galloping cavalry, workers and sailors on a volunteer work day, V. I. Lenin speaking, locomotives standing, a factory under construction. View of a hydroelectric power station, an employee at work at the control panel. Streets and memorial plaques on the houses where V. I. Lenin lived in Ulyanovsk, Paris (France), Krakow (Poland), Geneva (Switzerland), London (Great Britain).




Winter landscape – snow-covered forest, individual trees – general.
Panorama of Lenin’s house in Gorki (1924).
Crowds of residents of the surrounding villages go to Gorki to say goodbye to their beloved leader for the last time – general.
The coffin with the body of V.I. Lenin is carried into the train car.
People are standing at the station and along the railroad track (shot from the movement of the train).
People are lighting fires to warm up, Red Army soldiers by the fire – cf.
Crowds of people on Moscow streets – general.
Red Army soldiers, sailors, pioneers and others are standing in the guard of honor at V.I. Lenin’s coffin – cf. N.K. Krupskaya at the coffin – general.
Lenin’s modest apartment in the Kremlin – general. (general, cf.).
Living Lenin with a cat in his arms, his wife nearby – N.K. Krupskaya – cf.
The coffin with Lenin's body in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions – Wed.
The people say goodbye to Lenin (they carry wreaths, they cry).
Crowds of people in the street.
The coffin with Lenin's body on the gun carriage – Wed.
The people (men) take off their hats – Wed.
The cannons fire – a farewell salute – general. V.I. Lenin speaks to the people on Red Square – Wed, cr.
Jubilant crowds of people and soldiers in the streets – general.
Revolutionary soldiers at Smolny – general.
A woman puts up notices in the street.
Passers-by read them.
They tear down the monument to the tsar – general, Wed.
The Freedom Monument – Wed, general.
The streets of old Moscow.
A tram goes along the street, carriages and draymen pass by – Wed, general.
The Red Gate (arch). V.I. Lenin with V.D. Bonch-Bruyevich in the Kremlin courtyard – general, cf.
People on the streets of old Moscow, at the market. V.I. Lenin speaking – general.
Delegates to the congress in the Kremlin on the sidelines during a break.
Delegates, men and women, speaking at the congress.
Caucasian village – general, Poland.
Meeting in the village.
Women and old people are present at the meeting.
People are working on construction (the work is not mechanized, the earth is transported in wheelbarrows) – general, cf.
Workers are reading a newspaper.
Peasant meeting in the 1920s.
Listeners and speakers at the meeting – general, cf.
One peasant in the field, plowing the land with a plow – general, cf.
Peasants in the field.
They are plowing the peasants' boundaries.
The first tractor is driving through the village – general.




An airplane in the village.
Village children riding on an airplane.
A boy selling Soviet newspapers – Wed, cr. V.I. Lenin at the table in his office – Wed.
An interview with a concrete worker, a former peasant, about her work (synchronously) – cr.
Construction of a dam – general (Polish People's Republic).
Workers dump concrete out of a bucket, tamp the concrete with their feet – Wed.
A train is coming – general.
The inscription: "Magnitogorsk Station" – Wed.
The first builders of Magnitogorsk are getting off the cars, unloading their things – Wed.
Workers at a rally – general.
Workers are digging the earth by hand – general.
A horse is pulling a cart with soil – Wed.
They are transporting cargo on horses.
Work in the forge and other shops – general, Wed.
A locomotive is moving, with a banner on its buffer: "To storm the reorganization of agriculture" – cf.
Workers from the city are riding on horses harnessed to a sleigh, to the village to help the peasants (winter).
Red Army soldiers and workers' detachments are passing by – cf., general.
Sailors near the carriages – cf. V.I. Lenin is speaking from the rostrum, talking about the invincibility of the Red Army – cf. (synchronously).
The Red cavalry is passing by – general.
Red Army soldiers near the carriages – general., Poland.
British Prime Minister W. Churchill, who has arrived for the Crimean Conference, inspects the guard of honor – cf.
Vietnamese patriots are walking through the jungle – cf., Poland.
A rally of workers in a square in Havana (Cuba) – general.
At the first Victory Parade in the summer of 1945 on Red Square, Soviet soldiers throw fascist banners at the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum – cf. V.I. Lenin (alive) – cf.
A fire burning in the forest in winter.
Partisans – on skis during the Great Patriotic War – cf., general.
International battalion in Spain.
Demonstration in Madrid – cf., general.
Delegates to one of the communist congresses. M.I. Kalinin at the congress – cf. V.I. Lenin speaking – cf., general.
Fraternization at the front at the end of World War I – cf.
Revolution in Germany – people on the streets – cf., general.
Police disperse demonstrators – cf.
Prison bars and cell – cf.
A festive demonstration is passing through the street – cf.
Young Pioneers (of the first years of Soviet power) on Red Square – general. V.I. Lenin walks across Red Square, speaks from the rostrum (synchronously) – general.
The people listen to Lenin.
Demonstrators walk across Red Square – general.
A weaver at a loom – general, cf.
A worker at a loom – cf.
A meeting in a factory workshop – general. (Alive) V.I. Lenin works at his desk, talks – general, cf.
A house under construction – general.
Kalinin Avenue (New Arbat) – general. (run-in).
Bridge over the Moskva River (with military equipment).
Gorky Street, passers-by on the street – general, cf.
Children draw in the Palace of Pioneers.
A student answers at the blackboard – cf.
A worker at the control panel – general.
Research workers at a nuclear power plant – general, cf. (near the synchrophasotron).
Modern village – general.
Cottages for rural residents – general.
A combine harvester working in a field – general, general.
Electric welders working – general.
Installation of metal structures of a dam. V.I. Lenin speaking from the rostrum – general, general.