On the implementation of plans for building socialism in the USSR.




Newsreel from 1925: general view of Red Square (top).
General view of part of Manezhnaya Square (top).
Trams on the streets of Moscow.
Distribution of newspapers to tram passengers.
The face of a newsboy.
View of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
Photograph of delegates to the 14th Congress of the RCP(b) in the meeting hall.
Newsreel from 1925: delegates to the 14th Congress of the RCP(b) listen to the speaker’s speech.
View of part of the presidium of the congress.
Delegates voting.
Demobilized Red Army soldiers before leaving for the construction of the Magnitogorsk Combine.
People with things and tools in their hands walk along a railway carriage.
Construction of blast furnaces of the Magnitogorsk Combine in 1928. General view of one of the constructed blast furnaces of the combine.
Laying rails of the Turksib.
A camel sniffs the rails.
General view of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.
The connection on the Turksib.
The first train opening service on the Turksib.
The face of a Turksib builder.
View of a section of a locomotive traveling along the Turksib.
Industrial landscape.
Production process in the iron foundry of one of the plants.
Faces of foundry workers.
The first tractor produced by the Stalingrad Tractor Plant leaves the shop.
Agricultural machinery moves along the embankment of the Moskva River.
General view of the meeting hall of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in December 1927. Congress delegates listen to the speaker.
Stalin I.V. speaks from the rostrum of the congress.
Delegates listen to Stalin.
Mikoyan A.I. speaks from the rostrum of the congress.
Delegates listen to Mikoyan.
Krupskaya N.K. speaks from the rostrum of the congress.
Delegates applaud.
The speaker speaks at a village meeting.
Peasants vote for the creation of a collective farm.
Workers in the plant shop receive directions to the village to organize assistance in the creation of collective farms.
Sheet with workers' signatures.
Plowing a field with tractors.
Peasants of Central Asia receive new agricultural equipment.
Collective farmers work on threshing grain.
View of the Moscow University building.
Lecture at the workers' faculty.
Students of the workers' faculty during classes.
Gorky AM in his office at his desk.
Portrait of Timiryazev KA Newsreel from 1927: Professor Bekhterev VM speaking.
Michurin's face.
Tsiolkovsky explains the design of an airship in the early 1930s.
Academician Pavlov I.P. during one of the experiments.
Bekhterev gives a lecture.
The steamship Chelyuskin goes through the ice.
Schmidt O.Yu. stands by the plane with polar aviation pilots after landing on an ice floe in 1937. Participants of the 1937 drifting expedition in the Arctic.
A flying plane.
Chkalov VP and Baidukov G.F. near the plane after the flight over the North Pole.
Demolition of an old building in Moscow using an explosion.
Construction of the Moscow metro in 1933. Moscow metro stations after their opening.
General view of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and the rally on the occasion of its opening.
Industrial landscape (top).
Working excavator.
Tractors harvesting.
View of a locomotive moving along the rails (top).
Production process at a weaving factory.
Shoemaker at work.
Production process at factories and plants.
Faces of workers.
Miner Stakhanov A.G. works at the coalface in 1935. Stakhanov's team leaves the coalface after setting a record for coal mining.
People applaud.
Stakhanov with a bouquet of flowers.
Faces of Stakhanovites - tractor driver Angelina P. and agronomist Demchenko M. Engine driver Krivonos P.F. climbs into the locomotive cabin.
The Vinogradov sisters, weavers, at work.
View of the Order of Lenin.
Newsreel from 1934: general view of the meeting hall of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Kuibyshev V.V. speaks from the rostrum.
Congress delegates vote.
Kirov S.M. votes as part of the Leningrad delegation.
The delegates in the hall applaud.
Tukhachevsky M.N. and Budyonny S.M. observe the actions of the troops during maneuvers.
Tanks move through the forest.
Airborne assault during maneuvers of the Kyiv Military District in 1930. Tanks on Red Square during the May Day parade, the Maxim Gorky airplane flies over the square.
Rural festival.
Smiling faces of peasants.
Children with flags during the May Day demonstration in Moscow.
A female athlete with a banner on a model of the globe.
A column of athletes marches.
Athletes march with banners of sports societies.
Athletes are walking with bouquets of flowers.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich - statesman and political figure Mikoyan Anastas Ivanovich - statesman and political figure Krupskaya Nadezhda Konstantinovna - revolutionary
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