A special issue on the opening of the XXIV CPSU Congress in Moscow.
March 30, 1971, at 10 am, in Moscow, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, began work the next XXIV Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Congress was opened by introductory speech Politburo member, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR NV Podgorny
Moscow. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Delegates at the meeting. Advocates Brezhnev (synchronously). Applauding delegates.
Bridge over the Moscow river.
Subway line to the station "Youth" is a train, see high-rise building on Uprising Square - LS.
Kremlin Embankment - LS.
Portrait of VI Lenin on Lenin museum building - LS. (With motion).
Banner: «XXIV Congress of the CPSU» - CU. (Departure).
Flags on flagpoles - LS. (On the street and in the Kremlin).
According to the Kremlin go to the Kremlin Palace of Congresses delegates - LS.
CBC building, includes delegates - LS.
PNRM. by building on the coat of arms of the Soviet Union over the entrance - LS.
Delegates at the Palace, climb the escalator, talking on the sidelines, are - MS.
Among the delegates - Heroes of Socialist Labor, winner of the military.
Cosmonaut AG Nikolaev talks with a group of delegates - MS.
Writers talk Aitmatov and Gamzatov.
Defense Minister Marshal AA Grechko greets delegates - MS.
Meeting room, delegates are seated - PNRM.
Kremlin chimes - 10:00 - CU. (Zoom).
The congress delegates stood applauding - Various.
Departure from the mosaic panel with a bas-relief of Lenin on the hall - CU., LS.
The presidium applaud: LI Brezhnev, NV Podgorny, AN Kosygin, PE Shelest, MA Suslov, G. Voronov, AP Kirilenko, KT Mazurov, DS Polanski, A. Pelshe, IV Kapitonov, BN Ponomarev, Sh.R. Rashidov, VP Mzhavanadze, PM Masherov DF Ustinov, Y. Andropov, PN Demichev, VV Grishin, DA Kunayev, KF Katushev, AN Shelepin - MS.
The congress delegates sit - LS. (With a / t).
NV Podgorny opens Congress (synchronous) - LS., MS. with a / t
Listen - Various.
Among the delegates in the hall of cosmonaut Alexander Eliseev, Hero of Socialist Labor, winner - MS.
The presidium of the congress - the heads of delegations of foreign communist, national-democratic and left-wing socialist parties: Nicolas Ceausescu, Todor Zhivkov, Walter Ulbricht, Janos Kadar, Georges Marchais, Gustav Husak, Svoboda, Edward Gierek, Enrico Berlinguer, Le Duan, Max Reimann, William Chestnut, Luis Corvalan, Jesus Faria and others.
NV Podgorny offers remembrance of the dead comrades and a minute of silence.
All rise - different.
Delegates vote - elect the governing bodies of the Congress - the Presidency, the Secretariat, the editorial and the Credentials Committee, argued the agenda and rules of procedure of the Congress.
Delegates applauded - LS.
Bas-relief panels VI Lenin - CU.