How we govern the state (1973)

Seascape, sunrise – general.

Baltic Sea, sunset – moderate.

Lighthouse – general, cr.

Reindeer sleigh running (winter) – moderate.

Herd of reindeer in the tundra (winter) – general.

Camels passing by – general.

Palm trees – general, Poland.

Photographs: girl’s face; workers; newlyweds; nurses holding newborn babies in their arms; newborn babies lying in cribs; old man’s face; faces of people of different nationalities; shepherd with a flock of sheep; oil workers; children at the blackboard; doctor at work; helicopter; field; landscape; cotton harvesting; port; weaver at her loom – moderate, moderate, general.

Kremlin with the Moskva River – general.

USSR Supreme Soviet building – general.

Deputies climbing the stairs – general, moderate.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Chukotka Okrug Council Lina Tynel – cf.

Settlement in Chukotka – general, Poland. L. Tynel in the meeting hall in the Kremlin – kr.

Newsreel from 1971: Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, deputies in the meeting hall – cf., general.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR A. N. Kosygin delivers a report at the session on the plan for the ninth five-year plan – cf.

The presidium listens – general.

Deputies vote – cf.

Meeting hall of the chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR – general. (from the top point).

Meeting of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR: Chairman of the Council of Nationalities, deputy Ya. S. Nasriddinova delivers a speech – general, kr.

Delegates of various nationalities, envoys from all union and autonomous districts are in the hall – cf.

A panorama of the meeting room – general.

A diagram showing the structure of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR – general.

A polling station – medium, medium.

The building of the local council in the village of Odintsovo near Moscow – general.

Ivan Ershov, a candidate of agricultural sciences and an employee of the Research Institute of Selection and Seed Production, who was elected six times as chairman of the standing commission on agriculture of the Moscow regional farm, is talking to a woman near the institute building; he is talking to collective farmers in the field – medium, general, A panorama of the regional council.

Ekaterina Shelek, a deputy of a tractor driver of a Moscow region collective farm and Hero of Socialist Labor, is in the field – medium, general.

A meeting dedicated to the nomination of E. Shelek as a candidate for deputy of the Moscow regional council, people in the hall – general, medium.

The presidium of the meeting – medium. E. Shelek in the presidium of the meeting – medium.

A trusted person speaks to voters about the life and work of E. Shelek – cf. E. Shelek is speaking – cf.

Voters give instructions to a candidate for deputy – cr., cr., general.

The hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses – cf. L. I. Brezhnev speaks at a meeting with voters (synchronously) – cf.

Voters listen – cf.

The book "Constitution of the USSR" - cf.

A page of the "Constitution of the USSR" with Article 135 on the election of deputies and universal suffrage – cf.

The people vote – cf., cr., general.

Electoral commission – cf.

A woman and a man with a ballot box get into a car – cf.

A woman votes in a maternity hospital – cf.

Members of the electoral commission ride horses to remote areas – cf.

A helicopter with members of the electoral commission flies to hard-to-reach areas of the USSR – cf.

People vote in field camps; in mountain pastures – cf.

Popular festivities on election day in Georgia, Moldova, and central Russia: people dance, ride swings, and carousels – general, cf.

Fair on election day: shoppers examine wooden spoons, a painted teapot, and cups on a tray; a girl pours tea – cf., kr, general.

Museum of the Revolution in Moscow – general.

Hall of the Museum of the Revolution – general.

Photograph of members of the first ever Ivanovo City Council (1905) – kr.

Museum exhibits: paintings, photographs – kr.

Moscow City Council building – general.

Memorial plaque on the Moscow City Council building with a quote from V. I. Lenin: "From now on, the councils are organs of state power, authorized decision-making bodies" - kr.

Portrait of V. I. Lenin – kr.

Meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Education of the Moscow City Council – general, cr, wed.

Chairperson of the Committee on Public Education, teacher Natalya Demina, speaking to the deputies – wed.

Deputies listening, making notes in notebooks – wed, general.

Column Hall of the House of Unions – general, panorama (from the top).

Session of the Moscow City Council of Working People's Deputies: deputies sitting in the hall – general.

Deputy of the Moscow Council, metro builder Yuri Kudinov, together with other workers, attaching sleepers to the rails – general, wed.

Bolshoi Theater soloist Vladimir Vasiliev dancing – general.

Deputy Vladimir Vasiliev on the sidelines of the Moscow Council session – general, wed.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, director of the Dubna Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, academician Nikolai Bogolyubov writes formulas on the board at the institute, scientists listen to N. Bogolyubov's explanations – general, general.

A member of the standing commission on work with youth, doctor Maria Kalinina, is receiving a patient in her office – medium, medium.

Telephone operators are working – medium, medium.

Deputy Ekaterina Samsonova is teaching a lesson at school – medium.

Lomonosov monument near the new University building – general.

University auditorium; library – general, Poland.

Hall of the Sverdlovsk Executive Committee of the city of Moscow: newly elected deputies are sitting in the hall – general, Poland.

Deputy Antonina Ionkina is speaking – medium.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, steelmaker of the Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant Viktor Ipatov, is receiving voters – medium, medium. V. Ipatov is talking to a man in his office – general. V. Ignatov is inspecting the new apartment of one of the voters – medium, general.

Bathroom, kitchen – general, Poland.

Kindergarten: children are having lunch – general, medium, medium. V. Ignatov talking to a teacher in a kindergarten – general, cf. V. Ignatov at the factory by the furnace – ed.

Hot metal pouring – general, cf.

A worker at a machine-building plant, deputy from Volgograd Vasily Biryukov, at home with his family drinking tea – general, cf. V. Biryukov receiving voters – general, cf.

A photo of V. Biryukov from the war years – ed.

A tank monument on a pedestal – ed.

A voter at a reception with Larisa Boldova, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, a master of the Paris Commune shoe factory – general, cf. L. Boldova shows the art council a new model of women's shoes – general, cf.

The city of Ivanovo – ed.

A workshop of a weaving factory – general, Poland.

Weaver Zoya Pukhova works at a machine – kr. Z. Pukhova, deputy, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the Ivanovo Executive Committee, expresses her opinion on the project for the improvement and reconstruction of the city – kr. Z. Pukhova talks to builders at a construction site – gen., kr.

Serviceman Kurochka, deputy from Ulyanovsk, reports to voters – gen., kr.

Voters listen – gen.

A swimming pool, the design of which was developed at the request of deputy Kurochka – gen.

A swimmer in the pool – kr.

A polling station – gen.

The Polish People's Republic based on voters' letters lying on the table – kr.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, turner of the Leningrad Baltic Plant, Hero of Socialist Labor Alexei Chuev reads voters' letters, answers letters – gen., kr.

Voters at a reception with A. Chuev – gen., kr.

People go to work; work; streets of Moscow – medium, small, general.

Monument to V. I. Lenin in the Kremlin – general.

Building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR – general.

Meeting hall of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR – general, Poland.