The film tells about the history of the creation and daily work of the Central Museum of the Revolution of the USSR, about its role in preserving national history, about the contribution of the museum staff to the historical and political education of the population.




Fragments of the feature film "October", the storming of the Winter Palace.
Sculpture of V.I. Lenin in one of the halls of the Central Museum of the Revolution of the USSR. The museum building.
Visitors are walking into the museum.
A sign at the entrance to the museum.
A guide meets one of the foreign delegations at the entrance to the museum.
A printing press in the museum exposition.
Faces of museum visitors.
Fragments of embroidery of the banner dedicated to the GOELRO plan.
Fragment of a painting dedicated to the October Revolution.
The face of a schoolgirl.
Visitors in the halls of the museum.
A photograph of the museum building in the early 1920s.
Photograph of V.I. Lenin.
Lenin's signature on the resolution on the establishment of the Museum of the Revolution.
Photo portraits of N.K. Krupskaya, M.I. Ulyanova, A.I. Ulyanova-Elizarova, A.V. Lunacharsky, G.M. Krzhizhanovsky, E.M. Yaroslavsky, G.I. Petrovsky, who took part in the creation of the museum.
Portrait of the first director of the museum S.I. Mitskevich.
The very first exhibit of the museum - a fragment of an artillery shell from the Presnya barricades of 1905. Photograph of a tractor in the museum exhibition.
An issue of the Iskra newspaper and party literature, sealed with the censorship seal.
Exhibits in the museum halls.
The face of a girl.
Photograph of revolutionary sailors.
Fragment of a letter from a Baltic sailor sentenced to death.
Visitors climb the stairs to the second floor of the museum.
Visitors in the museum halls listen to guides.
Photographs of the life of ordinary people at the beginning of the 20th century on stands in the museum halls.
Faces of visitors.
A painting depicting a Marxist circle meeting with Lenin.
A visitor takes photographs.
Sculpture by I. Shadr "Cobblestone - the weapon of the proletariat" in one of the museum halls.
Text of the workers' petition to the tsar on January 9, 1905. Paintings and illustrations depicting the events of January 9, 1905 in St.
Petersburg.
Revolutionary leaflets of 1905 on display at the museum.
Visitors in one of the museum halls.
A painting on display at the museum dedicated to the III (London) Congress of the RSDLP. Photograph of Lenin.
Lenin's autograph.
Cover of a brochure written by Lenin.
Paintings depicting the revolutionary events of 1905 in Russia, portraits of M.V. Frunze in his youth, N.E. Bauman.
A photograph of Bauman's funeral on display at the museum.
Photographs of the December armed uprising of 1905 in Moscow.
Visitors in the museum hall dedicated to the First Russian Revolution of 1905. The "Heroic Presnya" diorama on display at the museum, fragments of the diorama.
Faces of young people.
Museum restorers at work restoring destroyed newspapers.
Restoring the design on the Tsentrobalt banner.
The restored banner of Tsentrobalt on a stand in the museum exposition.
A passenger train passes.
Members of the scientific expedition of the museum sort out documents and relics they brought from the construction of the BAM. The brought exhibits on the table (panorama).
Museum employees examine the exhibits, hold a meeting on updating the exhibits.
Figurines from the collection of propaganda porcelain of the 1920s.
State and military awards of the USSR on a stand in the museum exposition.
Collection of orders of the young Soviet republics.
Weapons of the vigilantes of 1905 in the museum exposition.
A museum employee examines samples of personal weapons of outstanding Soviet commanders.
Covers of publications of the Central Museum of the Revolution of the USSR. Visitors examine the Certificate of Honor, which was awarded to the museum staff.
The Orders of Lenin and the October Revolution, which the museum was awarded.
Visitors examine the exposition dedicated to the First World War.
A picture on the wall.
Faces of visitors.
Photo portrait of Lenin.
Fragment of the manuscript of Lenin's work "Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism".
A leaflet from the end of World War I against the background of a newsreel of fraternization of Russian and German soldiers at the front in 1917 (combined shooting).
Newsreel of 1917: rallies and demonstrations in Petrograd in March-April 1917. Photograph of Nicholas II under escort during a walk.
Fragments of the feature film "October", demolition of the monument to Alexander III. The key to the Peter and Paul Fortress on display at the museum.
View of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Leningrad.
Newsreel of 1917: freed political prisoners leaving the prison building.
Photograph of members of the Provisional Government headed by A.F. Kerensky.
An imprint of the seal of the Provisional Government on display at the museum and an imprint of the seal of the tsarist government.
Photographs of rallies and demonstrations in Petrograd in 1917.
1917, 1975
Moscow, Petrograd, Leningrad
Summer, Spring




View of one of the museum halls.
Exhibits reflecting the development of the revolutionary events of 1917. A guide narrates.
A sculpture of Lenin in a museum hall.
Documents and photographs in the museum exhibition dedicated to Lenin's return to Russia in April 1917. Copies of the Izvestia newspaper in the museum exhibition.
Fragments of the feature film October, Lenin's arrival in Petrograd.
A photograph of Lenin during a speech at a meeting of the soldiers' section of the Petrograd Soviet.
A fragment of the manuscript of Lenin's April Theses.
Faces of museum visitors.
The text of the note of the Provisional Government to the Allied Powers on the continuation of the war.
A photograph of a demonstration in Petrograd.
Banners with slogans and banners in the museum exhibition.
A fragment of the text of a leaflet from the period April-July 1917. A photograph of the shooting of the July demonstration of 1917. Visitors in the museum halls examine the exhibits.
Fragments of the typographic text of Lenin's work "Advice from an Outsider".
A model of Smolny on display at the museum.
Portraits of members of the Military Revolutionary Committee on the wall of one of the museum's halls.
A map of Petrograd during the armed uprising of October 24-25, 1917. A Maxim machine gun on display at the museum.
Fragments of feature films about the October Revolution, a shot from the cruiser Aurora.
Visitors in a museum hall.
A painting depicting the storming of the Winter Palace.
The text of the appeal "To the citizens of Russia!" on the overthrow of the Provisional Government.
Newsreel: Lenin speaking at a meeting of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd on July 19, 1920. Texts of the decrees "On Peace" and "On Land", adopted at the 2nd Congress of Soviets.
Visitors listen to the guide's story.
Portraits of members of the Council of People's Commissars elected at the congress.
The face of a girl making notes in a notebook.
A photo portrait of Lenin.
Visitors in one of the museum halls.
The text of the "Commandments of Communism", kept in the museum, the faces of visitors.
Posters of the first years of Soviet power on the walls of the museum halls.
Visitors examine exhibits in the halls dedicated to the period of the civil war and foreign intervention.
Portraits of S. M. Kirov and G. K. Ordzhonikidze in the museum exposition.
Ordzhonikidze's resolution on one of the documents.
The face of one of the visitors.
Newsreel: Lenin speaking from the balcony of the Moscow City Council in January 1919 at a protest rally against the murder of K. Liebknecht and R. Luxemburg, a sound recording of Lenin's speech is heard in the background.
Faces of museum visitors, paintings in the museum exposition, reflecting the events of the civil war.
Newsreel of the civil war, parade of the First Cavalry Army.
Attack of units of the First Cavalry.
Machine-gun cart on display at the museum.
A veteran examines the cart.
Museum visitors in the hall dedicated to the civil war period.
Exhibits reflecting the stages of construction of the Soviet state.
Newsreel of the early 1930s: view of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.
Blast furnace "Komsomolskaya No. 2" at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
Production processes in the workshops of industrial enterprises of the USSR. Meeting the first tractor on a collective farm.
Engine driver Pyotr Krivonos climbs into the locomotive cabin. A.G. Stakhanov works at the coalface.
Production processes in the workshops of industrial enterprises, faces of production leaders.
The face of a girl.
The ceremony of taking the military oath by young soldiers in the Victory Hall.
Visitors examine exhibits in the hall dedicated to the period of the Great Patriotic War.
Colonel General I.I. Lyudnikov during a meeting with museum visitors.
Photo of Lyudnikov during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Faces of girls.
Visitors examine exhibits dedicated to space exploration.
The first tent of the conquerors of the virgin lands in the museum exposition.
Visitors examine a model of the world's first nuclear power plant, a model of the nuclear icebreaker "Lenin", a model project of a giant city for KAMAZ builders.
Bust of S.P. Korolev in one of the museum halls.
Exposition of the hall dedicated to space exploration.
Newsreel from 1961: Yu.A. Gagarin in the cabin of a spacecraft before the launch on April 12, 1961. Gagarin reports by telephone on the successful completion of the space flight.
Gagarin's overcoat and cap in the museum exposition.
Photo of Gagarin receiving an award.
Museum visitors examine exhibits and photographs in the hall dedicated to the activities of the CPSU, a photograph of L.I. Brezhnev on the podium.
Opening ceremony of a traveling exhibition of museum exhibits in Vietnam.
Visitors enter the exhibition hall.
A representative of the Cuban delegation delivers a speech at the opening of a thematic exhibition in the museum.
Exhibits in the museum halls, views of the halls.
A sculpture of Lenin in one of the museum halls.
Gagarin Yuri Alekseevich - pilot-cosmonaut
Stakhanov Alexey Grigorievich - advanced miner
Krivonos Petr Fedorovich - figure in railway transport
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich - statesman and political figure
09.1919, 19.07.1920, 12.04.1961, 1975
Moscow, Petrograd, USSR
Spring, Summer