Under the banner of October (1978)

Festive illumination on the streets of Moscow (the Kremlin, Kamenny Bridge, a high-rise building, Kalininsky Prospekt, the telegraph office on Gorky Street, the Bolshoi Theater, St.

Basil's Cathedral, Spasskaya Tower, the building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR) – various, Poland.

A ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 60th anniversary of October in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses: the presidium of the meeting, those listening in the hall, L.I. Brezhnev speaking – various, Poland.

Participants in the meeting on the sidelines of the KDS – medium, small.

Celebration of November 7: L.I. Brezhnev and members of the government on the tribune of the Mausoleum, troops and military equipment marching along Red Square, athletes performing, demonstrators with banners marching – various, Poland.

Bearing production: workers at their machines in the plant workshop – small.

Turbine assembly, turbine part – various.

Blocking the Yenisei, building a dam – various.

Power transmission line; turbine hall of a power plant, control panel of the plant – general, cf.

Metallurgical plant; furnaces, steelmakers at work, metal is poured, control panel – various.

Coal mining: a combine is working in the face – general.

Photo: V.I. Lenin – general.

Newsreel 1917-1923: Soldiers at Smolny, sailors pass by – general, cf.

Interventionists: Germans, Japanese – general, cf.

Village, peasant with child; railroad – various.

Red Army soldiers march across Red Square, V.I. Lenin watches the parade – general, cf.

Soldiers ride in a train – general, cf.

Tachankas pass by; cavalry – general, cf.

On the building of the Bolshoi Theatre there is a slogan with the inscription: "Greetings to the delegates of the 8th Congress" – Wed, kr. V. I. Lenin speaking – Wed; listeners – Wed.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Construction of the five-year plan – general.

The first tractor passes – general, Wed.

A welder at work – Wed. A. Stakhanov is working in the coal face, a conveyor with coal is moving, Stakhanov is met at the exit from the coal face – various.

Hydroelectric dam – general, Wed, Poland.

Construction of the dam (they are transporting wheelbarrows with soil) – Wed, kr.

The first power station – Wed.

A woman puts out a kerosene lamp, boys are reading by electric light, a dynamo – Wed, kr, Poland.

The first pig iron is being made (Magnitka), workers at the furnace, the Komsomolskaya No. 2 blast furnace – various.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Artillery firing, Victory banner over the Reichstag; people greeting Soviet soldiers – various.

Victory Parade on Red Square – various.

Newsreel 1900-1910: Coal mining in pre-revolutionary Donbass: a miner drags a coal trolley – cf.

Newsreel from 1900-1910: Oil extraction from an oil well in the Baku oil fields – medium, red.

A peasant ploughs the land with a plow; a sower walks across the field – various.

The first tractor, jubilant people; the first combines pass by – various.

Newsreel from the 1930s: The first automobiles – medium, red.

The first train of the Turksib, construction of the highway; builders congratulate each other – various.

Opening of the Fergana Canal, cutting the ribbon, smiling people, turning on the water – various.

Oil fields of Siberia – general (from a helicopter).

Oil rigs in the sea, an oil worker works at a drilling rig – various, Poland.

Gas pipeline – general.

Welders at work – medium, Poland.

Oil refinery – medium, Poland.

Female workers at work in a factory workshop – medium, small, Poland.

Rolls of oilcloth, plastic – small.

May Day demonstration in Moscow: demonstrators on Red Square; L.I. Brezhnev on the tribune – small, Poland.

Demonstration in Tashkent: girls in national costumes dancing – various.

Cotton harvesting with a combine – various.

Irrigation canal – small, Poland.

Cotton fields – general (from a helicopter).

Cotton is collected in piles – medium.

Cotton is pouring out – small.

Livestock complex, cows in stalls; a milkmaid is installing a milking machine, milk is flowing through pipes – various.

Poultry farm: a man is delivering feed, chickens – various, Poland.

A girl with a sheep – small.

Harvesting grain – general, small, Poland.

A combine harvester is working, grain is pouring out – medium, small, panorama.

New-brand tractors are in the factory yard; tractors are being loaded – medium, small, panorama.

A new Niva combine harvester is leaving, the combine assembly shop – medium, large.

Assembly line of the automobile plant in Tolyatti: young workers at the conveyor – medium, small.

Assembling a KAMAZ truck: a column of KAMAZ trucks is passing by – general, small.

BAM: laying rails, a section of the laid road, a train with the sign "Let's go to BAM" – various, panorama.

A train is passing by – medium.

The Arktika icebreaker in the ice – medium.

An airplane is taking off, a supersonic TU-144 airplane – medium, panorama.

The rocket is launching – small, panorama.

Cosmonauts are passing by (before the launch) – small.

The first Constitution of the USSR (1918); the new Constitution of the USSR – kr. L.I. Brezhnev on the podium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, applauding in the hall and in the presidium – Wed, kr, PNR.

People of different professions at work (workers, collective farmers, scientists) – Wed, kr, Poland.

Doctors walking along the hospital corridor; during an operation; a doctor listens to a child – misc.

Children playing with blocks, swimming in a pool – general, kr, Poland.

First-graders entering school – Wed.

Schoolchildren during lessons – Wed.

Students in the classroom listening to a lecture – misc.

People in the reading room – kr.

Lab technicians in a chemistry lab, microscope – kr.

New residential area, new buildings – general, Wed, Poland.

New houses in the village – Wed, Poland.

Shops, customers buying groceries – Wed, kr.

People at a shop window – Wed.

Passers-by on the streets of Moscow – Wed, kr.

Demonstrators on Red Square (November 7), L.I. Brezhnev and members of the government on the Mausoleum tribune – general, Wed, Poland.

People at a rally in Angola – general, Wed. L.I. Brezhnev signs an agreement between the USSR and the FRG in the Kremlin. L.I. Brezhnev talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. L.I. Brezhnev is met at the station by Finnish President U. Kekkonen; an honorary escort; L.I. Brezhnev in a car, with people greeting him, among the participants of the Crimean Conference – various. L.I. Brezhnev among the participants of the All-European Conference in Helsinki – general, Wed, Poland.

Photo: the hall where the Genoa Conference was held; People's Commissar Chicherin – general, The final part of the festive concert in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses – general, Wed, Poland.

Fireworks over the Spasskaya Tower, people watching – various, Poland.