Soviet Udmurtia (1938)

A flock of sheep on a pasture.

A collective farm herd of cows grazes on the river bank, a shepherd lights a hand-rolled cigarette.

Horses at the hitching post.

A groom strokes a horse.

A pig herd gives feed to the pigs.

The pigs eat from the trough.

The pig herd holds a piglet in her arms.

A female field brigade goes to work, a truck passes by, a blossoming bird cherry tree.

A poster calling for people to go to the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Faces of collective farmers listening to an agitator conducting political information.

The agitator explains to the collective farmers the structure of the highest authorities of the RSFSR, faces of the collective farmers.

The face of a female agitator.

Collective farmers listen to the agitator.

A postman heads to the "Red October" collective farm in the Debessky district.

A postman walks along a village street.

Handing over newspapers to one of the subscribers, newspapers and magazines in the postman's bag.

A postman enters the gates of a local polling station.

A sign with the name of the station on the gate.

A postman gives a woman a newspaper.

A lesson at a collective farm literacy course.

Collective farmers read words they have written in their notebooks.

A pioneer shows letters to an old man, teaches him to read and write.

A panorama of new houses on one of the streets of Izhevsk.

Views of the building in which the central polling station is located.

A poster above the entrance to the polling station.

A polling station in the Stalin district.

Portraits of Stalin and Voroshilov above the entrance to the polling station.

A poster above the entrance.

A sign with the name of the room for filling out ballots.

A panorama of the voting booths.

A poster in honor of the Red Army.

A bust of Stalin and ballot boxes in the polling room.

Checking the electoral lists, issuing ballots, people approach the table and check if their names are on the lists.

The face of an election commission employee.

Searching for the name of the next voter on the list.

An election poster at the depot of the Uva-Uzginskaya Railway.

Processing of parts in the depot workshops, workers at their machines.

The street clock shows 15:00. A mechanic inspects a locomotive whistle, steam is escaping from the whistle.

Depot workers leave for a pre-election meeting at the end of their shift.

Party Committee Secretary P.I. Kuznetsov delivers a report at the meeting on preparations for the elections.

Workers and machinists listen to Kuznetsov's report.

A meeting of the wives of workers and employees of the Izhevsk Steel Plant dedicated to the development of the Election Regulations, faces of the meeting participants.

An agitator reads out the text of the Election Regulations.

The meeting participants listen to the speaker.

Finished motorcycles in the assembly shop of the motorcycle plant.

Panorama of the pre-election meeting in the assembly shop of the plant.

Agitator E.R. Meshuris gives a talk on the electoral law, workers' faces.

Panorama and views of the pre-election rally in Debessy.

Faces of the rally participants.

Candidate for deputy of the Supreme Council of the Udmurt ASSR, secretary of the district committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) I.Z. Deryugin delivers an election speech from the rostrum.

Banners with slogans in the hands of rally participants.

Candidate for deputy - flax grower of the Elektro collective farm A.G. Bogatyreva delivers a speech.

Rally participants applaud.

Panorama and views of the rally.

Residents of Izhevsk go to the pre-election rally, carrying portraits of Stalin and Molotov.

Election poster on the wall of a house.

Panorama of the pre-election rally in Izhevsk.

View of the rally rostrum.

Rally participants with a portrait of Stalin in their hands.

Panorama of the stepped rostrum for rally participants.

A worker gives a speech at a rally in honor of Stalin and Molotov.

Panorama of the rally, rally participants vote for the adoption of a resolution.