At the 26th Congress of the CPSU. In the name of peace, democracy and progress (1981)

Building of the Rossiya Hotel – Wed, departure.

Flags flapping – Wed.

Building of the Belorussky Railway Station, traffic – Wed (from the driveway).

Building of the 2nd Watch Factory – Wed (from the movement).

Banners in honor of the 26th Congress of the CPSU on the building – Wed.

Kremlin – general, run over.

Continuation of the work of the 26th Congress of the CPSU: members of the presidium enter the KDS hall, the delegates applaud.

Chairman of the morning session, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the Party Central Committee K.U. Chernenko gives the floor to member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan D.A. Kunayev; D.A. Kunayev speaks (synchronously). L.I. Brezhnev in the presidium.

Speakers: member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU G.V. Romanov (synchronously), senior furnace operator of the blast furnace shop of the Magnitogorsk Lenin Iron and Steel Works V.D. Naumkin, candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR M.S. Solomentsev (synchronously), candidate members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia T. Ya.

Kiselev (synchronously) and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan Sh.R. Rashidov (synchronously).

The delegates to the congress greet with applause the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Castro Ruz; Fidel Castro Ruz speaks (synchronously in Spanish).

Bust of V.I. Lenin – cf.

The Congress is welcomed by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Le Duan (synchronously in Vietnamese).

The following will speak in the debate: First Secretary of the Rostov Regional Committee of the CPSU I.A. Bondarenko, First Secretary of the Bashkir Regional Committee of the CPSU M.Z. Shakirov, weaver of the Ivanovo Lenin Worsted Mill V.I. Golubeva (synchronously).

Speaking at the session of the congress: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PUWP Stanislav Kania (simultaneously in Polish), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED, Chairman of the State Council of the GDR Erich Honecker (simultaneously in German).

Newspapers on a conveyor belt in a printing house – kr.

People reading newspapers, passing by with newspapers in their hands; selling newspapers – various.

Hands shaking, taking newspapers, newspapers in hands – kr.

Congress delegates in the corridors – general, kr.

Listening in the hall – general.

The evening session is chaired by member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N.A. Tikhonov.

Speaking: candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan G.A. Aliyev (simultaneously), First Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU Yu.N. Khristoradnov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania P.P. Griškevičius, candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia E.A. Shevardnadze (synchronously), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Gustav Husák (synchronously in Czech), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party János Kádár (synchronously in Hungarian), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the BCP, Chairman of the State Council of the PRB Todor Zhivkov (synchronously in Bulgarian), member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party Gaston Plissonnier, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, President of the RSR N. Ceauşescu (synchronously in Romanian).

Those present applaud.

The KDS building – cf.