L. I. Brezhnev - pages of life (1982)

Photograph of L.I. Brezhnev at his desk in his office.

Views of streets and neighborhoods of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

A tram passes, people walk.

View of a metallurgical plant in Dneprodzerzhinsk.

Panorama of the plant.

Photograph of Ilya Yakovlevich Brezhnev, L.I. Brezhnev’s father.

Photographs of a general view and shops of the Dneprovsky Metallurgical Plant in Kamenskoye.

Photograph of I.Ya.

Brezhnev among the workers and technicians of the plant.

Newsreel from the 1920s: the production process in the steelmaking and foundry shops of the metallurgical plant.

Photographs of L.I. Brezhnev’s parents – Ilya Yakovlevich and Natalya Denisovna.

Photograph of the plant workers.

Newsreel from 1919-1921: destroyed factory buildings.

Blown up railway bridge.

View of part of a burnt-out city block.

View of a stopped plant, the chimneys are not smoking.

Smoking chimneys of the plant.

Workers in a forge shop.

Panorama of an industrial enterprise restored in the mid-1920s.

View of part of a destroyed shop.

People at a railway station near carriages.

People boil water in pots over a fire.

People walking along a village street.

View of dilapidated village huts.

A peasant ploughs the land with a plow.

Peasants thresh grain with hand flails.

Photographs of the streets and houses of Kursk.

Photograph of the May Day demonstration in Kursk.

Photograph of Brezhnev with his wife Victoria Petrovna.

Photograph of a rally.

Photograph of people in the reading room of the library.

Photographs of city views.

View of the building.

Photographs of V.V. Mayakovsky talking to schoolchildren.

Newsreel from the 1920s: Mayakovsky reads his poems.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

Photographs of city streets.

Newsreel from 1929: people go to a collective farm meeting.

People at a village meeting.

An agitator reads an article to people about benefits for collective farms.

People listening to a speaker.

An agitator speaking at a collective farm meeting.

People voting for the creation of a collective farm.

People submitting applications for admission to the collective farm.

People walking behind a tractor during a May Day rally at a collective farm.

Panorama and views of a metallurgical plant.

Iron smelting in the plant’s shops.

The banner awarded to the Dzerzhinsky Plant for fulfilling the first five-year plan.

Classes at a refresher course.

A teacher drawing with chalk on the board.

A student taking notes after the teacher.

Photographs of Brezhnev among the listeners and students of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute.

Brezhnev’s signature under one of the plant’s orders.

Photographs of Brezhnev during his studies at the institute and work at the plant.

Photographs of Brezhnev during his service in the Red Army in 1935-1936. Photograph and article about Brezhnev in a Red Army newspaper.

Newsreel from 1937: views of the streets of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

Construction sites of the first five-year plans, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.

View of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station dam.

Ceremonial joining at the construction of the Turksib.

Opening of a new irrigation canal in Central Asia.

Coal on a conveyor belt.

Stakhanov A.G. works at the coalface.

Stakhanov's team leaves the mine after setting their record.

People applaud Stakhanov.

Stakhanov with a bouquet of flowers.

The face of a steelworker.

General view of an industrial enterprise (top).

German bomber in flight in June 1941. Bomb explosions on the ground.

Corpses of children.

An anti-aircraft gunner-observer on the roof of one of Moscow's houses surveys the sky through binoculars.

Soldiers of the Moscow People's Militia Division on the march.

Soviet troops fight the Nazi German troops.

An Il-2 attack aircraft attacks a ground target.

Soviet attack aircraft in flight.

A salvo of rocket launchers.

Infantry and tanks attack with air support.

Rocket artillery fires at the enemy.

Infantry attacks through the forest.

Burning houses.

A crying woman.

People over the bodies of their dead relatives and friends.

A child by the fire.

A Soviet officer helps children get out of the cellar.

Soldiers put the rescued children on a cart.

Distribution of bread to people in a liberated village.

Women with flowers greet the Red Army.

Brezhnev during a meeting with his fellow countrymen.

Seagulls Fly Over the Sea.

Newsreel from the 1970s: Brezhnev L.I. on board a ship during a trip to Malaya Zemlya.

Battles for Novorossiysk in 1943. Sailors of the Black Sea Fleet accept delivered ammunition.

An anti-aircraft gunner fires at German aircraft.

Panorama of a part of the seashore.

German bombers in flight.

An anti-aircraft machine gun crew fires.

A falling aircraft.

Artillerymen fire at the enemy.

A soldier bandages a wounded comrade.

A party card pierced by a bullet.

Photo of Brigade Commissar Brezhnev presenting a party card to a Red Army soldier.

Newsreel from 1942-1943: sailors hand over awards and documents before leaving for a combat mission.

Marines in position, footage of a naval battle.

The wounded commander continues to command.

An anti-aircraft gunner fires from a machine gun.

A German plane burns out on the ground.

Brezhnev speaks at a party meeting in the Kharkov region in 1942. Soldiers and commanders listen to Brezhnev's speech.

Brezhnev continues speaking.

Red Army soldiers listen to Brezhnev.

Red Army soldiers read a combat leaflet in a trench.

Sailors go on the attack.

Panorama of the battlefield.

Sailors plant the Soviet naval flag over the entrance to the Krasny Proletary plant in liberated Novorossiysk.

Sailors at the foot of a broken lighthouse.

Views of the Novorossiysk port in 1973. The eternal flame burns.

Brezhnev lays a wreath at the monument to the defenders of Malaya Zemlya.

The eternal flame burns.

Brezhnev among veteran defenders of Malaya Zemlya.

Brezhnev talks to veterans, looks at his photograph at the Victory Parade in Moscow.

Photograph of Brezhnev walking at the head of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front along a Moscow street.

Newsreel from 1945: a train with demobilized Red Army soldiers arrives at the station.

People throw flowers into the windows of the carriages.

Soldiers returning home hug their families.

A photograph of Brezhnev surrounded by his family and friends.

Newsreel from 1945-1946: a panorama of destroyed factory buildings.

View of the destroyed Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

A blown-up railway bridge.

People are crossing the Dnieper on a ferry.

Debris from the bridge in the water.

A woman opens a window in the surviving part of the destroyed house.

A photograph of Brezhnev during his work on restoring industry in Zaporozhye.

Newsreel from 1946: restoration of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

Panorama of the Zaporizhstal plant under restoration.

Restoration of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

People transport earth in wheelbarrows and carry it on stretchers.

Repair of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

A photograph of Brezhnev during his work as the first secretary of the Zaporozhye regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Newsreel from 1947, alternating with photographs: a panorama of a part of the restored plant.

A meeting in a workshop of the plant.

Brezhnev speaks from the rostrum.

The participants of the meeting applaud Brezhnev.

Brezhnev continues his speech.

A train with the first post-war products goes through the territory of the plant.

Faces of the workers.

Photograph of Brezhnev.

An article in the newspaper about the early restoration of Zaporizhstal.

Photographs of Brezhnev during his work as the first secretary of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the CPSU. Views of Dnepropetrovsk.

People sitting by the fountain.

Newsreel from 1947-1950: people harvesting.

Brezhnev presents awards to the best workers.

Brezhnev at the construction of a canal.

Views of Chisinau.

Harvesting in the collective farm fields.

Text of the message in the Pravda newspaper about the beginning of the development of virgin lands.

Newsreel from 1954-1955: people at the train station in Moscow.

Seeing off those leaving for the virgin lands.

Tractors in the snowy steppe.

People riding on tractor sleds.

Brezhnev visiting a town of virgin lands pioneers.

Brezhnev talking to people.

A tractor ploughs the land.

Brezhnev and his entourage walk along a ploughed field.

Brezhnev checks the depth of a furrow.

Brezhnev and D.A. Kunayev inspect agricultural machinery during an inspection of a grain threshing floor.

Faces of elevator workers.

Winnowing the grain of the new harvest on a mechanized grain threshing floor.

Combines harvesting.

Newsreel from 1961: placing the spacecraft in a vertical position at the launch pad.

View of the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Gagarin Yu. A. in a spacesuit before the flight.

Launch of the Vostok spacecraft.

Gagarin on board the spacecraft.

Salute in honor of the first cosmonaut.

Buglers sound.

Brezhnev presents Gagarin with an award in the Kremlin.

Salute in the sky over Moscow.

Brezhnev hugs and kisses Gagarin.

People on Red Square celebrate man's flight into space.

Photo of Brezhnev at his desk.

Newsreel from the late 1970s: Brezhnev during the launch of another spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The spacecraft in flight.

The opening of a hydroelectric power station, timed to coincide with the 26th Congress of the CPSU. The production process in the shops of a metallurgical enterprise.

Faces of the workers.

View of part of a new residential area.

View of an industrial enterprise (from above).

Work in the oil fields.

Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

Builders on the railway bridge.

Awarding of the best construction workers.

General view of the halls during a ceremonial event.

Brezhnev during one of his trips around the country.

A train is moving.

People are applauding.

A banner with a portrait of Lenin is on the locomotive.

The national flag of the USSR flutters over the Kremlin.

Brezhnev speaks from the rostrum of the 26th Congress of the CPSU in 1981. Congress delegates vote.

Members of the presidium of the congress vote.

General view of the meeting hall of the congress, everyone stands.

Brezhnev during meetings with foreign leaders in the Kremlin.

Brezhnev talks with Castro F. Brezhnev and W. Jaruzelski during a meeting in the Kremlin.

Brezhnev talks with foreign leaders.

Finnish President U. Kekkonen meets Brezhnev at a train carriage in Helsinki in 1975. The Finnish national flag flutters.

Brezhnev leads the Soviet delegation in Helsinki.

Brezhnev meets with de Gaulle, signing interstate agreements.

Signing of the Final Act on security in Helsinki by the heads of delegations.

Brezhnev puts his signature.

Brezhnev applauds.

Residents of Paris greet Brezhnev during his visit to France in 1973. Brezhnev responds to greetings from the car.

Workers greet Brezhnev.

Brezhnev during one of his trips abroad.

Brezhnev's arrival in Egypt.

Horse escort around Brezhnev's car.

People on the streets greet Brezhnev.

Brezhnev during a trip to Minsk.

Brezhnev dances with artists of the national ensemble.

View of a square in Havana on the day of Brezhnev's arrival in 1974 (from above).

People greet Brezhnev at the entrance to Havana.

Residents of Havana greet Brezhnev.

Panorama of the rally in the square.

Brezhnev greets the residents of Havana from the rostrum.

People are holding Soviet and Cuban flags.

Opening of Lenin Street in Paris.

Brezhnev among the residents of Paris.

View of the Eiffel Tower.

Brezhnev during a visit to the Louvre.

Paintings on the walls of the Louvre.

Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa".

Brezhnev examines the paintings and shares his impressions.

Opening of the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Brezhnev stands on the stadium rostrum.

View of part of the rostrum.

Colored balloons fly up into the sky.

Brezhnev talks to workers.

Brezhnev during his trips around the country and visits to industrial enterprises and farms.

General view of the meeting hall of the 26th Congress of the CPSU. Brezhnev speaks from the rostrum, delegates applaud standing.

Photograph of Brezhnev at his desk in his office in the Kremlin.