Leningrad chronicles № 14 (1961)

View of the embankment of the Moskva River.

The arch over the entrance to the VDNH.

Visitors in the pavilion of the Leningrad State Economic Council at VDNH.

The guide tells visitors about the new equipment.

The type and operation of the typesetting software device created at the Leningrad plant of printing machines.

A representative of the Vulkan plant demonstrates the work of a cotton-cutting machine to visitors.

Television and electronic equipment created at the enterprises of Leningrad.

Visitors inspect the exhibition.

Demonstration of a complex installation for the study of cardiovascular activity.

Universal injection molding machine in the exhibition.

Demonstration of the machine's operation.

Samples of parts made by injection molding.

The process of injection molding in one of the workshops at the Leningrad Car Building Plant.

Production processes in the workshops of the Leningrad Metal Plant.

View of a rural street in the state farm "Red October".

Link A. Popova fills carrot seeds in the hopper of the sowing unit.

Popova's face.

A tractor with a sowing unit during the sowing of carrots.

Field manager E. Isakova fills the seeds into the hopper of the sowing unit.

The tractor driver climbs into the tractor cab.

A tractor with a sowing unit in the field during the sowing of vegetables.

Interior view of one of the stations of the new section of the Leningrad metro.

Fragments of the station's decorations.

A meeting of metro builders at one of the new stations.

I. V. Spiridonov, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU, makes a speech.

Spiridonov cuts the red ribbon.

The participants of the rally applaud.

Spiridonov and his entourage enter the subway car.

Portrait of Lenin on the front of the head car.

Spiridonov and his entourage in the subway car.

Arrival of the train at the station.

General view of the rally on the occasion of the opening of the monument to the Finnish Red Guards in the Vyborg area.

Speech by one of the speakers.

First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU V. S. Tolstikov, Deputy Chairman of the Communist Party of Finland Yu.

Murto, brigadier Poroshin speak from the rostrum.

Removing the veil from the monument.

View of the open monument.

Laying wreaths and flowers at the foot of the monument.

View of the monument.

May 1 in Leningrad.

Monument to Lenin on the square in front of the Finlyandsky railway station.

Demonstrators leave the subway.

Demonstrators are formed into columns before the start of the movement.

View of the part of Nevsky Prospekt filled with people.

Flags of the coloring and the naval flag of the USSR on the topmasts of a warship.

Ships of the Baltic Fleet on the Neva River during the May Day parade.

The admiral's boat passes along the line of ships.

Admiral Baykov I. I. takes the parade from the bridge of the boat.

Tolstikov is standing next to Baykov.

The sailors shout "Hurrah".

The admiral's boat bypasses the formation of warships.

View of a part of the Palace Square before the start of the military parade and the May Day demonstration (from above), buglers give a signal.

The units of the Leningrad garrison are in parade formation.

Faces of military personnel.

The commander of the troops of the Leningrad district, General of the Army Kazakov M. I., goes around the troops.

The faces of the parade participants.

The leadership of the city and the region on the podium.

Kazakov is making a speech, Tolstikov is standing next to him.

Military personnel in parade formation.

View of the part of the palace square (from above).

Spectators in the guest stands.

Students of military academies, cadets of military schools, military personnel of the Leningrad garrison pass through the Palace Square.

The leaders of the city and region on the podium.

Military sailors pass through the Palace Square.

Views of the Palace Square during the passage of military equipment.

Motorized rifle and artillery units are passing through the square.

Portrait of Lenin on the facade of the Winter Palace.

Physical culture students open the May Day demonstration of the workers of Leningrad.

Types of guest and central stands.

Models of spaceships on the Palace Square.

Faces of foreign guests.

An armored car with a monument to Lenin passes by.

The leaders of production carry the banners of enterprises.

There are columns of representatives of the districts of Leningrad.

The demonstrators and the leaders of the city and region greet each other.

Views of the demonstration and the palace square (from above).

Representatives of Leningrad enterprises are passing by.

Types of the May Day demonstration, the faces of the demonstrators.

The delegation of the Communist Party of China at the podium.

The faces of the Chinese delegates.

Panorama and view of the Palace Square (from above) during the demonstration.

Streets and avenues of Leningrad, decorated with evening festive illumination.

Festive fireworks in the sky of Leningrad, a view of one of the rostral columns on the spit of Vasilievsky Island.

A glowing holiday slogan on the facade of one of the buildings.