60 years of the USSR. Under the Leninist banner of friendship of peoples (special issue No. 2) (1982)

View of the Kremlin across the Moskva River.

Flags of different countries of the world flutter on the flagpoles.

The building of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (KDS).

People in the foyer, among them: pilot-cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, dancer Makhmud Esambayev.

On the stage is the presidium of the ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. The hall applauds. K. U. Chernenko, Yu. V. Andropov, N. A. Tikhonov are sitting at the Presidium table. V. V. Grishin, M. S. Solomentsev, Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov, V. V. Shcherbitsky, Hungarian leader J. Kadar, G. V. Romanov, Vietnamese leader Le Duan, T. Ya.

Applause in the hall and on the stage.

Speech from the rostrum by the old Bolshevik Kretov (synchronously) about the formation of the USSR. Listeners in the hall, applause. Y. Andropov and K. Chernenko applaud.

Speaking on the podium are: Sh. R. Rashidov, GDR leader E. Honecker, D. A. Kunayev, representative of Korea Lee Den Ok, E. A. Shevardnadze, Cuban politician Raul Castro Ruz, P. P. Griskevicius.

Representatives of Soviet youth, Komsomol members, and Pioneers walk along the aisles of the hall with flags.

Komsomol members and Pioneers at the central podium read poems in honor of the Motherland and the Party, thanking for the happiness of living in the USSR. Applause.

Pioneers present flowers to those sitting in the Presidium.

A panorama of the hall from the top.

Moscow, aerial views.

Foreign participants in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the USSR visit the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant.

Friendship rally, plant workers applaud.

Rally at the Lenin Electromechanical Plant, meeting with delegations from Finland, Morocco, and the GDR. Speakers at the microphone.

General view of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (KPC) building.

The Presidium of the ceremonial meeting in honor of the 60th anniversary of the USSR enters the stage.

Speaking from the rostrum: M. Bagirov, leader of the Communist Party of Laos, S.K. Representatives of the USSR Armed Forces enter the hall.

Major General Kopylov addresses (synchronously) the participants of the meeting on behalf of the country's soldiers.

The soldiers in the hall repeat the oath after the speaker.

Applause.

Speeches from the rostrum by representatives of Yemen, Kampuchea, and Algeria.

The writer Chingiz Aitmatov is sitting in the hall.

Weaver Valentina Golubeva reads (synchronously) an appeal to the peoples of the world.

Listeners in the hall, applause.

Voting for the adoption of a resolution calling for peace and cooperation.

Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy is in the hall.

Applause in the hall.

A panorama of the presidium, G.A. Aliyev, G.V. Romanov, D.F. Ustinov, A.Ya.

General view of the hall.

Zooming in on the sculptural bust of Lenin on the stage.