Parades and demonstrations in Moscow (1927-1937)

An artillery battery fires a salute on the territory of the Kremlin.

Columns of students of military academies open the military parade on Red Square on May 1, 1927, with K. Ye.

Voroshilov riding in front. K. Ye.

Voroshilov, R. A. Muklevich, I. S. Unshlikht, L. M. Karakhan, and P. Ye.

Dybenko greet the passing troops.

Students of military academies and faces of spectators march across Red Square.

A unit of drummers opens the parade.

Foreign military attachés on Red Square near the mausoleum.

Units of the Moscow garrison march across Red Square.

Views of Red Square during the parade (above), troops march in front of the mausoleum.

A brass band plays.

Units of the Red Navy march in front of the mausoleum.

An Osoaviakhim division marches across Red Square.

A column of first aid workers marches.

Spectators on Red Square.

Motorcyclists ride across Red Square.

Foreign military attaches watch the troops pass by.

Tanks move onto Red Square (top).

A cavalry unit gallops past the mausoleum.

Voroshilov greets the cavalrymen while standing in front of the mausoleum.

Machine gun carts pass through Red Square.

A view of part of Red Square during the cavalry pass by (top).

Horse artillery passes in front of the mausoleum.

Light tanks and infantry on the streets of Moscow before the May Day parade.

Demonstrators on a Moscow street climb onto the armor of a tank to take photographs.

A column of Austin-Putilovets armored cars passes along a Moscow street.

Columns of troops line up before the parade on Red Square.

A view of one of the guest stands as a Japanese military attaché passes by.

Units of the Moscow garrison advance along the streets of Moscow to Red Square.

Foreign military attachés greet each other before the start of the parade.

Military units take their places in the parade formation on Red Square.

Guests take their places on the guest stand.

Troops in parade formation on Red Square.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 10:00. Voroshilov rides out of the Spassky Gate on horseback, followed by the military.

Voroshilov receives the report of the parade commander.

Voroshilov, standing by the mausoleum, greets the passing cavalry.

Guests on the stand.

Troops in parade formation on Red Square, Voroshilov greeting the troops.

Spectators at the Kremlin Wall.

Troops on Red Square.

Faces of Red Navy sailors.

Buglers give the signal.

Red Army soldiers in formation pronounce the oath, faces of Red Army soldiers.

Troops on Red Square.

Participants in the May Day demonstration carry life-size flags of the imperialists.

Demonstrators dressed as priests and devils on the platform of a moving truck.

View of part of the demonstration on Red Square.

Demonstrators play accordions and percussion instruments.

A model of a carousel is spinning.

View of part of the demonstration.

The military greet the demonstration from the mausoleum tribune, including Unshlikht I.S., Muklevich R.A. Light tanks pass in front of the mausoleum.

A column of armored cars and motorcycles drives along Red Square.

View of the mausoleum during the demonstration.

Representatives of the Comintern greet the demonstration participants.

Troops march along Red Square during the parade on November 7, 1930. Kalinin M.I., Yenukidze A.S., Rudzutak Ya.E. greet the demonstration from the mausoleum tribune.

Columns of Red Navy sailors pass in front of the mausoleum.

Voroshilov greets the passing troops.

Spectators on the guest tribune.

Motorcyclists and T-18 light tanks pass in front of the mausoleum.

Tanks pass in front of the mausoleum, foreign military attaches watch the passing tanks.

Airplanes fly over Red Square.

Light tanks pass in front of the mausoleum.

Automobiles and heavy tanks move along Red Square.

Tanks pass along Red Square (above).

Voroshilov greets the troops from the mausoleum tribune.

Tanik passes in front of the mausoleum.

A column of light armored cars passes, a view of part of the guest tribune, people greet the troops.

Trucks with infantry in the backs pass in front of the mausoleum.

Kalinin, Yenukidze, and Rudzutak greet the troops from the mausoleum tribune.

The cavalry passes in front of the mausoleum.

Participants in the 1935 Physical Culture Parade carry banners.

Faces of spectators.

Female athletes walk along Red Square.

Face of Kalinin M.I. View of part of Red Square during the Physical Culture Parade.

Face of Stalin I.V. A column of athletes walks by.

Parade participants ride along Red Square inside a rotating wheel.

View of part of Red Square with parade participants lined up in the shape of a five-pointed star (top).

Girls jump ropes on Red Square.

Faces of parade participants.

View of Red Square during the athletes' performance (top).

Views of Red Square during the Physical Culture Parade (top), parade participants carry a model of a boat.

Khrushchev N.S., Andreev A.A., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Voroshilov K.E., Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M., Kalinin M.I. The participants of the physical culture parade are greeted from the stands of the mausoleum.

A panorama of a part of Red Square during the physical culture parade.

The faces of Stalin and Voroshilov, columns of female athletes march along Red Square.

The parade participants carry welcoming slogans in honor of Stalin, Voroshilov and Stalin greet the parade participants.

Columns of parade participants move along Gorky Street.

The columns exit onto Red Square (above).

Columns of representatives of sports societies march.

Views of Red Square during the physical culture parade, gymnasts are carried in their arms.

A model with the emblem of the Spartak sports society moves.

Spectators in the guest stands.

Views of Red Square during the physical culture parade.

Representatives of Moscow districts come out onto Red Square during the demonstration on November 7, 1935. Spectators in the guest stands welcome the demonstration.

The demonstration participants carry banners with slogans.

Athletes parade at the Dynamo stadium in the mid-1920s.

Demonstrations in honor of the anniversaries of the October Revolution in the second half of the 1920s.

Columns of demonstrators take to the streets of Moscow on November 7, 1930.

Light tanks and horse artillery at the parade on November 7, 1934. Infantry at the parade on November 7, 1922. View of part of the demonstration in honor of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution.

View of the demonstration columns entering Red Square (top).

Views of Red Square during parades and demonstrations of 1932-1934. Airplanes fly over Red Square.

Kalinin M.I., Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M., Kaganovich L.M. walk through the Kremlin to Red Square, Stalin walks past one of the buildings on the Kremlin territory.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Participants in the demonstration on November 7, 1935 on Red Square greet the leaders of the party and the state, carry slogans in honor of Stalin.

View of part of Red Square during the demonstration (synchronously).

Faces of the demonstration participants walking in columns.

The participants of the demonstration carry portraits of the leaders of the party and state and banners with slogans.

Stalin and Kaganovich on the rostrum of the mausoleum, the faces of Ordzhonikidze and Stalin.

Stalin, Dimitrov G.M., Kaganovich on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Ordzhonikidze, Stalin, Kalinin greet the demonstration from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, Voroshilov, Bukharin N.I. on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

A column of participants in the civil war with banners passes along Red Square.

Columns of demonstrators greeting the leaders of the party and state pass.

Representatives of the Moscow region pass.

Guests from the union republics of the USSR greet the participants of the demonstration on November 7, 1937. Dimitrov, Voroshilov and Molotov greet the participants of the demonstration from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

The face of a representative of one of the republics of Central Asia.

The participants of the demonstration carry a slogan in honor of E. Telman.

A heavy tank drives across Red Square during a military parade.

View of the mausoleum and part of Red Square, a tank drives past the mausoleum at high speed.

Foreign diplomats on Red Square.

BT tanks drive past Red Square at high speed.

Faces of foreign diplomats.

Guests greet the tankers.

Faces of foreign military attaches and diplomats, spectators watch planes flying over Red Square.

Budyonny S.M. and Unshlikht I.S. greet the troops during the parade on Red Square on May 1, 1930. Foreign military attaches on Red Square, light tanks drive past the mausoleum.

Kalinin and Molotov greet the passing troops.

Planes fly over Red Square, Stalin, Molotov and Kalinin watch the planes from the mausoleum tribune.

Guests and military attaches watch the planes.

View of the guest tribune.

The face of Budyonny S.M. Machine gun carts pass in front of the mausoleum.

View of part of Red Square during the cavalry's passage.

Cavalry on parade in the second half of the 1920s.

Cossack units gallop past in front of the mausoleum.

A military brass band marches along Red Square.

Demonstration on Red Square.

Stalin I.V. walks to the mausoleum tribune.

View of the guest tribune on Red Square.

Drummers open the military parade on Red Square on November 7, 1935. Voroshilov K.E. on the mausoleum tribune.

Columns of students of military academies pass by.

Stalin on the mausoleum tribune.

A column of students of the Air Force Academy passes in front of the mausoleum.

Mikoyan A.I. and Andreyev A.A. on the mausoleum tribune.

A column of female military personnel passes along Red Square.

Kalinin M.I., Yenukidze A.S., Yaroslavsky E.M. on the mausoleum tribune during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, November 7, 1927. View of the mausoleum and part of Red Square during the parade (top).

Faces of foreign guests.

Cavalry gallops through Red Square.

Voroshilov on horseback.

Machine-gun carts pass in front of the mausoleum.

Columns of demonstrators pass through Red Square.

Units of Red Navy sailors pass through.

Cavalry on Red Square.

Faces of the military on the guest stand.

View of Red Square during the demonstration on November 7, 1937 (above).

A heavy tank passes through Red Square.

Tanks on parade on Red Square.

Kalinin M.I. exits the Spassky Gate.

Voroshilov walks towards Kalinin.

Voroshilov reports to Kalinin, cameramen are filming.

Naval commanders with a banner during the report.

Faces of Red Navy sailors, cavalrymen and infantrymen standing in formation.

Troops pass through Red Square.

View of part of the guest stand.

Tachankas pass in front of the mausoleum, faces of guests.

Hands of brass band musicians.

Horse artillery passes through the square.

Voroshilov on horseback rides around the troops lined up for the parade, Red Army and Red Navy men in parade formation.

Cossacks in parade formation.

The face of a Cossack.

View of the guest stands.

Linz of foreign workers' delegates.

A brass band is playing.

Columns of students of military academies enter Red Square, view of the guest stand.

A brass band is playing.

Rifle units march along Red Square.

Budyonny S.M., Unshlikht I.S., Muklevich R.A. greet the troops from the mausoleum tribune.

A model of a steam locomotive in a column of demonstrators on Red Square.

Columns of demonstrators await the start of the movement to Red Square (above).

Demonstrators walk along the streets of Moscow.

A column of first aid workers marches through Red Square.

Workers march with banners during a demonstration in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Red Army.

Representatives of the Central Asian Union republics march, carrying banners with slogans.

Osoaviakhim units march.

A view of the demonstration on Red Square.

A column of women marches.