In memory of Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (1985)

March 13, 1985, funeral ceremony of farewell to Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR K. U. Chernenko.

The announcer's voice is heard (off-screen).

The work of enterprises is suspended for 5 minutes.

A minute of silence, people's faces.

Funeral portrait of Chernenko on the facade of the House of Unions.

A long line, people enter the Hall of Columns.

The coffin with Chernenko's body.

Pillows with orders, wreaths with ribbons.

The country's leaders and party figures enter the hall.

Members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee mourn at the coffin.

General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M. S. Gorbachev.

Condolences to the family and widow of Chernenko.

Soldiers' guard.

People walk past the coffin.

Photographs of K. U. Chernenko.

Newsreel of the 1920s: Farewell ceremony with the orchestra of Red Army volunteers.

Military parade of the Red Army.

Chernenko in a border guard detachment in Kazakhstan (photo).

Photos of border guards, funeral of a border guard.

Khorgos border outpost in Kazakhstan, where Chernenko served.

Border detachment of the Red Banner Eastern Border District.

Border guard on a tower with binoculars.

Pilots in the helicopter cockpit.

Helicopters in the sky.

Tanks at a training ground.

Soldiers jump out of a moving tank (exercises).

A stand with photographs: Chernenko presents the Order of the Red Banner to border guards.

A line of border guards.

A funeral portrait of Chernenko on the building of a military unit.

Former border guard N.N.Golovatsky, who served in the same detachment with Chernenko, speaks (synchronously).

Golovatsky surrounded by young border guards.

Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Funeral ceremony of farewell to K.U. Chernenko.

Summer, Krasnoyarsk.

Administrative buildings, red flag.

People walking in the square, fountain.

Newsreel, 1941-1945: Women and children work together with men in the factory shops.

A female worker places shells.

A boy in the weapons shop.

Workers at their machines.

A worker stores shells.

Armament on the platform of a freight train. K. Chernenko's brochure "Mass propaganda work - to serve the Patriotic War" (1941).

Tanks in the shop of a metallurgical plant.

Shells on the conveyor.

Women at their machines, doing hard men's work.

Seamstresses at their machines in the shop.

A collective farm, trucks with sacks of grain.

Collective farmers in their cars.

Banners "Bread for the front", "We will give everything to defeat fascism!" Workers at the factory stand in a minute of silence.

Pedestal with a bust of Chernenko.

Funeral ceremony, people walking past the coffin.

Penza, the central square of the city, the administrative building.

Penza Plant named after M. V. Frunze.

A stand with a funeral portrait and stages of Chernenko's biography.

Plant employees as guards standing at attention near the stand.

Workers in the workshop with a portrait of Chernenko.

A female speaker at the podium (synchronously).

Funeral farewell ceremony in the Hall of Columns.

Administration building in Chisinau.

Newsreel 1946-1950: Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Chisinau (view from a helicopter).

A huge number of people at restoration work, digging the ground for the foundations of houses.

A quarry, mine carts and trucks with natural stone blocks.

Construction of a building from stone blocks.

A sign "Lenin Street" is being nailed in place.

Chisinau Instrument-making Plant "Volna".

Funeral meeting of workers.

Chernenko's portrait above the presidium.

A party activist from the plant delivers a speech at the podium (synchronously).

Funeral ceremony in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Photographs of Chernenko.

Delegations from foreign countries at Chernenko's coffin.

The Grand Kremlin Palace.

The USSR leadership headed by M.S. Gorbachev greets foreign delegations.

View of the Kremlin.

Funeral escort, honor guard marches.

Relatives and friends of K.U. Chernenko follow the coffin.

View of Red Square from above.

High-ranking military officials carry Chernenko's portrait and wreaths.

A funeral march plays, relatives mourn. M.S. Gorbachev opens the funeral meeting at the podium, delivers a speech (synchronously).

Politburo members on the podium.

People's faces.

Foreign delegations listen to Gorbachev's speech.

Lenin's Mausoleum.

March 13, 1985, Red Square.

First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU V.V. Grishin speaks at the podium (synchronously).

People's faces.

Soldiers carry a coffin, pillows with medals.

Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin.

Construction site of a residential neighborhood.

Builders take off their hats, mournful faces.

A minute of silence in a factory shop.

Workers in white overalls stand.

The conveyor belt at the automobile plant stops.

Trains stand.

Workers with portraits of Chernenko stand in the factory shop.

Seamstresses stand at the factory.

Cars and buses stand on the highway.

Drivers press their horns.

Military parade on Red Square.

Military units march.

Members of the Politburo salute.

Views of the Kremlin and Red Square from above.

Stars on the Kremlin towers.