At the 27th Congress of the CPSU. Special issue No. 8 (1986)

A quote and portrait of V.I. Lenin.

National flags of the union republics.

The flag of the USSR. Streets of Moscow.

View of the Bolshoi Theatre.

View of the Spasskaya Tower.

Posters on the building of the State Historical Museum.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

March 5, 1986. Members of the Politburo ascend the podium.

Applause from delegates and guests of the 27th Congress.

People take their seats.

Continuation of the discussion of N.I. Ryzhkov’s report “On the Main Directions of Economic and Social Development of the USSR in 1986-1990 and for the Period up to the Year 2000”.

Morning session, chairman G.A. Aliyev. M.R. Sagdiev now takes the floor. G. MacLennan speaks.

Views of the hall. I.V. Frantsenyuk on the podium.

Speech by V.I. Sitnikov.

Panorama of the meeting hall.

Residents of Moscow.

Press center of the XXVII Congress, participants of press conferences.

Journalists prepare articles.

The Hungarian delegation and media representatives visit the Ordzhonikidze Machine-Tool Plant in Moscow.

Factory automation. J. Kadar at a meeting with workers in the management office.

The Vietnamese delegation visits the Mikromashina plant.

The head of the delegation presents flowers to one of the plant workers.

The Czechoslovakian delegation at the All-Union Art Exhibition "We Are Building Communism".

Artists draw the congress delegates.

A view of the foyer from above.

Participants of the 27th Congress communicate during breaks between sessions.

An excerpt from an interview with Popov, a lumberjack from the Tyumen Region.

Doctor Litvinovich from Minsk answers a journalist's question. H. A. Krumm is at the microphone.

Meeting of grain growers V. Makarov and A. D. Chervyakov. A. D. Chervyakov speaks.

A view of the foyer from above.

The meeting hall. L. N. Zaykov speaks.

The audience applauds standing up.

At the microphone is G.A. Aliyev.

Delegates of the congress.