Bogatyrs of the Motherland (1937)

A Red Army soldier and a junior commander place flags along the road before the 5th Aviation Festival in Tushino.

A Red Army soldier nails multi-colored flags and a flag with the emblem of the Soviet Air Force to a flagpole.

Portraits of the leaders of the party and state above the stands.

A covered airplane propeller.

A heavy bomber with covered propellers at the airfield.

Covers on the bomber's chassis.

A sentry at his post near the planes.

Planes at the airfield.

A street cleaner on the streets of Moscow.

A tram driver places signs with the route behind the front and side windows of a tram.

The gates of the tram depot boxes open, the trams drive out onto the line.

Cars drive out of the garage.

A member of the river tram crew places a sign with the inscription "Tushino" on board.

River trams named after Soviet pilots before leaving for Tushino.

Sailors install the gangways.

A sign on board a ship that says "To Tushino." A car stops on the river bank and military pilots get out.

The pilots take off their uniforms and go swimming.

The pilots get out of the water.

The pilots get dressed near the car.

The pilots get into the car and drive away.

Views of the Moscow Kremlin and Moscow buildings.

A model of an airplane in the room of V.P. Chkalov's son Igor.

Igor is sleeping in bed.

Chkalov is talking to young pilots at the airfield, the pilots' faces.

I-16 fighters standing in a row.

Bombers and flying boats at the airfield.

One of the founders of Russian aviation, B.I. Rossinsky, among pilots at the airfield.

Newsreel from 1915: a poster for the Moscow-Tver-Moscow nonstop flight on July 2, 1915 with a portrait of Rossinsky.

Rossinsky's face.

A poster for one of Rossinsky's flights.

Rossinsky gets into a sports car in 1915. View of one of the stands of the hippodrome.

Rossinsky gets into an airplane.

Spectators are sitting in the car.

Rossinsky waves from the cockpit.

Rossinsky among Soviet pilots at the airfield in Tushino, the pilots applaud the veteran.

Pupils of a kindergarten jump from a children's parachute tower, parents watch the jumps.

A lesson in an aircraft modeling club, pioneers assemble flying model airplanes.

Young participants in aircraft modeling competitions launch their models.

Launch of a glider with a bicycle drive.

Launch of a glider using a catapult.

Glider in flight.

Glider flights in Koktebel.

The face of a glider pilot during a flight.

Gliders in the sky.

Giving a signal to a glider.

A queue to a parachute tower in one of the cities of the North of the USSR. Residents of the Nenets tundra Efim Kanerin in a parka climbs onto a parachute tower, girls' faces.

People watch Kanerin.

Kanerin puts on the parachute straps.

Kanerin's parachute jump from the tower.

Kanerin lands.

The parachutist is released from the straps.

Jump from a church bell tower converted into a parachute tower.

People watch the jump from the ground.

The parachutist in the jump.

A lesson in the theory of flights at the flying club, the instructor demonstrates aerobatics on an airplane model.

Faces of the flying club cadets.

A cadet on a flight simulator.

A lesson on packing a parachute.

The flying club cadets line up near the planes at the airfield.

The cadets take their seats in the planes, the cadets' faces.

A young female pilot of one of the flying clubs during morning exercises.

The girls line up in front of the planes.

The girls' faces in flight helmets.

The instructor's face.

The pilots take their seats in the airplane cabins.

The takeoff signal is given with a flag.

The airplanes take off and take off.

The airplanes are in flight, the commander is watching the flight.

Performing parachute jumps from the airplane.

Flying airplanes.

The airplane performs aerobatics.

The instructors congratulate the girls on the successful completion of their first flight, presenting them with flowers.

Horseback hunters travel through the taiga in Eastern Siberia.

A seaplane near a river bank.

Hunters unload fur-bearing animal pelts from bags.

The face of an elderly hunter smoothing his moustache and beard.

Fur on one of the pelts, faces of the hunters, a pilot examining the pelts.

Loading bales of pelts into the cargo hold of a seaplane.

The plane takes off from the shore.

Planes in flight, clouds and mountains under the wing of the plane.

Planes fly over the mountains on the Stalinabad-Khorog route.

The face of a local resident.

Planes at the Khorog airfield.

A camel caravan passes by the planes.

Unloading one of the planes.

Mountain views under the wing of the plane, view of the nose of the plane with a rotating propeller.

View of the ski landing gear.

A plane flying in the sky.

A view of a snowy desert beyond the Arctic Circle (from above).

The pilot throws out a package with mail for the winterers.

The winterers on a dog sled take the package.

The hands of one of the polar explorers leafing through the books sent.

A civil aviation plane in flight.

Passengers - residents of the Far North in the cabin of the plane, the faces of the passengers.

The plane lands at the polar airfield.

The propeller rotates.

Passengers get off the plane, luggage is unloaded.

Passengers thank the pilot, the faces of the passengers.

Panorama of the Kazakh steppe, view of the Karsakpai copper smelter.

Cargo plane at the airfield next to the plant.

Loading bags of finished copper ingots and concentrates into the plane.

Loading bales of cotton into the plane at one of the airfields of the Tajik SSR, mechanics check the operation of one of the plane's engines.

Apples on the branches.

Harvesting apples at one of the farms in the Tambov region.

Packing apples for shipment to Rudolf Island in a wooden box.

Boxes of apples before shipment.

Loading boxes of apples onto an airplane.

An airplane taking off.

Loading young breeding pigs onto an airplane for shipment to one of the livestock state farms in Bashkiria.

An airplane taking off.

Planes flying over the taiga and mountains.

Landscape on Lake Sevan in the Armenian SSR. A fishing boat sails.

Trout in a net.

Unloading the catch with a net.

Packing trout into wooden boxes.

Applying an inscription to the boxes using a stencil.

Loading boxes of fresh trout onto an airplane.

An airplane taking off and run.

Sowing rice in the Far East and Kuban using an airplane.

A fishing flotilla under the wing of an airplane.

Pilots in the cockpit of an aerial reconnaissance aircraft working in the Caspian fisheries.

Seascape.

A seaplane on the water.

Locusts in a field of one of the collective farms of the Kazakh SSR. Preparation of pesticides for locust control.

Loading pesticides into an airplane bunker.

Takeoff of an agricultural aviation aircraft.

Locusts in a field.

View of the tail of an airplane during the release of pesticides.

Panorama of one of the malarial swamps in Georgia, in Colchis.

Spraying pesticides from airplanes over malarial mosquito outbreaks.

An air ambulance plane flies over the mountains.

Views of a mountain village in Svaneti (top), faces of local residents.

Transportation of a patient on a sled in an ox-drawn cart through the streets of the village to the plane.

Loading the patient into the plane.

Local residents thank the pilot and see the plane off, view of the village (top).

An air ambulance plane in flight.

Mountain landscape under the wing of the plane (top).

The steamship Chelyuskin goes to the bottom, crushed by ice in February 1934. Newspaper report on the loss of the steamship and the landing of the crew on the ice.

View of part of the Chelyuskin camp.

Head of the expedition Schmidt O. Yu. gets out of the tent, washes himself with snow.

Melting snow on a fire to get drinking water, distributing water.

Life in the Chelyuskin camp.

View of the camp.

The plane flies to the Chelyuskin camp.

Faces of the Chelyuskin crew greeting the first plane.

The plane lands on an ice floe, people greet it.

The Chelyuskin crew rock the pilot.

Women and children board the plane.

The Chelyuskin crew see off the plane with another batch of rescued people.

Faces of the pilots - the first Heroes of the Soviet Union Molokov V.S., Vodopyanov M.V., Levanevsky S.A., Slepnev M.T., Kamanin N.P., Doronin I.V. and Lyapidevsky A.V. Pilots near the plane at the airfield.

The red flag on the ice floe at the site of the former Chelyuskin camp.

Landscapes of Ethiopia.

A peasant ploughs the land with a plow made from a tree branch.

Views of an Ethiopian village, people looking up.

An Italian bomber is flying.

Bomb explosions on the ground during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936. Consequences of the bombing, people carry out the bodies of the dead, burning huts.

Faces of people who have lost their homes and relatives.

Consequences of the bombing by the Italian air force, fires and corpses of the dead.

Providing medical care to the wounded.

Panorama of part of Madrid (top).

Views of streets and architectural monuments of Madrid.

Sculpture of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

Historical monuments of Madrid.

Fascist planes in the sky over Madrid, people run for shelter.

Residents of Madrid leave bombed-out neighborhoods.

People go down to a bomb shelter.

Fascist planes over Madrid.

Historical and architectural monuments of Madrid damaged by bombs.

View of the destroyed cathedral.

A woman cries, standing by the door.

People left homeless, on the street of the city.

View of a bomb crater in one of the squares of Madrid.

Soviet planes flying.

Pilot Vodopyanov at the controls.

Schmidt O. Yu. next to the navigator, the planes of the Schmidt and Vodopyanov expedition fly to the North Pole.

The pilot at the controls.

The propeller of the plane is turning.

Arctic landscape.

The navigator plots a course.

Schmidt and Vodopyanov in the cockpit of the plane.

Arctic landscape.

The navigator marks the landing point on the map.

Schmidt and the expedition members land at the North Pole.

Landing of another expedition plane.

The pilots and expedition members congratulate each other.

Raising the USSR national flag over the North Pole.

The expedition members fire rifles and revolvers and sing "The Internationale".

The expedition planes landed at the North Pole, Arctic landscape (panorama).

The flag with Stalin's profile and the USSR national flag flutter on the flagpoles.

Schmidt and the expedition members sing "The Internationale" after raising the flag, the faces of the expedition members.

The expedition tent.

The flags flutter in the wind.

Meeting of V.P. Chkalov's crew in Vancouver.

Baidukov G.F., Belyakov A.V. and Chkalov V.P. near the plane after landing.

On July 20, 1937, Vancouver residents greet the Soviet pilots.

Artillery salute in honor of the Soviet crew.

Soviet pilots and their entourage with flowers in their hands walk along the streets of Washington.

Chkalov V.P. makes a speech before leaving for the Motherland (synchronously).

ANT-25 plane in flight.

View of part of the American airfield (from above).

Gromov's plane after landing in the USA. Americans greet the Soviet pilots driving along the city streets in cars.

Gromov M.M. on the tribune, panorama of the rally in honor of the Soviet pilots.

Stalin I.V. and Voroshilov K.E. on the tribune watch the landing of the plane of the participants in the conquest of the North Pole.

Landing plane.

Schmidt O. Yu. gets off the plane.

Another plane lands.

Voroshilov and Stalin applaud, standing on the platform.

Schmidt O. Yu. near the plane.

Schmidt walks along the platform, people on the platform greet him.

Expedition members climb onto the platform.

The leaders of the party and the state greet the expedition members, Voroshilov embraces Schmidt.

Voroshilov, Stalin, Kaganovich L. M. shake hands with the expedition members, embrace them.

Faces of people greeting Schmidt and his comrades.

Schmidt with bouquets of flowers in his hands gets into the car, responds to greetings.

Voroshilov, Stalin, Chubar V. Ya. on the platform.

Cars with expedition members leave the airfield.

People greet the expedition members driving in cars.

Chkalov with his wife and son drive in a car along the streets of Moscow after returning from the USA. Cars with participants of the expedition and the flight over the North Pole drive along the streets of Moscow, leaflets are continuously falling.

View of part of Gorky Street (from above) during the heroes' drive.

Cars enter the Kremlin gates.

Views of Moscow buildings and streets before the start of the Aviation Day celebration.

A traffic controller at the intersection near Okhotny Ryad.

Trams pass by.

A column of cars moves to Tushino.

People pass by.

A tram with passengers hanging on the steps passes by.

Passengers board a river tram heading to Tushino.

Moscow workers travel in the back of trucks to the aviation festival in Tushino.

The river tram departs from the pier.

Budyonny S.M. and members of his family get out of the car after arriving in Tushino.

People approach the Tushino airfield.

Khrushchev N.S. and Bulganin N.A. arrive for the celebration.

People at the tram stop.

Arrival of A.I. Yegorov to the celebration.

People are walking to the celebration, cars are driving by.

Arrival of A.V. Kosarev and V.Ya.

Chubar to the celebration together with their family members.

Ships are sailing along the Moscow Canal.

Passengers are at the side.

The river tram is heading to the pier.

Passengers are getting off at the pier.

Arrival of N.I. Yezhov to the celebration, Yezhov shakes hands with Budyonny, Kosarev, Khrushchev and Bulganin.

Yezhov, Khrushchev, Kosarev and Bulganin are walking up the stairs to the tribune.

People are walking under the railway overpass.

Stalin, V.M. Molotov and Voroshilov are getting out of the car, greeting Budyonny, walking up the stairs to the tribune.

View of part of the Tushino airfield before the start of the aviation festival.

Spectators who have gathered for the celebration are standing at the edge of the airfield (panorama).

View of the pavilion leading to the airfield.

Voroshilov, Stalin, Chubar on the tribune before the start of the celebration.

The air group of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy opens the festival by forming a five-pointed star of airplanes in the sky, Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M., Chubar V.Ya. on the stand.

Spectators watch the flight.

Airplanes formed in the sky in the form of the words "USSR", "Lenin", "Stalin", Yezhov, Voroshilov, Molotov, Khrushchev and Stalin watch the flight from the stand.

Yezhov and Kosarev on the stand.

The face of one of the spectators.

Links of airplanes piloted by cadets of flying clubs fly by, faces of spectators.

Glider pilots - Lieutenant Sukhomlin, Baruzdin, Rastorguev take their places in the gliders, fasten their seat belts.

The glider pilots lower the canopies.

The gliders take off in tow of R-5 airplanes.

Sukhomlin in the glider cockpit.

Flying gliders.

Faces of spectators watching the flight.

Gliders in the air perform synchronous actions.

Khrushchev, Molotov and Stalin watch the flight of gliders.

Gliders in the sky perform aerobatics, spectators watch the flight.

Gliders land.

Faces of spectators.

Demonstration of agricultural aviation actions to spray pesticides.

A link of sports planes takes off, spectators watch the flight.

A boy looks through binoculars.

Takeoff of one of the two-seater sports planes, faces of spectators.

Demonstration of aerobatics.

Pilot V.K. Kokkinaki gets into the plane.

Takeoff of Kokkinaki's plane.

Yezhov, Voroshilov, Molotov, Khrushchev watch Kokkinaki's high-altitude flight from the stands.

Kokkinaki's plane performs aerobatics and combat turns at maximum altitude.

Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Khrushchev, Chubar, Budyonny on the stands.

Air Force pilots demonstrate aerobatics, spectators' faces.

Military pilot Rychagov P.V. takes his seat in an I-15 fighter.

A flight of high-speed fighters under Rychagov's command flies over the airfield, spectators watch the flight.

Rychagov's wingmen fly upside down.

Fighter pilots Suprun S.P., Toporovsky, Rakov, Nikolaev and Romanov in the cockpits before takeoff.

Khrushchev and Voroshilov on the podium.

A Red Army soldier at the airfield gives the signal allowing a flight of fighters to take off.

A flight of fighters under the command of Suprun takes off.

The pilots are swimming in the river.

A flight of fighters performs aerobatics in sync, Voroshilov and Stalin watch the flight from the stands.

The fighters perform combat turns.

Paratroopers climb into a TB-3 bomber.

Spectators sit on the grass of the airfield.

Airplanes with troops on board fly by.

Paratroopers on board one of the aircraft.

The face of the commander of one of the landing groups.

The paratroopers are being dropped, spectators are watching the paratroopers.

View of the tail section of one of the aircraft, the canopies of the parachutes in the sky.

The paratroopers are landing, spectators are watching the landing, the paratroopers are extinguishing the canopies.

An air defense observer is looking through binoculars.

Airplanes are taking off at the beginning of a demonstration air battle.

An anti-aircraft machine gun crew is in full combat readiness.

Squadrons of planes fly towards each other, spectators watch the "air battle".

The squadrons approach each other, anti-aircraft gunners fire at air targets with blank ammunition.

The simulated shot-down plane goes into a "tailspin".

Anti-aircraft gunners fire, the pilot of the "shot-down" plane descends by parachute.

An explosion in the air, fragments of a demonstration air battle.

A view of part of the parking lot near the airfield, spectators watch the battle from the roofs of cars.

Bombers approach the "target", an anti-aircraft battery fires.

Dropping bombs on the simulated target.

Destruction of models of a bridge and buildings.

Voroshilov watches the battle, Khrushchev stands behind him.

Burning models of buildings.

Planes with paratroopers on board fly.

Paratroopers climb out onto the wing before jumping.

Airborne troops are dropped from an airplane, paratroopers slide off the wing.

Parachutists in the sky.

View of the tail section of the plane, parachutists in the sky.

Squadrons of Soviet planes are flying.

Vodopyanov M.V. at the controls of the plane.

Faces of the pilots.

Planes are flying, Stalin on the tribune of the mausoleum.