May Day and October Celebrations in the USSR (1923-1925)

Red Army soldiers march along the street on November 7, 1924. Participants in the May Day demonstration of 1923 walk to Red Square along one of the Moscow streets.

Activists in national Ukrainian costumes collect donations for street children and the fight against crime before the start of the May Day demonstration on Red Square.

An airplane flies over the city.

View of part of the Strastnoy Monastery, panorama of Strastnaya Square (above).

Models of the factory buildings of the Krasny Proletary plant on a Moscow street, during the march to Red Square.

Actors on an elevated platform act out a comic anti-religious scene in front of the demonstration participants.

Demonstrators on the platform of a truck, pretending to be blacksmiths.

A column of young athletes on Khodynka Field.

Participants in the May Day demonstration on Solovki exit the gates of a brick factory.

Red Army soldiers in formation on Khodynka Field on May 1, 1924. Trotsky L.D. During the May Day rally on Khodynka Field.

Trotsky's face.

Trotsky speaks to the Red Army soldiers, on the far right behind stands Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic S.S. Kamenev, on the left is Commander-in-Chief of the Moscow Military District K.E. Voroshilov.

Demonstration on November 7, 1925 in Leningrad.

Speakers speak from the rostrum during the May Day celebrations in Ivanovo-Voznesensk in 1924. View of the monument to V.I. Lenin.

Faces of the participants in the demonstration passing along Strastnaya Square in Moscow.

Panorama of the column of the May Day demonstration of 1924 on one of the streets of Leningrad.

A tram with participants in the demonstration passes by.

Participants in the May Day demonstration move to the graves on the Square of Victims of the Revolution.

View of the column of demonstrators (from above).

Panorama of part of the square.

A Red Army soldier in front of the rostrum of the May Day rally on Khodynka Field in 1923. Face of Rykov A.I. Rykov talks to one of the participants of the event.

Views of the demonstration on November 7, 1924 in Leningrad.

View of the tribune in front of the Winter Palace.

Models on truck platforms in columns of representatives of Leningrad enterprises.

Children read a holiday leaflet.

The movement of the demonstration columns along the streets of Leningrad, the demonstration participants in the back of trucks.

The movement of a column of demonstrators along one of the streets of Moscow.

The demonstration moves to Red Square past the Kremlin Wall.

Panorama of Red Square during the demonstration.

Columns of demonstrators move along Manezhnaya Square and the historic passage to Red Square.

Columns of pioneers and schoolchildren with red banners pass by.

The participants of the demonstration walk along tram tracks, a car parked on the side of the road starts moving.

The demonstration column moves along the street of one of the cities.

A truck with participants of the festive manifestation in honor of November 7 drives along the street.

A column of local OGPU officers with a banner passes by.

A truck passes by.

A panorama of a festive rally.

A truck with participants in the October celebrations passes along the road.

A column of demonstrators with a banner passes along the road, children carry banners with slogans.

Participants in the festive event climb out of the back of the truck.

A red flag over the village council.

A column of demonstrators walks along the road, a military brass band goes in front.

A view of a city street during a demonstration on November 7, 1924.