City of Novorossiysk is recaptured by Russians from Germany. Russian heavy artillery fired. Buildings in view. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Russian soldiers observe the area through binoculars. Russian soldiers aboard the ships. Naval and aerial bombardment on the city. Intense street fights. Wrecked and damaged buildings in view. Rubble on street. Russian soldiers cheer as Russians recapture Novorossiysk. (World War II period).
Funeral for Soviet Communist leader Mikhail Frunze. Streams of Russian mourners form lines in streets and pass by the body of Frunze, lying in State, on a catafalque in the Hall of Columns of the Labor Temple, Moscow. Family members are seen as well as honor guards of Soviet leaders, including: Lev Kamenev; Joseph Stalin; Mikhail Kalinin; and Mikhail Tomsky. Officials bearing the coffin of Lenin from the train station. Soldiers and citizens mass in Red Square, passing by the Mausoleum and Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Red Army troops training with camouglaged 76K/02 field guns. View of gunner using gun sight behind the shield of a 122 mm howitzer M1910/30, as another gun crew member inserts a round into it. The gun is fired. View of the breech area including the gun sight. Russian lancers on horseback, canter in formation past the camera. Soviet MS-1 (T-18) light tanks and some infantry move past the camera. A twin-turreted armored gun railroad car is in the background. Brief glimpse of a British-manufactured Russian Mark 4 Female tank, number 9085. Scene shifts to the 76K/02 field artillery battery firing again. Next, infantry are seen practicing along with the previously seen Mk 4 tank (No. 9085) and another similar tank.
Contingent of Soviet Army soldiers walking informally, before a crowd in Red Square. The Kremlin walls are seen in background. Two of the soldiers pull very small wheeled guns behind them. Closeup of a uniformed military band playing. A prize banner for a military unit is displayed. Leon Trotsky, head of the Red Army, speaks following the presentation of the banner (presentation not seen). The commander of the awardee unit speaks in turn. A politician speaks to a crowd of mostly civilians. Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet champion of women's causes, speaks from a wooden stand erected beneath the Kremlin wall.
Spartakiada, a Soviet Union festival of sports held on the opening of the VI Lenin Stadium (Luzhniki Stadium) in Moscow on 31 July, 1956. Participating athletes from all over the Soviet Union as well as other countries, are seen parading in the opening ceremonies. Almost all carry flags and banners. Some accompany decorated floats. Massed flags of participating Soviet republics and other nations are carried in a parade. Pigeons are released as in Olympic openings. Some participants appear to be from Sudan. Behind them in the background a stadium clock displays a sign in Cyrillic reading "МИР," (the World). Women participants dance. Some Asian women dance with fans. Band members massed on the field create a "wave" with a large net over their heads.
A portrait of Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Premier in Moscow, in Soviet Union. Lenin's dead body lies as people have their final glimpse of it. Stalin meets the people from different parts of the country and listens to their grievances as they clap in appreciation. He presents a picture to a young girl Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov don costumes of various ethnic groups.
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