Soviet troops parade in Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin arrives to review the parade. Soviet sailors march along a street. A band plays. The parade is reviewed by Stalin and other Soviet officials. The crowd cheers as Stalin and other Soviet officials wave. U.S. Army, Navy and Army Air Force officers are seen among the spectators. The U.S. Army Air Force Officer watches the aircraft flying overhead, with binoculars and he pauses to chat with the U.S. Army officer about his observations. Large masses of Soviet civilians join the parade, after the military units have passed. Soviet foreign minister Viacheslav Molotov waves from the balcony. Russian school girls, in aprons, pass by. Stalin doffs his hat.
Street views in Moscow, Soviet Union. Pedestrians walk along a muddy road. Soviet workers work on a road using shovels. The Spasskaya Tower in Red Square. A group of Soviet soldiers march in the square. Saint Basil's Church in Red Square. Soviet civilians get into streetcars.
May Day celebration in Moscow, Soviet Union. Civilians parade with flags. People shout and sing in the rally. Russian women parade in traditional dresses. Crowd during the rally carry banners with Russian signs on it. Woman parades in traditional Russian dress. Officer at the rally. A band plays while men and women dance.
May Day Parade in Moscow, Soviet Union after the end of World War II. A huge crowd of civilian marchers lines up in Red Square, near Lenin's mausoleum, prepared to begin marching. People carry posters of Soviet Russian leaders. A large poster shows the goals of the current five-year plan to be accomplished by 1950. Civilians parade and carry banners. They cheer and wave. Joseph Stalin waves to the civilians. Nikolai Bulganin and Georgy Malenkov stand with Stalin. Views of clock on Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin (Red Square, 3, Moscow, Russia, 109012).
Salt being extracted from the surface of Lake Lake Baskunchak, 270 km North of the Caspian Sea, USSR. Narrator says it is sufficient for the needs of the entire Soviet Union. View of waves rippling over salt deposits in a part of the Russian lake. A dredging-type tool spins as it grinds and extracts salt from the lake surface. A conveyer system carrying the extracted salt to rail cars. A woman inside a control shack, on a railroad car, controls the speed of the conveyer with a large wheel. Salt is seen clearly deposited on the conveyer panels as they rise. View from below, of the control shack and water being discharged back into the lake from a pipe. View of the conveyer, mounted on its rail car, emptying salt into a train of open rail cars on a parallel set of tracks. At the same time water flows from its discharge pipe, on the opposite side, back into the lake. Finally, a locomotive is seen pulling rail cars filled with salt.
May Day celebration in Kiev, Soviet Union. Parade through the city streets. Civilians parade with banners and big cut outs of Stalin in streets as Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin along with other leaders , Georgy Malenkov, Anastas Mikoyan review the parade. Russian tanks and search lights mounted on jeeps during the parade.