Great Goodbye

Film chronicle of the funeral of I. V. Stalin. Moscow city. March 6-9, 1953. Farewell to the body of JV Stalin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. The coffin with the body of I. V. Stalin. Guard of honor. Buildings in Moscow with flags of mourning, including the buildings of the embassies. Arrival of foreign delegations. Queues at newsstands. People wishing to say goodbye to the body of JV Stalin are moving along the streets of Moscow (day and night shooting). People walk past the coffin with the body of JV Stalin. Artists make sketches from nature. Sculptor E. Vuchetich at work. Wreaths from foreign countries, diplomatic corps. Removal of the coffin with the body of JV Stalin from the House of Unions. The funeral procession moves along Red Square. Troops in Red Square and adjacent streets. Funeral rally on Red Square. Speakers NS Khrushchev (synchronously), GM Malenkov, VM Molotov. NS Khrushchev gives the floor to LP Beria. Mausoleum. The inscription on the Mausoleum: "Lenin. Stalin". People listen to the broadcast of the funeral meeting. Chimneys of factories and factories, steam locomotives are buzzing. Funeral meetings at industrial enterprises, in military units. Funeral rallies in cities: Vienna, Amsterdam, Sofia, Berlin, Shanghai, Beijing, Budapest, Bucharest, Prague. Funeral rallies in the cities of the Soviet Union, including Sverdlovsk, Minsk, Vilnius, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Tbilisi, Gori, Tashkent, Yerevan, Alma-Ata, Leninabad, Stalingrad and other cities and towns. Among those present at the funeral: K. E. Voroshilov, G. M. Malenkov, N. A. Bulganin, V. M. Molotov, N. S. Khrushchev, L. M. Kaganovich, A. I. Mikoyan, N. M Shvernik, L. P. Beria, M. Z. Saburov, M. G. Pervukhin, G. K. Zhukov, S. K. Timoshenko, L. A. Govorov, A. M. Vasilevsky, M. F. Shkiryatov , M. A. Suslov, A. A. Andreev, V. I. Stalin and S. I. Stalin, S. M. Budyonny, V. D. Sokolovsky, I. S. Konev, K. A. Meretskov, N .AND. Muskhelishvili, A.N. Nesmeyanov, A.I. Oparin, A. I. Mikoyan (aircraft designer), Zhou Enlai and Guo Mo-Jo (China), K. Gottwald (Czechoslovakia), B. Bierut (Poland), I. Koplenig (Austria), K. Rokossovsky, M. Sholokhov , A. Fadeev, S. Marshak, S. Mikhalkov, I. Kozlovsky, M. Reisen, A. Tarasova, E. Gogoleva, A. Stepanova, S. Gerasimov, M. Chiaureli, V. Pudovkin, N. Cherkasov, Metropolitan Krutitsky and Kolomensky Nikolay, O. Grotewohl and V. Ulbricht (GDR), G. Georgiu-Dej and P. Groza (Romania), M. Rakosi (Hungary), V. Chervenkov (Bulgaria), P. Togliatti (Italy), D. Ibarruri (Spain), Pak Den Ai, G. Pollit (USA), P. Carrigan (Great Britain).

Color

60

1953