Name: Young Republic (Kalmyk ASSR) (1936) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921
Uploaded: 2014-04-12T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: A hallmark of Stalinist nationality policy was that each nationality must possess a distinctive cultural tradition. Here, Kalmyk youngsters perform traditional music and dances in the square for city residents.

Bedbug in the Meyerhold Theater (1929) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921

Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

Sovkinozhurnal no. 82. The Meyerhold Theater; a scene from the production of «Bedbug». Igor Ilinskii in the role of Prisypkin, the Soviet vulgarian transported into a future in which his subspecies has become extinct.

Ceremonial Opening of the Soviet Writers Congress (1934)

Brothers-in-Arms (Sketches from Nature) (1990)

A. Mishurin. The Queen of the Filling Station (1963)