Name: Mikhail Kalatazov. Valerii Chkalov (1941) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921
Uploaded: 2014-04-04T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: Chkalov was the classic hero of the Stalin era, whose unbridled will is harness by the efforts of an older mentor, in this case his commanding officer. Secretly proud that his disciple dares to fly under the Leningrad bridge, he nevertheless demands that he submit himself to discipline.

First Anniversary of Menshevik Georgia (1919) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921

Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

Tiflis on the first anniversary of Georgian independence, May 1919. A parade of physical-culturalists, demonstrators, Boy Scouts. Coaches and automobiles decorated with flowers move through the streets. Within a year, the Bolsheviks would have taken power in Transcauscasia.

First Anniversary of Menshevik Georgia (1919)

Mikhail Kalatazov. Valerii Chkalov (1941)