Unforgetable day (1938)

Panorama of the central square of Yoshkar-Ola, monument to V.I. Lenin on the square.

Polling stations in Yoshkar-Ola, opened on the occasion of the elections of deputies of the Supreme Soviets of the RSFSR and the Mari ASSR.

A car is passing along one of the streets.

View of a wooden two-storey house with a portrait of I.V. Stalin on the facade.

Panorama of the facade of one of the residential buildings, a portrait of Stalin on the facade and slogans calling for elections.

People with banners in their hands in a column enter the building of the 11th polling station of the Yoshkar-Ola City Railway Electoral District, where Stalin is running for deputy.

Brass band at the entrance to the polling station.

People enter the building.

Receipt of ballots.

View of the polling station hall with voting booths.

People come into the booths, come out.

Voters drop their ballots into the ballot boxes.

Komsomol members drop ballots into the ballot box.

Portrait of Stalin with Geli Marquizova in his arms, hanging on the wall in the kindergarten, children play under the portrait.

Children with soft toys in their hands.

People come out of the voting booths.

Voters drop their ballots into the ballot boxes.

People climb the steps of the entrance to the polling station.

Collective farmers of one of the farms of the Mari ASSR go to the elections in the back of a truck, behind the truck go collective farmers in horse-drawn carts.

Collective farmers drive past a field of wheat.

A truck is passing along a village street, collective farmers with banners are riding in the back.

The girls are going to vote.

Horse-drawn carriages with collective farmers going to vote are passing along the street.

People enter the clubhouse where the polling station is located.

Collective farmers of the Mari ASSR go to the polls.

View of the part of the rally in Yoshkar-Ola, held on June 27, 1938 and dedicated to the election results.

View of the rally podium, a woman at the microphone.

The faces of the rally participants, portraits of Stalin and Molotov.

Athletes stand under portraits of Stalin and Molotov.

The speaker on the podium delivers a speech into the microphone.

The participants of the rally listen to the speech of the next speaker.

The face of one of the participants of the rally.

The leaders of the Mari ASSR and the Republican NKVD from the rostrum greet the participants of the festive demonstration.

The speaker on the podium delivers a speech into the microphone.

A column of athletes passes by.

Demonstrators pass in front of the podium, holding portraits of Stalin and banners with slogans.

Panorama of the rally in Yoshkar-Ola, portraits of Stalin and Voroshilov in the hands of the rally participants.