Funeral of G.K. Ordzhonikidze (1937)

Mourning portrait of Ordzhonikidze G.K. Banners with mourning ribbons at the entrance to the building of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR, mourning flags on Moscow buildings.

View of the square filled with people (above).

People with a portrait of Ordzhonikidze and red banners move along the streets of Moscow to the Column Hall of the House of Unions to say goodbye to the deceased.

People pass through the Column Hall, carrying mourning wreaths.

Ordzhonikidze in the coffin, Voroshilov K.E., Stalin I.V., Kalinin M.I., Molotov V.M., Mikoyan A.I., Kaganovich L.M. in the honor guard at Ordzhonikidze's coffin.

People carry mourning wreaths, walk past the coffin.

Ordzhonikidze's relatives stand at the coffin, Ordzhonikidze in the coffin.

Chkalov V.P. and Schmidt O.Yu. in the guard of honor at the coffin.

People walk past Ordzhonikidze's coffin, general view of the coffin decorated with flowers.

View of the urn with Ordzhonikidze's ashes, Ordzhonikidze's portrait under the urn, his awards on pillows.

Ordzhonikidze's relatives stand next to the funeral urn.

Voroshilov, Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich in the guard of honor at the funeral urn.

The face of N.K. Krupskaya.

The face of Ordzhonikidze's weeping widow - Z.G. Pavlutskaya.

Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin, Kaganovich carry the urn with Ordzhonikidze's ashes out of the Hall of Columns.

Faces of the participants in the funeral meeting.

The funeral procession moves to Red Square.

Panorama of Red Square during the funeral meeting, Red Army soldiers are standing with banners, faces of the participants in the meeting.

Molotov, Stalin, Kaganovich, Voroshilov carry the funeral urn to the Kremlin wall, faces of Ordzhonikidze's relatives.

Kaganovich places the urn with Ordzhonikidze's ashes in a niche in the Kremlin wall.

A plaque with the name of Ordzhonikidze, a sentry at the Kremlin wall.