Moscow. The Fifth Session of the Supreme Soviet USSR of the Fifth Convocation ... at the Bol'shoy Kremlin Palace – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Moscow. The Fifth Session of the Supreme Soviet USSR of the Fifth Convocation ... at the Bol'shoy Kremlin Palace, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Moscow. The Fifth Session of the Supreme Soviet USSR of the Fifth Convocation ... at the Bol'shoy Kremlin Palace
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Few rooms in the Soviet Union carried as much formal weight as the Bolshoy Kremlin Palace, where this photograph records the Fifth Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Fifth Convocation, held on May 5, 1960. The Supreme Soviet was the country's official legislature, and its sessions were carefully staged events meant to display the authority of the central government. S. Savost'yanova made the print for the Soviet news agency TASS, so it reflects the official photojournalism of the Khrushchev years. The caption details come from an unverified card, so viewers should rely on the image itself for the scene's specifics.
| Created / published | 1960 May 5. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by S. Savost'yanova (TASS). No. 444805. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,018 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159374 |
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