Stalin acts as pall-bearer at Orjonikidze's funeral in snowstorm. Stalin and his entire in Political Bureau (the Soviet's powerful directing organisation) acted as pall-bearers at the funeral in Moscow of Grigory Konstantinovich Orjonikidze [Grigol / Sergo Ordzhonikidze], Commissar for Heavy Industry, member of the Political Bureau and Stalin's right-hand man. The funeral took place in a snowstorm. Vast crowds estimated at 200,600 people stood by as the urn containing Orjonikidze's ashes was placed in the Kremlin wall, restingplace of Soviet Russia honoured dead. Photo shows: Stalin (right), fur capped against the snow, and Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (left), Chairman of the Council of Commissars - Prime Minister - leading the pall-bearers in the second row are Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, Commissar for Railways (right) and Marshall Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, War Commissar (left). 24 February 1937