Archival footage shot by an Austrian filmmaker while touring USSR in 1979.
It contains stock footage of Moscow:
00:00 – The Kremlin (view from Sofiyskaya Embankment of the Moskva River, then Maurice Thorez Embankment)
00:48 – Red Square (Saint Basil’s Cathedral under restoration, Spasskaya Tower, Lenin Mausoleum, State Historical Museum, GUM Store; Honor Board at Mausoleum)
Views from the window of a bus
Manezhnaya Street:
01:44 – The Pashkov House – part of Lenin’s Library complex), Manezhnaya Square (from 1967 to 1991 renamed after the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution Square)
01:48 – building of State Duma now, but then the State Planning Committee (Gosplan)
01:50 – Hotel “Moskva” (destroyed and rebuilt) >Gorky Street (Tverskaya): (01:51) building of Mossovet (Moscow Soviet of People’s Deputies) at Tverskaya, 13, the House of Moscow Governor-General, (01:57) Triumfalnaya Square with Mayakovskiy monument, (02:02) Hotel Pekin (Beijing)
02:04 – Novodevichy Convent
02:22 – Moscow State University
Taras Shevchenko Embankment: (02:27) Hotel Ukraina and the under construction building of The House of the Soviets of RSFSR (White House), (02:30) Kalinin Prospekt (now Novy Arbat Street) on the other side of the Moskva River
02:33 – the building of COMECON (The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
02:36 – a conference-hall (now Concert Hall of Moscow Government)
02:44 – Oktyabr’ Cinema with the movie “Cleopatra” (1963) poster
02:47 – Church of St. Simeon Stylites (built between 1676 and 1679)
02:49 – Two buildings of nowadays’ Rossotrudnichestvo (The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation): the residence (the Shakhovskies, the Krause, the Osiposovskies Minor and The Arseny Morozov House – then The House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries)
02:56 – Borovitskiye Gates of the Moscow Kremlin
03:01 – The Moscow Manege (on the left) and Manezhnaya Square with Hotel Moskva
03:14 – The House of the Unions
03:10 and 03:17 – The Bolshoi Theatre
03:25 – Tsum Store & Maly Theatre on Teatral’ny Proyezd (then part of Prospekt Marx)
03:27 – Dzerzhinsky monument on Lubyanka Square (overturned in August 1991, but survived and set up in the Cental House of Artists near Park Kultury now)
03:28 – Komsomol’skaya Square, aka “The Three-Railway-stations” Square: Leningradskiy (on the left of the shot at 03:29), Yaroslavskiy (on the right and further) and Kazansky Railway Station (at 03:37 as well)
03:46 – a wedding ceremony in Aleksandrovsky Garden near The Kremlin Wall at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
03:59 – the KREMLIN (Sobornaya Square with the churches on it, the Tsar-Bell, the Tsar-Cannon; overview of Arsenal, Troitskaya Tower, The State Kremlin Palace)
05:24 – Hotel Rossiya (destroyed)
05:32 – overview near the hotel on Varvarka (then Razina) Dtreet: Church of the Theotokos of the Sign (Znamensky Monastery), Сhurch of St. George on Pskov Hill
05:49 – Church of Saint Maximus the Confessor
VDNKh (All-Russian Exhibition Center):
06:00 – Main Entrance
06:06 – Main Exhibition Hall
06:12 – Soviet Press Pavilion
06:18 – Soviet Culture Pavilion
06:22 – Tu-154 (destroyed), Yak-42 and “Vostok 8K72K” Rocket near Cosmos Pavilion
06:33 – The Stone Flower fountain
06:46 – The Friendship of Nations fountain .A Moskva River cruise:
06:54 – The Kremlin Wall
07:03 – Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
07:30 – administrative building at Frunzenskaya Embankment, 20
07:39 – Luzhniki sport complex (still under construction for 1980 Olympic Games)
07:42 and 07:48 – Lenin Stadium (now “Luzhniki”) at that time under reconstruction
07:45 – “Leninskiye Gory” (now “Vorobyovy Gory” metro-bridge-station)
07:57 – Krasnoluzhsky Railway Bridge (later moved 2 km up the Moskva River and turned into a pedestrian bridge)
08:06 – Moscow State University
08:09 – Novodevichy Convent (at that time under reconstuction for 1980 Olympic Games).
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