Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the 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).
00:57 – Red Square (Saint Basil’s Cathedral under restoration, Spasskaya Tower, Lenin Mausoleum, State Historical Museum, GUM Store; Honor Board at Mausoleum).
Manezhnaya Street:
02:10 – 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).
02:14 – Building of State Duma now, but then the State Planning Committee (Gosplan).
02:21 – Hotel “Moskva” (destroyed and rebuilt).
02:27 – Building of Mossovet (Moscow Soviet of People’s Deputies) at Tverskaya, 13, the House of Moscow Governor-General.
02:33 – Triumfalnaya Square with Mayakovskiy monument.
02:37 – Hotel Pekin (Beijing).
02:46 – Novodevichy Convent.
03:20 – Moscow State University.
Taras Shevchenko Embankment:
03:48 – Hotel Ukraina and the under-construction building of The House of the Soviets of RSFSR (White House).
03:52 – Kalinin Prospekt (now Novy Arbat Street) on the other side of the Moskva River.
03:56 – The building of COMECON (The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance).
04:02 – A conference hall (now Concert Hall of Moscow Government).
04:08 – Oktyabr’ Cinema with the movie “Cleopatra” (1963) poster.
04:11 – Church of St. Simeon Stylites (built between 1676 and 1679).
04:14 – 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).
04:22 – Borovitskiye Gates of the Moscow Kremlin.
04:37 – Bolshoi Theatre.
04:40 – The Moscow Manege (on the left) and Manezhnaya Square with Hotel Moskva.
04:41 – The House of the Unions.
04:43 – The Bolshoi Theatre.
04:52 – Tsum Store & Maly Theatre on Teatral’ny Proyezd (then part of Prospekt Marx).
04:54 – Dzerzhinsky monument on Lubyanka Square (overturned in August 1991, but survived and set up in the Cental House of Artists near Park Kultury now).
04:56 – Komsomol’skaya Square, aka “The Three-Railway-stations” Square: Leningradskiy (on the left of the shot at 04:56), Yaroslavskiy (on the right and further).
05:03 – A wedding ceremony in Aleksandrovsky Garden near The Kremlin Wall at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
And more.
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