Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in July 1975.
It contains stock footage of Moscow, Russia’s Capital City:
00:00 – the Red Square;
00:10 – Soviet flag fluttering over the Senate building;
00:23 – Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building;
00:33 – a cruise along the Moskva river beginning near Rossiya Hotel Pier; view of the Vodovzvodnaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin from Sofiyskaya Embankment;
00:42 – Rostovskaya Embankment near Borodinskiy bridge;
01:01 – the main building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Kievskiy Railway station;
01:22 – the Novodevichy Convent;
01:40 – the Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk;
02:00 – the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior;
02:54 – the Lopukhin Chamber;
03:09 – the Prokhorovs’ chapel;
03:14 – the Bell Tower of the Novodevichy Convent;
03:40 – the Orlov’s Summer House in the Neskuchny (“not boring”) Garden;
03:48 – the Frunzenskaya Embankment;
03:54 – the bowling pavilion at Gorky Park;
04:08 – Restaurant Burevestnik (later it would be transported to another pier down the Moskva river;
04:29 – the Bolshoy Kamenny (“Greater Stone”) Bridge;
04:42 – the Vodovzvodnaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, the Senate building, and the Cathedral Square ensemble;
04:55 – Various locations of the Kremlin – the Cathedral of the Archangel;
05:02 – 05:24 – the Annunciation Cathedral;
05:11 – the Dormition Cathedral (with Royal Procession door);
05:51 – Ivan the Great Bell Tower;
06:02 – the Tsar Bell;
06:13 – the Tsar Cannon;
06:45 – the Verhospasskiy Cathedral;
06:52 – Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square;
07:43 . the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building;
07:48 – the Rossiya Hotel Concert Hall (with flags and logo of MIFF-1975) – Rossiya Hotel was demolished in 2006; since 2017, Zaryadye Park has been located on the site;
08:31 – the State Department Store;
08:51 – Views from the deck near Moscow State University: “Leninskiye Gory” metro station across the Moskva river (the Druzhba Multipurpose Arena for the Moscow Olympics 1980 hadn’t been built yet);
08:59 – the Luzhniki Stadium;
09:28 – the Ostankino TV Tower;
09:34 – the Moscow State University building.
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