Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the USSR in 1979.
It contains stock footage of Moscow:
00:00 – The Kremlin (Sobornaya Square with the churches, the Tsar-Bell, the Tsar-Cannon; overview of Arsenal, Troitskaya Tower, The State Kremlin Palace).
01:37 – Hotel Rossiya (destroyed).
01:45 – Overview near the hotel on Varvarka (then Razina) Street: Church of the Theotokos of the Sign (Znamensky Monastery), Church of St. George on Pskov Hill.
02:02 – Church of Saint Maximus the Confessor.
VDNKh (All-Russian Exhibition Center):
02:14 – Main Entrance.
02:22 – Main Exhibition Hall.
02:28 – Soviet Press Pavilion.
02:33 – Soviet Culture Pavilion.
02:43 – Tu-154 (destroyed), Yak-42 and “Vostok 8K72K” Rocket near Cosmos Pavilion.
03:02 – The Stone Flower fountain.
03:08 – The Friendship of Nations fountain.
A Moskva River cruise:
03:18 – The Kremlin Wall.
03:26 – Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.
03:55 – Administrative building at Frunzenskaya Embankment, 20.
04:00 – Luzhniki sport complex (still under construction for the 1980 Olympic Games).
04:13 – “Leninskiye Gory” (now “Vorobyovy Gory” metro-bridge-station).
04:18 – Lenin Stadium (now “Luzhniki”) at that time under reconstruction.
04:38 – Krasnoluzhsky Railway Bridge (later moved 2 km up the Moskva River and turned into a pedestrian bridge).
04:45 – Moscow State University.
08:09 – Novodevichy Convent (at that time under reconstruction for the 1980 Olympic Games).
And more.
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