Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1980.
It contains stock footage of Moscow, Russia:
00:00 – people visiting and taking pictures of Tsar Bell and Cannon, and passing in front of the headquarter of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
00:24 – Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
00:28 – A long queue of people in front of the Hotel Moskva, at the time also site of the entrance to the Moscow Metro Okhotny Ryad station
00:41 – Views from a room at Hotel Moskva (destroyed in 2004, then rebuilt as a replica and named Four Seasons Hotel Moscow)
01:12 – Red Square (State Historical Museum, Lenin’s Mausoleum, tourists near GUM Store)
01:51 – tourists at Sofiyskaya Embankment (then Maurice Thorez Embankment) watching the sights of the Kremlin across the frozen Moskva River
02:08 – Red Square (Spasskaya Tower, St. Basil’s Cathedral, panoramic views of the city from a high vantage point)
02:31: tourists walking to the Kremlin via Troitsky Bridge and Troitskaya Gate to the entrance of Troitskaya Tower (Trinity Tower). Today, this entrance is primarily used for staff, service vehicles, and special guests rather than for public access.
02:51 – Panoramic views of Red Square landmarks (St. Basil’s Cathedral under restoration, with vintage cars parked beneath it, soldiers surveying the area, people walking through the Spasskaya Tower gate of the Kremlin, Russian ceremonial guards making goose steps).
05:00 – street scene behind St. Basil’s Cathedral; view of St. Barbara Church at Razina Street (now Varvarka)
05:14 – Spasskaya Tower
05:16 – tourists visiting the Annunciation Cathedral after sunset
06:55 – Terem Palace.
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