Archival footage shot by an Austrian filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1984.
It contains stock footage of Moscow:
00:00 – 00:47 – view from Hotel “Sebastopol” built in 1979 for Olympiad-80 (Bol’shaya Yushun’skaya Street, 1a);
00:46 – 01:01 – Novodevichy Convent;
01:02 – Concert Hall of Hotel Rossiya (destroyed now);
01:15 – Razina Street (Varvarka now);
01:22 – Church of Saint Nicholas in Khamovniki (late 17th-century);
01:30 – Moscow State University skyscraper;
02:23 – Luzhniki Stadium;
02:45 – Triumfal’naya Arka (Triumphal Arch);
03:14 – Bolshoi Theatre;
03:33 – Yuriy Dolgorukiy Monument;
04:02 – the Kremlin;
04:45 – Hotel Rossiya (view from Sofiyskaya Embankment; then Maurice Thorez Embankment);
05:02 – view of Saint Basil’s Cathedral from Vasilyevskiy Spusk square (then part of Red Square);
05:55 – Honour Guard near Lenin’s Mausoleum in Red Square and Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin;
06:13 – view of Saint Basil’s Cathedral from Red Square with Minin & Pozharskiy monument;
06:32 – Lenin’s Mausoleum.
The Kremlin:
07:48 – The Kremlin Armoury;
08:41 – The Annunciation Cathedral;
10:23 – the Assumption Belfry adjoined Ivan the Great Bell Tower;
10:56 – Tsar’s Bell and Spasskaya Tower;
11:26 – The Kremlin Presidium (Building 14; demolished in 2016) and Arsenal;
12:03 – The State Kremlin Palace.
VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy – All-Russian Exhibition Center):
12:47 – The main entrance;
13:15 – Central Pavilion;
14:04 – Zolotoy Kolos restaurant (built in 1954) with the Zolotoy Kolos fountain near it;
14:18 – Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft (reg. # SSSR-85005, prod. # 70M005, produced in 1970) which was barbarously destroyed on September 13th 2008;
14:36 – Vostok 8K72K rocket;
14:56 – Yakovlev YaK-42 aircraft;
15:31 – Kosmos pavilion;
16:33 – All-Union Board of Honour;
16:54 – the Stone Flower fountain, near Agriculture Pavilion;
17:14 – the Friendship of Nations fountain.
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