Moscow 1976 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker visiting the USSR in March 1976. It contains stock footage of Moscow: (00:00) Red Square: Lenin Mausoleum and State Historical Museum (00:14) State Department Store (00:22) Spasskaya Tower (00:32) St. Basil’s Cathedral (00:55) Traffic in the streets from Bolshoy Theatre, touristic bus stop at Prospekt Marksa (now Okhotny […]
Moscow 1971 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR, probably in 1971. It contains stock footage of Moscow and a few shots of the area around it, Podmoskovye – Moscow Oblast: (00:00) An outdoor thermometer constructed on a house in Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) opposite the Central Telegraph building in 1970, and demounted […]
Leningrad 1976 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in March 1976. It contains stock footage of Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg): Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, vintage Soviet cars in front of the Monument to Nicholas I on Isaakievskaya Ploshchad (St. Isaac’s Square), driver’s POV while driving on Leningrad’s streets (Monument to Alexander Pushkin, Moscow […]