Tbilisi 1981 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1981. It contains stock footage of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia: western tourists walking to Metekhi Virgin Mary Assumption Church, panoramic views of the city including Norashen Church, street traffic, views of the Mtkvari River, the Mtatsminda Ropeway, Mtatsminda Pantheon, Mount Mtatsminda and […]
Sochi 1981 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1981. It contains stock footage of Sochi, a city on the Black Sea in Russia: people walking in Riviera Park, the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, people strolling along the boardwalk, the Akhun Tower, Matsesta Kurort (the spa building), panoramic views of the […]
Pavlovsk 1980 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting USSR in 1980. It contains stock footage of the town of Pavlovsk, 30 km south from St Petersburg: views of the courtyard from Pavlovsk Palace windows, trains with wheels pulling sleighs with tourists on the snow, horses pulling sightseeing sleighs, a group of Western tourists walking […]
Mtskheta 1981 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1981. It contains stock footage of Mtskheta, a city in Georgia, at that time part of the Soviet Union: western tourists walking to Jvari Monastery, historical pictures portraying happy visitors hung outside the monastery, and more. The price to download the video without […]
Kiev 1981 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1981. It contains stock footage of Kiev, today the capital of Ukraine and at that time part of the Soviet Union: street scenes with pedestrians and vintage Soviet cars, old phone booths, a panoramic view of the Square of the October Revolution (today […]
Moscow 1980 archive footage
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 […]
Yalta 1985 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1985. It contains stock footage of Yalta, Ukraine/Russia: views from the cruise ship approaching the port, the captain guiding the ship to the port, St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the Lenin statue on Lenin Embankment, and more. The price to download the video without […]
Suzdal 1979 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the USSR in 1979. It contains stock footage of the city of Suzdal, Russia: Saints Cosmas and Damian Church in Korovniki, the Church of the Transfiguration of Kozlyatevo, the Museum of Wooden Architecture, the Church of the Smolensk, the Temples of the Savior-Efimiev Monastery, Rizopolozhensky Monastery, […]
Sochi 1985 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1985. It contains stock footage of Sochi, Russia: a Lenin portrait hanging on a street, people relaxing at Riviera Park, panoramas of the beach, fishermen with their rods on piers, ships docking at the port, passengers waiting for the ship, and more. The […]
Moscow 1979 archive footage
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 […]
Moscow 1979 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the USSR in 1979. It contains stock footage of Moscow: 00:00 – The Kremlin (view from Sofiyskaya Embankment of the Moskva River, then Maurice Thorez Embankment). 00:57 – Red Square (Saint Basil’s Cathedral under restoration, Spasskaya Tower, Lenin Mausoleum, State Historical Museum, GUM Store; Honor Board […]
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 1979 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the USSR in 1979. It contains stock footage of Leningrad, today’s St Petersburg: driver’s POV while driving a bus in downtown traffic, Russian Ethnographic Museum, Mikhailovsky Palace (State Russian Museum), Zdaniye Birzhi (Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange), panoramic views of the Neva River, the Rostral Column, […]
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 […]
Volzhskiy 1964 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Russia in the Fall of 1964. It contains stock footage of Volzhskiy showcasing the Volga River and Volga Hydroelectric Station, traffic of trucks and cars over the dam, and interior views of turbines and generators, and more. The price to download the video without the watermark […]
Volgograd 1964 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker in the USSR in 1964. It contains stock footage of Volgograd, a city known as Stalingrad until 1961: a group of children in uniforms walking together in the street, the NET (New Experimental Theatre) building, the Square of the Fallen Fighters obelisk, the Eternal Flame, children celebrating in […]
USSR 1960s: The ferry archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while traveling from the USSR, likely from the port of Nakhodka, to Japan (Yokohama). It contains stock footage capturing various views during the journey: passengers’ bags left on the ship, a group of ships docking at the port, the Soviet and Japanese flags fluttering on the mast of […]
Sochi 1985 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1985. It contains stock footage of Sochi, a Russian city located on the Black Sea: panoramas from the cable car arrival, the Fountain Fairy Tale (Fontan Skazka) and the Arboretum (Dendrariy), Zimniy Teatr, tourists relaxing in the outdoor swimming pool of the Moskva […]
Sochi 1985 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1985. It contains stock footage of Sochi, a Russian city located on the Black Sea: crowd outside an Orthodox church (likely Archangel Michael Cathedral before its 1993 restoration), the ice skating arena, the Marine Station, Moskva Hotel, the Matsesta Spa resort, a vintage […]
Bikin 1964 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker in the USSR on his way to the 1964 Olympic Games held in Tokyo, and on his way back home. It contains stock footage of Bikin, Khabarovsk krai: a large crowd of people greeting the Soviet delegation, billboards hanging on the train station’s main building to welcome the […]
Zagorsk (Sergiyev Posad) 1971 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the Soviet Union in the summer of 1971 It contains stock footage of Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in Zagorsk (today’s Sergiyev Posad), a city in Moscow Oblast in today’s Russia: people walking in front of the Church of the Virgin of Smolensk, details of the […]
Kiev 1971 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker during a tour in the USSR in the summer of 1971 It contains stock footage of Kiev: tourists coaches parked outside Hotel Lybid, traffic in front of the National Circus of Ukraine, the National Opera of Ukraine, people walking on Parkovy Pedestrian Bridge and the statue of Volodymyr […]
Moscow 1979 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1979 It contains stock footage of Moscow: the Annunciation Cathedral, traffic along Moskva river in front of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR – the Grand Kremlin Palace, workers digging in the streets, visitors walking in the Red Square, Moscow State University, panoramas […]
Moscow 1971 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker during a tour in the USSR in the summer of 1971 It contains stock footage of Moscow: panoramas of the Grand Kremlin Palace and other buildings of the Red Square in the background of Moskva River, people waiting in queue in front of Lenin’s Mausoleum in the Red […]
Leningrad 1971 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker during a tour in the USSR in the summer of 1971 It contains stock footage of Leningrad (St Petersburg): the Russian cruiser Aurora moored on Neva River, the hydrofoil, Nicholas I equestrian statue, St Isaac’s Cathedral, people visiting Peterhof Palace, the Triumph Arch of the general staff building […]
Brussels (Expo 58) 1958 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Belgium in 1958 It contains color stock footage of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair: people walking in front of the Soviet Pavilion, the American Pavilion, the Overpass (or Passerelle) on the main entrance of the Fair, the Thai Pavilion, the French Pavilion, the Moroccan Pavilion, the […]
Shahrisabz 1981 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1981 It contains stock footage of Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan: people visiting Ak Saray Palace, Kok Gumbaz Mosque before the 1990s huge restoration, and more. The price to download the video without the watermark and use it in your production is 597 euro: Please click […]
Bukhara 1981 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1981 It contains stock footage of Bukhara, Uzbekistan: Grand Bukhara Hotel, Sitorai-Mokhi-Khosa palace, the Ark of Bukhara Fortress, Bolo Hauz Mosque, Chashmai Ayub Mausoleum, Ismail Samani Mausoleum, Mir-i-Arab Madrasa, Kalan Mosque, Toki-Zargaron Trading Dome, Ulugh Beg Madrasa, Ismail Samani Mausoleum, and more. The […]
Vladimir 1987 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1987 It contains stock footage of the city of Vladimir, Russia: Dmitriyevskiy Sobor orthodox church, and more. The price to download the video without the watermark and use it in your production is 597 euro: Please click here to pay and download the […]
Rostov 1987 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1987 It contains stock footage of Rostov in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia: the Church of the Virgin Hodegetria (Rostov Kremlin) and its silver cupolas, details of the facade and the entrance, and more. The price to download the video without the watermark and use […]
Moscow (Museum of Cosmonautics) 1985 archival footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while spending a holiday in Moscow, USSR, probably in 1985 It contains stock footage of the Museum of Cosmonautics: the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, Vostok rocket launcher Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM and Airplane yak-42, All-Russia exhibition center with international tourists, the Interior of the Cosmonautics and […]
Moscow 1985 archival footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while spending a holiday in Russia, at that time part of USSR, probably in 1985 It contains stock footage of Moscow: the Red Square with Kremlin complex, Lenin’s Mausoleum, GUM State Department Store (the main department store of USSR in the Red Square), the State Historical Museum, the […]
USSR 1980s: Factories archive footage
Archival footage shot by a filmmaker, probably while shooting a documentary in 1985 and 1986 in East Ukraine, at that time part of the USSR. It contains stock footage of one or two factories, one of which is in the city of Dergachi: the factory chimney, women working on the production of umbrellas, workers cleaning […]
USSR 1980s: Towns archive footage
Archival footage shot by a filmmaker probably while shooting a documentary in 1981 and 1982 in East Ukraine, at that time part of the USSR. It contains stock footage of normal life in towns, mostly in Dergachi, East Ukraine: Dergachi street sign and cars driving in the snow, man doing gasoline a the gas station, […]
USSR 1980s: Shops archive footage
Archival footage shot by a filmmaker probably while shooting a documentary in 1981 and 1982 in East Ukraine, at that time part of the USSR. It contains stock footage of life in small shops: woman tidying jars of food, man buying sewing thread, woman showing fabrics to customers, and more. The price to download the […]
Leningrad 1963 archive footage
Archival footage shot by a filmmaker while visiting the USSR in October 1963. It contains stock footage of Leningrad, today’s Saint Petersburg (Russia): Cathedral of Saint Isaac, panorama of the buildings on the Neva River, soldiers on the Russian cruiser Aurora, people visiting Kirov Stadium, and more. The price to download the video without the […]
Moscow 1963 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an Italian filmmaker while visiting the USSR in October 1963. It contains stock footage of Moscow, at that time the capital city of the USSR and today the capital city of Russia: 0:00 to 8:17: Red Square (the Historical Museum is in scaffolding, GUM, Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Mausoleum, Kremlin Wall Necropolis) […]
Moscow 1977 archive footage
Archival footage shot by a filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1977. It contains stock footage of Moscow, the Russian capital city: traffic in the streets, Spasskaya Tower, Ivan the Great Bell Tower, and more. The price to download the video without the watermark and use it in your production is 597 euro: Please click […]
Leningrad 1977 archive footage
Archival footage shot by a filmmaker while visiting the USSR in 1977. It contains stock footage of Leningrad (today’s Saint Petersburg): traffic and pedestrians in the streets, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, Palace Square and the Hermitage Museum, Triumphal Arch, Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, Smolny Convent, Smolny Institute and its Lenin’s statue, a wedding […]
Zagorsk (Sergiyev Posad) 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Zagorsk, USSR, a Russian city today known as Sergiyev Posad: dachas on the banks of Sizinikha River, working class houses on the outskirts of the city (probably the village of the paint and varnish plant), traffic […]
Vyborg 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Vyborg, a town in western Russia, close to the Finnish border and at that time part of the USSR: the city sign, factories with black smoke coming out of their chimneys, a group of soldiers walking […]
USSR 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of various places around the USSR. There are two different routes in this footage. Route 1. From Smolensk to Moscow on Minsk Highway (M1 Belarus). All the villages shown are in Smolensk oblast. 00:14 – a GAZ-51 […]
USSR 1960s: Camping archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting USSR in 1961. It contains stock footage of various camping sites around the country where the filmmaker stayed during his trip: the camping canteens, kitchens, tents, an off-road vehicle with an American license plate, guests walking inside the camping sites, and more. The price […]
Smolensk 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Smolensk, a Russian city at that time part of the USSR: the city sign, women unloading a truck in the street, the Cathedral of the Assumption, downtown traffic, the Philharmonic Concert Hall, and more. The price […]
Novgorod 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Novgorod (Veliky Novgorod), a Russian city at that time part of the USSR: the Monument to the Millennium of the Russian Statehood, Cathedral of St. Sophia, Yaroslav Courtyard (Dvorishche), an orchestra playing music, the Volkhov River, […]
Moscow 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. 00:00 – Москва (Moscow) road sign at the entrance of the city, probably along the Mozhaiskoye Shosse-Kutuzovsky prospekt 00:05 – Moscow State University (view from Poklonnaya Gora—Bow-down Hill—on the Kutuzovskiy prospekt) 00:11 – This building (Kutuzovskiy, 45) is on Kutuzovskiy prospekt, […]
Minsk 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Minsk, a city in today’s Belarus and at that time part of the USSR: the street sign with the name of the city, Lenin Square (today’s Independence Square) and the Government House, Trade Union Palace of […]
Leningrad 1961 archive footage
Archival footage shot by Otto Wolf, a Swiss filmmaker, while visiting Europe in 1961. It contains stock footage of Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg), a city of Russia and at that time part of the USSR: traffic in the street, a VIP man who passes in a convertible car and greets people at the side of […]
Leningrad 1959 archive footage
Archival footage probably by a French filmmaker probably in 1959 while touring Eastern Europe. It contains stock footage of Leningrad, today’s St Petersburg: the Horse Tamers statue, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the Mosque, Neva River, Palace Square, Peterhof Palace and Garden, and more. The price to download the video without the […]