Moscow 1979 archive footage

Moscow 1979

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 1987 archive footage

Moscow 1987

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while touring the Soviet Union – USSR in 1987. It contains stock footage of Moscow: 00:00 – view of St Basil Cathedral from Hotel “Rossiya” bus stop; 00:13 – St Basil, Minin and Pozharskiy monument in the Red Square; 00:40 – a queue to Lenin’s Mausoleum; 00:57 – […]

Moscow 1984 archive footage

Moscow 1984

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 […]