Moscow 1920-1930s (1926-1939)

Panorama of part of the Moscow Kremlin and the Moskva River in the mid-1920s.

A column of trucks drives along Red Square.

View of Red Square.

Views of Moscow streets in the early 1930s (top), traffic.

View of the monument to Ivan Fedorov and part of Teatralny Proyezd.

Views of Moscow streets and squares, public transport and pedestrian traffic (top).

Panorama of Tverskaya Zastava Square and the Belorussky Railway Station building (top).

Views of Sverdlov Square, the Metropol Hotel and the Bolshoi Theater, tram traffic (top).

Views of Moscow squares (top).

View of part of Red Square.

View of Arbatskaya Square (top).

Views of Moscow avenues and squares (top).

People near a tram at a stop (top).

Views of Moscow streets, squares and avenues, traffic and pedestrians (top).

Views of Moscow tram lines (top).

Traffic at one of the intersections (from above).

View of part of Sverdlov Square.

Views of Sukharevskaya Square (from above).

Traffic at one of the intersections (from above).

View of the TsUM building.

View of the Monument to the Soviet Constitution and the fire station building on Sovetskaya Square.

Views of Gorky Street.

Shop windows.

A traffic controller at his post.

View of the platform of one of the Moscow railway stations.

View of the Bolshoi Theater building.

Tram traffic.

People climb into an overcrowded tram.

View of part of Strastnaya Square.

View of part of Gorky Street.

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky opposite the GUM building on Red Square in the late 1920s.

Pedestrians on the streets of Moscow.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin from the embankment of the Moskva River.

Panorama of part of Pashkov House.

View of the Monument to the Soviet Constitution and the fire station building on Sovetskaya Square.

Traffic on one of the streets (from above).

Views of new buildings in Moscow.

View of part of Strastnaya Square.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin and the Moskva River embankment.

View of part of Sverdlov Square in winter (above).

View of the Triumphal Arch.

Pedestrians, city and automobile transport on Moscow streets.

Tram traffic on Chistye Prudy (above).

Views of Moscow streets and squares in winter.

View of a fountain.

A girl combing her hair.

A fountain in the park in front of the Bolshoi Theater.

Faces of girls.

The Ferris wheel is spinning, views of the wheel and cabins.

People riding the Ferris wheel.

The carousel in the Park of Culture and Leisure is spinning, people on the carousel.

The Ferris Wheel attraction.

A tram is passing by.

A couple dancing in a restaurant.

Riding the carousel.

Cars in a garage in the evening.

A half-empty tram is passing.

A record on a gramophone.

Traffic at one of the intersections (top).

A baby in radio headphones.

Children in a nursery group during lunch.

Toddlers in a nursery before bed.

The face of a baby playing on the floor.

The entrance to a private liquor store, the seller is raising the external mechanical curtains.

A traffic controller at the intersection near the semaphore.

Traffic at one of the intersections (top).

Views of the fountain in the park in front of the Bolshoi Theater.

A girl opens the shutters.

A girl's face.

A signboard of a NEPman hairdresser, a cameraman is standing under the signboard and filming.

A shoe shiner at work.

Hair cutting in a hairdresser's, a client in the hairdresser's chair.

A manicurist is treating the nails of one of the clients.

Winders at a textile factory at work.

A traffic controller at a crossroads.

The hand of a cashier counting on a wooden abacus.

Automatic stacking of cigarette boxes.

The cashier's hand turns the handle of the cash register.

Printing newspapers in a printing house.

Manually preparing wrappers for goods, the face of a worker, an automated production process at a tobacco factory.

Hands of telephone operators connecting subscribers at the telephone switchboard, faces of the telephone operators.

Packing cigarettes at a tobacco factory, telephone operators at work.

Hands of a typist, a typewriter keyboard.

Trams on a city street (combined shooting).

Rotating parts of winding machines at a weaving factory.

The cameraman's hand turns the handle of the movie camera, the crank mechanism of the machine in operation.

The lens of the movie camera.

The girl gets up from the bench and leaves.

View of one of the Moscow squares (above).

Glass display case of a restaurant.

Trams during a turn (above).

A cameraman with a tripod and a camera on his shoulder walks past a poster on the wall of a movie theater.

View of part of a tram line (above).

A factory chimney is smoking.

Textile factory equipment in operation.

The cameraman climbs up the chimney using brackets.

Factory machines in operation.

The cameraman prepares to film at the top of the factory chimney.

Tram line turning (above).

A seamstress at work.

Lubrication of operating equipment.

An adjuster inspects the mechanism.

Rotation of gears of a gear transmission.

Starting up the rotating units of a machine.

Views of a part of the bell tower of an Orthodox church.

People in an exhibition pavilion.

Panorama of a part of the VSKhV (VDNKh) territory in 1939 (top).

People walking along the exhibition territory.

Crawler tractors of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant standing on pedestals.

Statues of workers and athletes.

View of a part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Model of the Palace of Soviets with a sculpture of Lenin (top-down panorama).

Comparison of the height of the Palace of Soviets and the towers of the Moscow Kremlin (combined photography).

Flags flutter in the wind.

Sculpture of a swimmer.

View of a fountain.

Plaster vases with flowers standing in a row in a park.

Views of the VSKhV pavilions.

Panorama of a part of the VSKhV territory.

Sculptural group depicting steelworkers.

Statues of athletes.

Photographs of the Moscow Kremlin, streets and houses of Moscow in the early 20th century.