Moscow newsreel (1900-1980)

The ceremonial exit of the motorcade from the gates of the Spasskaya Tower in 1913. Buyers and sellers at one of the Moscow markets.

A seller of wooden toys at the market.

An organ grinder with a parrot.

Buyers cross a puddle on the market square.

Panorama of part of the market in the 1920s.

Streets of Moscow during the NEP period.

Movement of draymen along one of the Moscow streets.

View of part of Kalanchevskaya Square.

A horse-drawn tram passes.

The croup of horses harnessed to a horse-drawn tram car.

Views of part of the market.

View of part of one of the Moscow squares (from above).

A fire brigade during the extinguishing of a fire on Tverskaya Street in the 1910s, firefighters dismantle the roof of a burning warehouse, smoke billows from the open doors.

View of part of the rally on Strastnaya Square in March 1917. A tram switchwoman sits at a tram switch in 1927, a tram passes by.

View of part of Tverskaya Street in the 1910s (top).

View of part of one of the Moscow streets, movement of public and automobile transport in the early 1930s.

A policeman-traffic controller on one of the streets of Moscow.

Movement of public transport through an intersection.

View of part of the city block adjacent to Sukharevskaya Square.

The Chelyuskinites’ automobile motorcade and the police mounted escort drive along Gorky Street during the ceremonial meeting on June 19, 1934. View of part of the motorcade, the cars are decorated with flowers.

Otto Yulyevich Schmidt with the expedition members rides in a car.

View of Gorky Street during the meeting of the Chelyuskinites (top).

Cars with members of V.P. Chkalov’s crew drive through Moscow during their ceremonial meeting on July 27, 1937, leaflets are flying from above.

Chkalov responds to greetings from Moscow residents from his car, with his wife and son nearby.

One of the cars in the motorcade drives along Gorky Street, with leaflets flying from above.

View of part of Pushkinskaya Square (above).

View of part of the Izvestia plant building and the upper part of the bell tower of the Strastnoy Monastery in the early 1930s.

Views of part of the Izvestia plant building, passers-by on Pushkinskaya Square.

View of the monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Decoration of buildings on Pushkinskaya Square for the 100th anniversary of Pushkin's death (panorama).

View of the Triumphal Gate on the square in front of the Belorussky Railway Station in the first half of the 1930s (above), with trams passing under the gate.

Dismantling of the statues of the Triumphal Gate in 1936. Loading one of the statues onto a truck platform.

A surveyor surveys the street before work began on moving the Pushkin monument to Tverskoy Boulevard in 1950. Welding work at the Pushkin monument before it began to be moved, rails in front of the monument's pedestal.

View of Pushkin Square during work on moving the Pushkin monument to the beginning of Tverskoy Boulevard.

View of Sytin's House during work on moving it towards Nastasinsky Lane in 1979 (panorama, from above).

View of Sytin's House, passers-by walking by.

View of part of the building being demolished, transport driving by.

Views and panorama of old buildings being demolished, public transport driving by.

Demolition of the building in front of the Moskva Hotel using an explosion in 1938, collapse of the building's walls.

Excavator bucket with construction waste.

Workers demolishing a building in Okhotny Ryad on the site of the Moskva Hotel in 1931. Preparing the building for relocation.

View of the Sytin House during its relocation in 1979. View of the entrance to the Central Telegraph building on Gorky Street (top-down panorama).

Panorama of one of Moscow's intersections in the 1970s (top).