Newsreel of Russia and the USSR (1913-1970)

A train with valuables being evacuated from the Hermitage departs for the East in 1941. Views of Moscow streets in the evening in 1927, people on the streets, trams and motor vehicles moving.

Faces of young children in a kindergarten playing spoons.

A teacher sets the rhythm for a children's orchestra.

Children and teachers dance in a circle around a teddy bear.

View of one of the sculptures on the Anichkov Bridge in Leningrad in the first half of the 1920s.

A cannon on the bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress gives a daily signal.

Faces of participants in the ceremonial rally in honor of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1927. A column of demonstrators on Palace Square in Leningrad.

View of part of Millionnaya Street and the portico of the New Hermitage with Atlanteans during the demonstration on November 7, 1927 (top).

Red banners above the columns of the demonstration on the Palace Square.

Faces of the passing participants of the demonstration.

People at the entrance to the building of the Academy of Arts in Petrograd before the opening of the "Exhibition of Petrograd Artists of All Movements" on May 17, 1923. Participants of the exhibition, Petrograd artists, standing at the entrance to the building of the Academy of Arts (panorama).

Procession of the participants of the exhibition along the Neva embankment.

Views of the streets and buildings of Leningrad in the early 1970s.

A freight horse-drawn tram passes along a street of St.

Petersburg in the 1910s.

A tram and passers-by on the streets of Leningrad.

Windows and doors of a tram car.

Views of the Lomonosov Bridge across the Fontanka.

A turret on the bridge, a chain hanging from above.

The First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee A.A. Zhdanov greets the participants of the May Day demonstration in 1935-1937. Workers leave the factory gate after the end of their shift.

One of the workers reads the poster for the play "Eugene Onegin" attached to the fence, people passing by stop at the poster and move on.

Playing billiards in one of the Leningrad clubs, the faces of the players.

People dancing in the club hall.

Silhouettes of dancing people in the illuminated window.

Entrance to the building of the Leningrad Cooperative Consumer Society in the mid-1920s, trams passing by.

Entrance to the "Russian Cooperative Bank", people passing by (panorama).

Passenger train on the way.

Arrival of a train at Belorussky Station in 1928. A horseman, a cabby and a platoon of soldiers on the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge in Moscow in 1913. An official with a lady riding in a carriage.

Red Army soldiers hold rifles with bayonets in front of them.

A tractor tows part of a demolished bronze monument.

Children near the rubble of the demolished monument to Alexander III in July 1918. A hand with an orb, broken off from the monument.

View of part of a rally (from above), the face of a speaker.

A model of a clock in one of the columns of the demonstration on November 7 in 1925-1927 in Leningrad.

A model of an elephant on a truck platform moves in a demonstration column past the tribune on Palace Square.

A performance by a group of girls dedicated to the Red Air Fleet in 1923-1924. The faces of applauding Red Army soldiers.

Artists from the "Blue Blouse" theater depict a pyramid in the form of an airplane on stage.

Smiling faces of Red Army soldiers.

People on the streets of Petrograd in 1918-1919, street barter, street knife sharpener at work.

Circular panorama of part of an intersection.

A woman with a child in her arms.

Two men talking, standing near a theater poster.

Riders in carriages on a city street in the 191s.

Two women in fur coats and stoles cross the street.

Playing roulette.

Performance of cabaret artists.

A searchlight in the sky.

View of Liteiny and Palace bridges in Petrograd in 1918-1919. Views of Nevsky Prospect in the late 1930s.

German bombers flying, summer of 1941. Pilot at the control column.

Steering wheel and part of the aircraft instrument panel.

Falling bombs.

Clouds of smoke from a fire.

German bombers in flight.

Bomb explosions at a railway junction (top).

Nazi troops on the march.

A passenger train at the platform in the mid-1950s.

The conductor checks a passenger's ticket.

Seeing off those departing.

Those seeing them off wave goodbye.

The train departs.

Passenger trains at the platforms (top).

The train passes over the bridge.

A freight train on the way.

Landscapes outside the carriage window.

The train passes over the bridge, wheel pairs of the carriages (bottom).

View of the railway track.

The train passes the station.

Carriages of a passing train.

Women and children in the carriages of the train, evacuating to the East at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

View of the railway track, covered with snow, receding into the distance.

A passenger at the window reads a book.

Railway stations in the Leningrad Region.

Newspaper production in a printing house.

Smoke from a locomotive chimney.

A freight train on the way.

Smoke from a locomotive chimney.

The engineer in the locomotive cabin.

Exit from the tunnel, view of the railway track.

Text of a newspaper article about the trial of the "Industrial Party".

Participants in a rally dedicated to the trial of the "Industrial Party" in 1930 vote for the adoption of a resolution.

The shadow of a prisoner walking around the cell (staged scene).

Farewell to passengers on the platform near a carriage of the Moscow-Sochi train in the 1930s.

Passengers board the carriage.

Departure of the train.

A passenger in a compartment near the window.

The conductor pours boiling water from a titanium kettle.

The conductor carries tea around the compartment.

Passengers have lunch in the dining car.

Filling a wine glass with wine.

Views of the streets of Moscow city center in the summer of 1941, transport on the streets.

Views of Gorky Street.

Women and children with gas masks on their sides enter the gateway of a house during an air raid.

Girls go out into the street.

Moscow courtyards deserted during an air raid.

Interior view of Moscow railway station in Leningrad, porters running along the platform to the Moscow train.

The train enters under a canopy.

Accounting staff at work (panorama).

Faces of people gathered on the streets of Moscow near loudspeakers to listen to the speech of the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR V.M. Molotov on June 22, 1941. Face of a doorman at a restaurant.

Legs of dancing people in a restaurant hall.

A visitor at a table.

Hands and face of a pianist.

View of part of the restaurant hall with dancing visitors (from above).

A horseman gallops on horseback against the backdrop of mountains, a horse's hooves.

Nurses from one of the maternity hospitals carry out a newborn wrapped in a swaddling cloth.

Weighing a newborn.

The face of a baby.

Pupils of the younger group of a kindergarten play percussion instruments, faces of babies.

Views of Moscow streets in the autumn of 1941, city transport and military equipment on the streets of the capital.

Views of Moscow streets, people on the streets.

A platoon of Red Army soldiers is walking along the street, followed by a trolleybus.

Train passengers in a dining car.

People gathered for a rally (panorama).

Visitors at tables in the hall of one of the night restaurants in Moscow in 1927. A woman drinks wine from a glass.

Faces of restaurant singers and visitors.

Arrival of a passenger train at the station (top).

Pupils of the younger group of a kindergarten during lunch and games.

Babies jump, sitting on potties.

View of the Astoria Hotel building in Leningrad in the 1930s.

View of St Isaac's Cathedral and part of the hotel building.

Sign with the hotel name in English.

Guests descend the marble staircase.

Interiors of the Astoria rooms.

Passengers in a Leningrad tram in the mid-1950s.

View of the tram interior, the conductor selling tickets.

A moving tram.

A tram on one of the Kyiv routes in the 1930s.

City and automobile transport on the streets of Kharkov.

People with suitcases enter the doors of the station.

People enter the door of the hairdresser's.

View of the post office building in Kyiv.

Views of streets and buildings and buildings of Kyiv.

Entrance to the post office building, people climb the steps.

View of Rubinstein Street in Leningrad in the late 1960s.

A woman and a child are walking along the street.

Leningrad trams on the route.

A tram driver is driving a tram, a view from the front window onto Palace Square and the turn to the Neva embankment.

A view from the window of a tram passing over the bridge over the Neva, a panorama of the front part of the passenger compartment.

A train with freight cars is waiting for people to board, leaving for evacuation in the summer of 1941 (above).

People are sitting on the platform waiting to board the train.

A station attendant is passing by, people are waiting by the cars to board (panorama).