From the history of Moscow (1912-1932)

View of the Sukharev Tower in Moscow in 1932. Sign of the Moscow Communal Museum.

Cover of the photo album "Old Moscow".

View of part of one of the courtyards of old Moscow in the first decade of the 20th century (top), people listen to an organ grinder.

Residents of Moscow pass by a wooden fence, behind which a train passes.

View of one of the Moscow streets with wooden residential buildings, a woman collects water from a column.

Filling a bucket with water from a column.

View of a two-story wooden residential building in one of the working-class suburbs of Moscow in the first decade of the 20th century.

Knitting brooms in a workshop.

Washing on a line stretched from balcony to balcony.

Interiors of workers' apartments, the everyday life of working-class families.

A working-class family huddled in one room.

A woman rocks a cradle.

A baby's face.

Residents at the table playing cards.

A man repairs shoes.

An elderly woman in bed.

Workers on bunks in the barracks.

Prisoners disembarking from a train car, with convoy soldiers standing near the car.

Convoying prisoners through the prison yard.

A prison carriage leaves the prison gates.

Seeing off those mobilized to the front in August 1914. Convicts under escort walk along the road.

Church bells ring.

A queue at the canteen for a free lunch.

Drinking alcoholic beverages on Khitrovka.

An intoxicated woman lies on the sidewalk.

A sentry at a booth on duty.

A drunk girl throwing snow, views of church domes.

A soldier doing a bayonet fight exercise in the barracks yard.

View of a prison wall.

Crosses on church domes.

A patriotic procession with portraits of the emperor and his family.

Faces of officials.

Faces of workers.

A ceremonial procession in the Kremlin during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov, representatives of the clergy, Emperor Nicholas II with family members pass by.

The explosion and collapse of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on December 5, 1931. Destruction of churches, falling domes.

Removing sheets of gilding from a church dome.

Throwing a church dome to the ground.

View of Red Square during a demonstration in the early 1930s.

Demolition of old buildings in Moscow, views of the demonstration.

Views of the construction of the Mossovet Hotel.

Construction of new apartment buildings in Moscow.

Masons and finishers at work.

A roller laying asphalt.

Laying asphalt on one of the streets in Moscow.

Restoration work on the decorations of historical buildings.

Types of asphalt roller.

Builders on scaffolding, roofers at work.

Laying metro tunnels.

Scheme of future Moscow metro lines (animation).

Movement of commuter trains in the vicinity of Moscow.

Types of new apartment buildings and neighborhoods.

People take out their things during a move to a new apartment.

Loading things onto a dray cart.

The cart with things drives out of the gate onto the street.

New residents walk behind the cart along one of the streets in Moscow.

Types of buildings constructed according to new designs.

The cart with things drives up to the entrance of a new building.

Parents take a child off the cart.

New residents carry things into the entrance.

New residents bring things into a new apartment.

A man screws an electric light bulb into a socket.

The interior of one of the rooms in a new apartment, a man is sitting on a sofa.

Types of parks, squares, avenues and squares of Moscow in the early 1930s.

A tram passes a new factory building.

Views of new buildings of Moscow industrial enterprises.

Views of the Moscow Planetarium.

View of the building of the Lenin Institute and the Central Party Archive from Gorky Street.

Views of the new buildings of the hospital, post office, factory kitchen and the Zuev Culture House, built in the late 1920s.