Newsreel of the USSR's achievements (1961)

Photojournalists are filming.

Transportation of a spacecraft on rails to the launch site.

View of the first stage rocket engines during transportation, engine nozzles.

Interior view of the computing center.

The nuclear icebreaker Arktika moves through the ice (top).

An excavator bucket scoops up soil.

Dumping soil from the bodies of heavy-duty dump trucks.

Farmers wash their faces from a new irrigation canal.

Installation of a concrete structure using a helicopter crane in the 1970s.

A sign announcing the construction of the Druzhba gas pipeline.

Panorama of the construction of the dam of one of the hydroelectric power plants.

Interior view of the control room.

Types of construction of various facilities in the USSR. Opening of a telescope at the observatory.

Launching of new ships in 1970-1985. A passenger plane flies.

Production processes at industrial metallurgical enterprises and in mines.

Panorama of one of the new chemical plants.

Panorama of multi-story residential buildings of a new city block.

A sign at the entrance to Zelenograd.

Entrance to the utility camp of N.A. Zlobin's construction team.

Zlobin on the territory of the camp among the team members.

The foreman of the tractor brigade of the XX Congress of the CPSU collective farm A. Gitalov inspects agricultural machinery.

Ophthalmologist S. Fyodorov prepares for an operation.

An operation being performed at the Fyodorov Institute.

Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich during a rehearsal.

A fragment of one of Grigorovich's ballets.

Grigorovich and the artists bow to the audience from the stage.

The Olympic flame bowl at the Luzhniki stadium.

View of the Luzhniki stadium during the closing ceremony of the 1980 Olympics, the Olympic symbol, the Teddy Bear, rises into the sky.

Fireworks in the sky above the stadium.

Views of various construction projects in the 1970s and 1980s, welding of reinforcement frames.

Cosmonauts in orbit conduct scientific research in zero gravity conditions.

A helicopter hovering in the sky.

People run across a field to the landed descent module of the spacecraft.

The descent module after landing.

Rescuers inspect the capsule of the device.

General Designer Sergei Korolev at the command post during the launch of the spacecraft on April 12, 1961. Launch of the spacecraft.

View of Red Square during a ceremonial meeting in honor of the first manned space flight.

Gagarin Yu. A. reports on the phone about the successful completion of the space flight.

Photos of Gagarin among the military and scientists before the flight to Moscow.

A military orchestra marches along the Vnukovo airfield during the ceremonial meeting of Gagarin Yu. A. April 14, 1961. View of the three-tiered platform for photo reporters and cameramen at Vnukovo.

Gagarin Yu. A. after exiting the plane walks along the red carpet to report to the leadership of the USSR on the successful completion of the space flight.

Faces of scientists and astronauts on the monitor screen.

Astronauts wave goodbye from one of the platforms before climbing into the cabin of the spacecraft.