USSR in 1959 (1959)

Flight of the interplanetary space station Luna-2 in outer space.

A leaf from a flip calendar with the launch date of September 12, 1959. A newspaper issue in a printing house.

A report on the launch of a Soviet space rocket to the Moon, published in the Pravda newspaper.

People on the streets of Moscow buying and reading newspapers.

Publications in foreign newspapers.

The launch of the Vostok-L launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

A satellite in flight (animation).

The flight of a satellite in near-earth orbit (animation).

Sightseers looking at a model of the interplanetary space station.

The faces of the sightseers.

A rotating radio antenna.

The flight observation equipment in operation.

Telescope lenses.

The faces of people waiting in line to look through a telescope.

A view of the approaching lunar surface.

Emblems with the date and the USSR coat of arms left in the lunar soil.

The faces of applauding people.

A space rocket in flight, separation of the first stage (animation).

Interplanetary stations in outer space (staging).

Landing of an astronaut on the surface of the Moon (fragment of the feature film).

Khrushchev's motorcade drives along the streets of New York during Khrushchev's visit to the United States in September 1959. Americans greet Khrushchev.

Panorama of one of the streets of New York, filled with people greeting Khrushchev.

View of the UN building.

Khrushchev, leading the Soviet delegation, heads to the podium in the UN conference hall.

Khrushchev sits down in a chair.

View of the UN conference hall during Khrushchev's speech.

Khrushchev speaks from the podium at the UN. Panorama of the UN conference hall, the participants of the meeting applaud Khrushchev after the speech.

View of the central part of Leningrad, the Admiralty building and the Peter and Paul Fortress (from above).

Icebreaker "Lenin" on the Neva.

Residents of the city on the Neva embankment during the icebreaker's passage.

Interior view of the icebreaker's engine room, panorama of the power plant (top).

Engineers of the icebreaker's nuclear reactor control group at work.

Interior of the icebreaker's wardroom.

Crew members in the wardroom, an officer plays the piano.

Icebreaker captain P. Ponomarev holds a meeting.

The captain goes out onto the bridge.

Faces of the captain and the senior assistant.

Translation of the engine room telegraph handles.

The captain and officers of the icebreaker on the bridge.

Panorama of a part of the Yenisei, Siberian landscape.

Members of the ethnographic expedition walk along a path on a coastal cliff.

The head of the expedition shows his colleagues the rock carvings.

Fragments of the rock carvings (panorama).

Members of the ethnographic expedition make copies and sketches of the rock carvings, panorama of one of the drawings.

Expedition members at work, face of the expedition leader.

Copies of rock paintings made by expedition members.

Catch of Black Sea fishermen in a net.

Face of one of the fishermen.

Fishermen pull out a net with the catch.

Catch in the nets.

Dolphins jumping out of the water.

Airplane flying.

Airplane radio operator maintaining contact.

View of a vessel with a dolphin enclosure (top).

Fishing seiners at sea.

The captain of one of the seiners gives a command into a tin megaphone.

Dolphins inside the enclosure.

Loading caught dolphins on board the vessel.

Visitors to the exhibition of folk art samples examine the exhibits.

Figurines made of natural materials and presented at the exhibition.

Samples of painted clay figurines.

Children's faces, wooden toys with movable parts.

Russian nesting dolls on display at the exhibition.

Views of a birch forest.

Artists of the "Beryozka" ensemble during filming.

The director gives instructions to the artists.

Performance of one of the dance numbers of the ensemble, faces of the artists.

Birch trunks (below).

Performance of the dance, the director directs the filming.

Accompanying musicians.

End of the dance number, bow.