Moscow and Muscovites (1956)

Cherkizovo district - streets with old wooden houses.

Prayer house of the Moscow Metropolitan (built in 1812) on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya street.

A group of women are talking near the house.

Laundry is drying in the street.

General plan of Cherkizovo district from above.

Yauza district before reconstruction (shot from the Matrossky Bridge side towards the electrical plant.

Elektrozavodskaya and Kozhukhovo districts - old wooden houses.

Panorama of multi-storey buildings under construction.

South-West district - new buildings (shot from the side of vegetable gardens).

Buildings under construction and finished buildings.

Lunch break for high-rise construction workers building the Ukraine Hotel.

Workers are having breakfast, playing dominoes, a technician is reading a newspaper.

Panorama of Smolenskaya Square district from the height of a building under construction.

Relocation from old wooden houses to a new house in Shchemilovsky Lane.

A yard and lane with half-collapsed old houses.

Residents take things out of their houses and move them to a new multi-story building.

The oldest photographer N.I. Svishchev-Paola photographs a group of new settlers.

The area of Moscow State University, Luzhniki (with the stadium under construction), Cheryomushki (shot from the building of Moscow State University).

High-rise building of Moscow State University.

The area of the Novodevichy Convent and Usachevka.

Trolleybuses pass by.

Kooperativnaya Street.

The yard of one of the scrap metal shops along Kooperativnaya Street.

A "Milk" van - sellers unload bottles of milk from the car.

A bread seller comes out of a house and delivers bread to apartments.

Children are playing in a sandbox in the yard, there are baby carriages, women are sitting on benches.

Mozhaisk Highway.

Kievsky Railway Station Square, Borodinsky Bridge and a high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square are visible.

The metro bridge, the Moskva River embankment and the Smolenskaya Square area - shot from the building of the "Ukraine" hotel.

Borodinsky Bridge.

Smolenskaya Embankment with new houses, a high-rise building on Vosstaniya Square is visible.

Dorogomilovskaya Street, Smolenskaya Street, Borodinsky Bridge - taken from a high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square.

Smolenskaya Street.

Arbat, a trolleybus passes.

Arbatskaya Square.

Novopeschanye Streets area.

Leningradskoe Shosse.

Belorussky Railway Station Square.

Mayakovsky Square.

Pushkinskaya Square.

Gorky Street (Tverskaya).

Okhotny Ryad.

Sverdlov Square (Teatralnaya Square).

Passers-by on the street.

Kuznetsky Most.

Petrovka Street.

Teatralny Proezd, monument to the first printer Ivan Fedorov.

Tretyakovsky Proezd. 25th October Street (Nikolskaya Street).

Razin Street, wooden church.

Movement of cars and buses.

Boyar's House (built in the 17th century).

Descent to Zaryadye.

Gostiny Dvor.

Pskovsky Lane.

The center of Moscow - taken from above.

Vosstaniya Square.

High-rise building.

Sadovaya Street (from a high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square).

The Moskva River area between Krasnokholmsky and Kamenny bridges.

The Lenin Library building.

Pigeons on the pavement.

St.

Basil's Cathedral.

Red Square.

Kremlin buildings.

Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, traffic.

Kremlin Embankment.

Alexander Garden and Manezhnaya Square.

Pigeons on the square, the Trinity Gate of the Kremlin is visible.

Dzerzhinsky Street (Bolshaya Lubyanka).

Sretensky Gate.

Sretenka, the building of the Uranus cinema.

Pervaya Meshchanskaya Street.

Yaroslavskoye Highway.

Kirovskie (Myasnitskie) Gate.

Orlikov Lane.

Komsomolskaya Square.

Street in the Izmailovo district.

Avtozavodskaya Street.

Trolleybus and tram passing.

Construction cranes.

Taganskaya Square.

Entuziastov Highway.

Krasnaya Presnya and Barrikadnaya Street area.

Savings bank, passers-by.

Embankment.

Trolleybus and "Bread" van passing.

Pavement, shadows, traffic and passers-by.

Sign on the building "Here was the Red Guard Headquarters in October 1917".

Construction of the Novoarbatsky Bridge.

Assembly and welding of structures, laying slabs at the base of the bridge.

A female crane operator at work.

Early morning: a barge floating on the Moskva River is washing the embankment with a hose.

A street sprinkler drives along a deserted Gorky Street (Tverskaya) near Pushkinskaya Square.

Workers are applying road markings (pedestrian crossing) in Teatralny Proyezd.

A "B" trolleybus drives along Kirov Street (Myasnitskaya).

Propaganda posters in the windows on Gorky Street, people near the posters.

The "Mosgorspravka" notice board: advertisements for workers of various specialties (job vacancies).

Advertisements for book subscriptions in the window of a bookstore.

A queue at a bookstore.

Book kiosks and stalls on the streets.

Okhotny Ryad.

An artist with an easel on the corner of Okhotny Ryad and Sverdlov Square (Teatralnaya).

A group of people are watching the artist at work.

Knife sharpener on the street of Moscow.

Janitor G.S.Chinyaev leaves the yard and walks along Neglinnaya Street, along Kuznetsky Most, picking up trash along the way.

Passersby on the street.

Janitor talks to a policeman on duty.

Traffic and pedestrians on Neglinnaya Street.

An announcement on a fence: "Book marking schedule for the Moskvich queue." People at the announcements.

A long queue at the tables where people mark those standing in line to receive their cars.

Moskvich cars of different colors, intended for issue.

A bird market, rows of birds and fish, buyers and sellers at the market.

Trinity Church, built in 1703, on Lenin Hills.

Women with flowers and birch branches enter the church on Trinity Day.

The Forum and Metropol movie theaters, people in line at the box office.

Movie posters.

Moscow boulevards and squares.

An elderly couple is sitting on a bench.

People in a square.

A fountain in the square.

People are riding boats.

Flowers for sale on the streets of Moscow.

Flower sellers.

High school graduates on Red Square.

Monument to the founder of Moscow, Yuri Dolgoruky.

Monument to the first printer Ivan Fedorov.

The house on Suvorovsky Boulevard where N.V. Gogol lived from 1848 to 1852. The building where the F.M. Dostoevsky Museum-Apartment is located (on Dostoevsky Street).

The L.N. Tolstoy House-Museum on L. Tolstoy Street.

Monument to P.I. Tchaikovsky in front of the Moscow Conservatory.

Monument to A.M. Gorky.

Monument to V. Mayakovsky in the courtyard of the Mayakovsky House-Museum.

The building of the school where Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya studied.

Children leaving school.

The apple tree planted by Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

Monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya near the village of Petrishchevo.

Monument to the Panfilov Guardsmen near the Dubosekovo siding.

Issuance of new pension books to pensioners at the housing office of building No. 2 on Kooperativnaya Street.

The building of the Museum of the Revolution.

The museum hall dedicated to the 1905 revolution, portraits of the participants in the revolutionary events.

Sculptural busts of V.A.Gorshkov, T.I.Starikova, G.I.Okulova-Teadorovich, N.N.Baransky, N.E.Vavilov, S.M.Maksimov.

The monument-obelisk to the heroes of the December uprising of 1905 in the park on Trekhgorny Val.

Participants of the December uprising V.A.Gorshkov and N.T.Merkulov walk along the path, stop, talk, walk through the yard of the Trekhgornaya Manufactory plant, they are surrounded by young workers. N.N.Baransky (a participant in the 1905 revolution) walks by, enters one of the lecture halls of Moscow State University, gives a lecture, talks with students. T.I.Starikova is sitting at a table on the veranda of a dacha in the old Bolshevik settlement of Kratovo, reading a book. G.I.Okulova-Teodorovich is collecting flowers in the garden, sorting flowers on the table.

Samples of dried flowers and bouquets of them (herbarium).

The house on Pushkinskaya Square where the sculptor S. T. Konenkov lives. S. Konenkov in the courtyard of the house: sitting with a newspaper on a bench, gets up and approaches the sunflowers growing near the house. S. Konenkov enters his studio, approaches a wooden sculpture, works.

Works in the studio. S. T. Konenkov's apartment.

The sculptor sorts out correspondence, plays with his granddaughter, talks with his students.

Writer F. Gladkov at home in his study: he goes to a bookshelf, takes a book and leafs through it. F. Gladkov is working at his desk.

The writer's wife comes in and brings him some papers.

Close-up of F. Gladkov.

Writer K. Paustovsky is sitting in a car.

Paustovsky is riding in a tram car on route "B" (where he worked as a tram driver in his youth), talking to the conductor, looking out the window.

Poet A. Markov comes out of his house on Kooperativnaya Street, sits in the garden, and works.

Variety artist L. Mirov is standing at the metro station.

Artist A. Novitsky is coming out of the metro with his children. L. Mirov and A. Novitsky are going into the zoo.

The children are riding in a carriage pulled by a pony.

Mirov and Novitsky are riding in another carriage.

The building of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

A meeting of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the issue of planning and construction of one of the districts of Moscow.

Head of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate Academician N.N. Semenov in the laboratory of the institute.

A group of medical workers are standing in the pre-operative room of the Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency Care.

The chief surgeon of the institute, Professor D.A. Aronov, Doctor Tarasov and others pass by.

Aronov washes his hands, enters the operating room, and operates on a patient.

Professor Aronov in the ward at the patient's bed.

The apartment of the artist V.N. Meshkov, his portrait.

The widow of the artist N.N. Meshkov is sitting at the table, showing a portrait of the writer Gilyarovsky, who visited Meshkov's apartment. N.N. Meshkova at the grave of V.N. Meshkov at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Construction of residential buildings in the southwest of Moscow.

Bricklayer P. Gushchin walks along the wall laying, supervises the work of mechanics delivering bricks to the construction site, works on the wall laying.

Bricklayer P.A. Kireyev at the construction site monitors the delivery of bricks, checks the quality of the laying, teaches bricklayers how to lay bricks correctly. P.A. Kireyev and P. Gushchin in a beer bar during their lunch break.

New buildings in the southwest of Moscow.

The dining room in P.A. Kireyev's apartment - Kireyev's wife and daughter are setting the table for dinner.

Former French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment at the memorial plaque to the Normandie pilots on Gorky Street (Tverskaya).

American engineer Morgan (he was a consultant during the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro) is driving along Gorky Street in an open car.

A car with French journalists Jean Pierre and Dominique is driving along Gorky Street, making a car tour from Paris to Moscow.

The car is on Red Square, the journalists are filming with a movie camera.

On the Lenin Hills there is a tent of a correspondent for a French provincial newspaper, Andre Orlon, who is making a round-the-world trip on foot and hitchhiking.

Orlon comes out of the tent, shaves, walks, playing the harmonica.

Orlon is taking pictures on Sverdlov Square (Teatralnaya), talking to a girl.

Orlon at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VDNKh-VVC).

Honored Masters of Sports S. and V. Muratov with their son are walking through the park.

The Muratovs are practicing on the parallel bars at the sports ground.

Circus artist clown Mikhail Rumyantsev (Karandash) is in the dressing room: putting on make-up, talking to a dog and a donkey.

Clown Karandash is in the circus arena during a rehearsal.

Elephant Tunchi from "Durov's Corner" is walking along the street and Commune Square, stopping at a stall with soda water.

The saleswoman pours water into a glass, the elephant drinks.

A memorial plaque with the names of French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment.

The pilot is filming the memorial plaque on camera.

Red Square in the morning.

The Kremlin wall from the side of Red Square and the building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The Kremlin wall with memorial plaques and the graves of Ya.M.Sverdlov, M.I.Kalinin, M.V.Frunze, F.E.Dzerzhinsky and others.

The grave of John Reed.

The study and bedroom in the apartment of V.I.Lenin in the Kremlin.

Scenes from the first act of Adam's ballet "Giselle" at the USSR Bolshoi Theatre with the participation of G. Ulanova and Yu.

Zhdanov.

D.F. Oistrakh and I. Oistrakh are walking along the street. G.S. Ulanova is walking along the bridge over the Moscow River.