Excerpts from the newsreel "News of the Day No. 39" (1959)

Footage №193217, 3 footages

Scene №1

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Soviet newspapers with articles about the launch of the second Soviet rocket.

Animated cartoon depicting the rocket's trajectory to the Moon.

People listen to a lecture about the Moon at the Moscow Planetarium.

Professor Dobronravov sits in a chair with a magazine in his hands.

Keywords

USSR, press, excursion

Shooting locations:

Moscow

Scene №2

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Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor Dobronravov talks about the second Soviet space rocket (synchronously).

Keywords

space age, interplanetary environment, study, guided missile

Shooting locations:

USSR

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Leningraders gathered on the Neva River embankment.

The nuclear-powered icebreaker "Lenin" is anchored in the Neva.

The icebreaker's interior: the wheelhouse, power plant, turbogenerators, cabins, and lounge.

Captain P. A. Ponomarev and the ship's chief architect, V. I. Chervyakov, are in their cabin.

Keywords

nuclear energy, ship, polar explorer, peaceful atom

Persons:

Pavel Ponomarev was a Soviet navigator and the first captain of the nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin.

Shooting locations:

Leningrad, USSR

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