Footage Reconstruction of Soviet cities after the war. (1946-1950)
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0:00:28Reconstruction of Soviet cities after the war (1946-1950)
Reel №1 Kyiv.
A trolleybus travels through the streets of Kyiv.
A view of the Khreshchatyk district.
Kyiv residents and volunteers clear the streets of debris.
A panorama of scaffolding.
A mason restores a destroyed tower.
A panorama of the bridge structure.
A train moves across the bridge.
A monument to Lenin.
Keywords
Great Patriotic War, construction
Shooting locations:
Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine
Chronicle Subjects:
Reel №2 Tsemesskaya Bay.
Destroyed Novorossiysk, sunken ships in the bay.
Cement plant repairs.
Keywords
Great Patriotic War, destruction
Shooting locations:
Krasnodar Krai
Chronicle Subjects:
Reel №3 Novorossiysk.
Panorama of the destroyed city.
Keywords
Great Patriotic War, destruction
Chronicle Subjects:
Reel №4 Dnepropetrovsk.
A sign in German for "Dnepropetrovsk." A ruined monument to Pushkin.
Keywords
Great Patriotic War, liberated city
Shooting locations:
Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine
Chronicle Subjects:
Reel №5 Dnepropetrovsk.
A large pile of books on the street.
The facade of a house is falling.
A pile of books near the university building.
Damaged trams on the tracks.
A damaged railway and bridge.
A stele with the symbol of Nazi Germany.
Keywords
Great Patriotic War, destruction, liberated city
Shooting locations:
Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine
Chronicle Subjects:
Reel №6 Kishinev.
A panorama of the remains of buildings in Chisinau.
Destroyed architectural monuments.
A meeting of the architectural commission. A. Shchusev chairs the meeting.
White stone is mined in the quarry for construction.
Stone carts and trucks transport the stones for processing.
Masons cut the stones and build walls.
Sculptors create architectural details from the stone.
Keywords
Great Patriotic War, liberated city, minerals, building material
Persons:
Alexey Shchusev - Soviet architect, academician of architecture, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Shooting locations:
Moldavian SSR, Moldova
Chronicle Subjects:
Reel №7 Komsomolskoye Lake.
People are digging across a large area.
Trucks are parked, banners are hung. L. I. Brezhnev walks through the construction site, explaining something to his companions.
A panoramic view of the construction site.
Keywords
people's construction, water, start of construction, revival
Persons:
Leonid Brezhnev - Soviet statesman and political figure, General Secretary of the CPSU (1966-1982)
Shooting locations:
Moldavian SSR, Moldova, Kishinev