Automobile - the second century (1987)

Panorama of the city transport interchange at the entrance to Moscow (top).

Views of Moscow squares and avenues with cars moving along them (top).

A car park at the Belorussky Railway Station square.

Passengers put suitcases in the trunk of a taxi.

A family gets into a car.

Game footage: an old car drives down the street, children run after it.

Newsreel from the 1920s: car traffic on the streets of Moscow.

An AMO truck leaves the garage.

The first Soviet AMO trucks on Red Square in 1924-1925. Limousines at the parade of retro cars.

The process of assembling a truck at the Likhachev Plant (fast motion).

ZIL truck chassis drive out of the workshop gates.

A truck at the proving ground during testing.

Loading cars onto a ship.

Automobile transport on the streets of the city.

The red traffic light is on.

A truck driver looks out of the cab.

Cars are stuck in a traffic jam.

A truck with its hood up is standing in the middle of the road, the driver is fixing the problem.

A driver and a passenger are pushing a taxi with a stalled engine.

A taxi driver is changing a tire on the side of the road, the passenger is looking at his watch.

Passengers are standing near a broken down bus.

People in the street are examining cars smashed in an accident.

Loading a smashed car into the back of a truck.

Traffic police patrol cars are driving out on their routes.

The traffic police emblem on the facade of a building, cars on a Moscow street.

A traffic inspector is checking the driver’s documents.

A traffic inspector is looking under the hood of a car.

The driver is signing a report.

Carrying out a technical inspection of cars at a traffic police technical diagnostics post.

View of a glass traffic controller’s booth at one of the intersections.

Traffic lights at intersections and pedestrian crossings.

Traffic police officers monitor compliance with the speed limit on city streets using special equipment.

One of the radars installed above the highway.

Sections of road traffic on the monitors of the citywide Start system.

The officer on duty at the State Traffic Inspectorate answers the phone, gives the address.

Sections of the roadway on the screens of the Start system monitors, an interactive map of Moscow.

Cars are stuck in a traffic jam.

Hands of drivers honking.

Panorama of a traffic jam on one of the streets of Moscow (above).

A meeting of the Round Table dedicated to the problem of traffic jams in Moscow.

A representative of the State Traffic Inspectorate Pankov speaks about the relevance of traffic safety issues in Moscow (synchronously).

The participants of the Round Table speak about the connection between safety and the intensity of city traffic, about the features of the Moscow transport system (synchronously).

Automobile traffic on the streets of Moscow.

A traffic controller in a booth, cars begin to move through an intersection.

Cars drive over potholes in the asphalt.

A representative of the road services Semenov speaks about the features of Moscow roads, the communications laid under them, about the work on putting the road surface in order, about the reasons for the poor technical condition of the roads (synchronously).

Automobile transport drives across tram tracks.

Automobiles drive over manhole covers.

A driver behind the wheel of a car.

A roadworks site fenced off with barriers.

A truck brakes sharply in front of one of the barriers.

Automobiles drive around the roadworks site.

Manual road surface repair.

Asphalt paving using special equipment and rollers.

Applying road markings.

Piles of asphalt dumped on a wet road.

Asphalt paving in winter with violation of technology.

Snow removal equipment on city streets.

A bus stop covered in snow, a passenger who got off is climbing through snowdrifts.

Head of the Main Administration of the President of the Russian Federation Lapin speaks at the Round Table about the peculiarities of Moscow in organizing traffic safety and the problems that arise (synchronously).

Automobile traffic on the streets of Moscow, types of overpasses and interchanges.

Panorama of the interchange at the entrance to Moscow (above).

View of a section of the Moscow Ring Road consisting of two lanes (above).

Types of multi-lane highways in the Baltic republics.

A driver behind the wheel of a car.

Entrance to an underground pedestrian crossing.

View of a road junction in the Baltics (above).

Automobile traffic on the streets of Moscow.

Drivers on the streets of the city talk about ways to solve urban traffic problems, mutual respect between drivers and pedestrians, discipline of road users, the need to increase the number of gas stations and expand the trade in spare parts (synchronously).

Cosmonaut G. Grechko speaks about the need to manufacture high-quality and inexpensive cars (synchronously).

Exhaust gases from cars on the street.

Automobile traffic on one of the sections of the Leningradskoye Shosse.

A traffic police officer checks a truck engine for harmful exhaust gases using special equipment.

A traffic police officer stops a car that has just undergone maintenance for inspection at a mobile diagnostic center.

Carrying out diagnostics of exhaust gases.

The indicator shows high toxicity of the exhaust.

A traffic police officer checks the driver of a minibus with regional license plates and asks questions.

A sign of the Moscow wholesale base for trade in industrial goods.

Checking the documents of truck drivers delivering goods to the center of Moscow, the inspector asks the driver questions about the route, purpose of the trip and the nature of the cargo (synchronously).

A truck in the backyard during unloading.

Trucks on the streets of Moscow.

A traffic police inspector checks the documents of a bus driver traveling to Moscow from the region and asks questions about the route of the trip (synchronously).

A traffic police inspector asks questions to drivers traveling to Moscow from other regions (synchronously).

Ducks in a pond by the side of the highway.

A traffic police officer talks to drivers about dirty cars.

Children play ball on a meadow on the river bank, a driver washes a car from the river.

Rainbow oil stains on the surface of the water.

An automatic car wash in one of Moscow's taxi depots.

Personal service cars at the entrance to an institution.

Drivers answer questions from a traffic police officer about their work in personal service cars, talk about long periods of downtime (synchronously).

Cars at the entrance to a government institution.

Car traffic on the streets of Moscow.

Round table participant, Honored Doctor of the RSFSR G.S. Livshiits speaks about the problems of driver's commissions and medical care for drivers, about the need to create automotive medicine (synchronously).

People applying for a license undergo a driver's medical commission.

A man at an ophthalmologist's appointment.

The doctor makes notes in the card.

Drivers undergo a medical examination.

The doctor makes notes in the card.

People stand in line to pass the driver's commission.

The doctor puts stamps and seals on the driver's personal card.

Medical examination of civil aviation pilots using diagnostic equipment.

Doctors record and process the obtained data.

Pilots in the cockpit.

City transport on the streets of Moscow.

Representative of Glavmosgortrans A.M. Ulyanov speaks about the peculiarities and difficult working conditions of city passenger transport drivers, the city's unpreparedness for an increase in rolling stock, and the problem of training drivers (synchronously).

Buses on the streets of Moscow, boarding and disembarking passengers at bus stops.

Drivers climb out of the bus cabins.

The side of a bus punctured as a result of a collision with a tanker truck.

Advertisement inviting bus drivers and auto mechanics to work.

Theoretical and practical classes at a driving school.

Future bus drivers board a bus before a practical driving lesson.

Practical classes on the training ground.

Taking an exam on traffic rules.

Drivers who fail the exam leave the classroom.

A female driver takes an exam on traffic rules.

Taking a driving exam.

Bus and truck drivers violate traffic rules.

Bus passengers grab the handrails during sudden braking.

A traffic jam on one of the city streets as a result of a traffic accident.

Broken cars in the traffic police impound lot.

Representative of the Ministry of Automobile Transport of the RSFSR V.N. Ivanov talks about ways to reduce the accident rate on roads, improve transport culture, and the need for mutual respect between drivers and pedestrians (synchronously).

The driver of a broken-down car "votes" on the side of the road.

Pedestrians are trying to cross the road.

View of an intersection (top), drivers turning right do not yield to pedestrians at the crossing.

The green lights are on.

Drivers do not give way to pedestrians, breaking the rules.

People run across the roadway in the wrong places, a traffic police inspector detains a pedestrian violator.

Passengers boarding and disembarking a bus.

The bus approaches a bus stop.

View of a section of the Moskva River in the city center, car traffic along the embankments (top).

View of a section of Gorky Street (top), car and pedestrian traffic.

Cars on one of the city streets.

The traffic police inspector on duty picks up the phone.

Sections of the roadway on the screens of the Start system monitors.

View of a section of the Garden Ring (top).

Cars are driving by.

Traffic inspector with radar in hand.

Car traffic on Moscow streets, types of traffic interchanges (above).