Moscow is the capital of the USSR (1947)

Constitution of the USSR. Pages of the Constitution.

Article 145. Views of the Moscow Kremlin.

The Red Arrow train travels along the railway.

The wind flutters the curtains on the windows.

Alternation: views from the train windows, passengers' faces.

At the head of the train is the Stalin steam locomotive (IS20-317).

Alternation: an airplane in the sky, passengers in the cabin.

Freight trains on the country's railways.

Views of Moscow from an airplane.

Air traffic controller.

An airplane lands at the airport.

Passengers descend the steps.

Passengers disembarking from trains at railway stations.

Moscow's railway station squares (view from above).

Movement of transport and passenger flows on the streets of the capital.

House of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Hotel "Moscow".

Traffic along Gorky Street (now Tverskaya).

Chronicle of the early 20th century: A cabby on the edge of the sidewalk.

A tavern.

A cabby in an alley.

People crossing the street, a carriage passing along the tram tracks.

Okhotny Ryad, sellers and buyers.

Shopping arcade on Red Square.

Trade at the gates, horse-drawn carriages leaving the Kremlin.

Demolition of old buildings.

Participants in youth demonstrations marching along the streets.

Traffic, view of the Kremlin.

Battlements of the Kremlin wall.

View of St.

Basil's Cathedral.

Views of the Spasskaya Tower.

Entrance to the Kremlin gates (shot from a car).

Panorama of the Kremlin, view of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Flag on the roof of the palace.

Chronicle of 1918: V.I. Lenin and V.D. Bonch-Bruevich in the Kremlin. V.I. Lenin's study in the museum. V.I. Lenin's desk. V.I. Lenin's Mausoleum.

View of the mausoleum from under the arch.

Views of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

The Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the RSFSR. People fill the hall.

Alternation: welcoming applause of the meeting participants, I.V. Stalin on the rostrum.

Alternation: people's faces in the hall, I.V. Stalin, V.M. Molotov and other members of the Supreme Soviet on the rostrum.

General view of the hall.

Presentation of government awards.

Stairs of the palace.

St.

George's Hall.

View of the Kremlin, Ivan the Great Bell Tower.

View of the Moskva River from the bell tower.

Ivan the Great Bell Tower.

Faceted Chamber.

Tsar Bell.

Tsar Cannon.

View of the Spasskaya Tower from the wall.

Battlements on the walls.

View of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower from the tower.

View of St.

Basil's Cathedral from the tower.

View of the State Historical Museum from the tower.

Bells.

Dissolve: date against the background of bells.

Fragment of the painting "The Battle of Kulikovo" by A. Yvon.

Dissolve: the date against the background of bells.

Stills from the feature film "Minin and Pozharsky" (1939, directed by V.I.Pudovkin, M.I.Doller).

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky.

View of Red Square from the monument.

Dissolve: the date against the background of bells.

Stills from the feature film "Kutuzov" (1943, directed by V.M.Petrov), S.B.Mezhinsky as Napoleon Bonaparte.

French cannons at the walls of the arsenal.

Dissolve: the date against the background of the dome of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Chronicle of 1918: V.I.Lenin speaking to workers.

Armed detachments on the streets of Moscow.

Dissolve: the date against the background of clouds.

Chronicle of 1941: Mounted police patrol at the walls of the Kremlin.

People accompany balloons.

Construction of fortifications on the streets of the city.

Anti-tank obstacles.

Clouds in the sky.

Radars.

Anti-aircraft gun barrel rises, air raid siren sounds.

Balloon rises into the air above the monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Balloons in the sky.

View of the Kremlin.

People descend into the metro.

Explosion in the city.

Sleeping children.

Woman with child in her arms.

People sleep on the platform of Mayakovskaya metro station.

Searchlights.

Soldier gives signal.

Searchlights, anti-aircraft guns fire.

Workers in the shops of a metallurgical plant.

Anti-aircraft guns fire.

Duty officer on the roof of a house.

Guns fire.

Women producing shells.

Fragment of the Moscow Council meeting at Mayakovskaya metro station on November 6, 1941. People stand in rows on the platform.

Politicians come to the podium.

Alternation: the crowd greets the leader, members of the Politburo greet the audience. I.V. Stalin speaks at the podium.

People listening to a report.

View of the Kremlin.

Intercut with: parade of troops on Red Square on November 7, 1941, I.V. Stalin on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Troops on the streets of Moscow.

Intercut with: guns firing, explosions thundering.

A soldier delivers shells.

Airplanes in the sky.

View of the ground, flashes of explosions below.

Airplanes.

Combined attack of tanks and infantry.

Soviet aviation.

Intercut with: explosions, artillery fire.

Skiers in camouflage robes.

Tanks crush the barrier.

Corpses of German soldiers.

Wreckage of German military equipment.

Remnants of defeated enemy troops.

German prisoners passing through Moscow.

Chronicle of 1945: Soviet soldiers with German flags.

On the tribune of the mausoleum are V.M.Molotov, I.V.Stalin, S.M.Budyonny.

Soldiers carry and throw German flags to the foot of the mausoleum. I.V.Stalin and I.S.Budyonny.

People's jubilation.

Festive gunshots, searchlights and a fireworks display over the city on June 24. A woman with a newborn baby.

Continuation of the fireworks.

A woman pushes a child in a stroller.

A teacher helps a kindergarten group cross the road.

Traffic controller.

Traffic flow.

Traffic along Moscow avenues.

Panoramas of streets in the Kremlin area.

Embankment of the Moskva River.

View of the Kremlin, a motor ship passes under the bridge.

Crimean Bridge.

The camera passes under the bridge.

Views of Moscow bridges.

Double-decker trolleybus.

Traffic on the street (aerial view).

People on the streets of the capital.

A girl buys flowers near the metro.

View from the park onto the road.

Panoramas of the square.

Visitors to the summer cafe.

A girl buys flowers at a kiosk.

View across the road to the monument.

A girl throws a ball.

Monument to A.S. Pushkin.

View of the Kiev metro bridge.

Trains on the bridge (shot from the driver's cabin).

A train enters a tunnel.

View from above onto tram tracks.

Chronicle of 1932: Komsomol members at the construction of the Moscow metro. I.V. Stalin congratulates the builders.

Applause from the audience.

Applause from the Politburo.

Workers in the tunnels of the metro construction site.

The train arrives at Stalinskaya station (now Semyonovskaya).

People get off the platform.

People on the platform and on the descent into the passage at Ploshchad Revolyutsii station.

Movement on escalators.

The station attendant gives the signal to depart.

A female engineer.

The train departs.

Izmailovsky Park of Culture and Leisure named after Stalin (former Izmailovskaya and Izmailovsky Park, now Partizanskaya) station, people are going down the stairs, a train comes out of the tunnel.

The train stops, passengers are disembarking.

Airplanes are flying over the city.

Motor ships at the pier.

Cargo barge, port cranes.

Moscow-Volga Canal (now the Moscow Canal).

Monument to V.I. Lenin.

Movement along the canal (shot from on board the motor ship).

The motor ship enters the canal from the lock system.

Monument to I.V. Stalin.

Stalinskaya (now Vostochnaya) water supply station.

Turbine hall.

Dispatchers at the control panels.

Gas distribution station.

Machine room.

Workers check the readings of the devices.

Panorama of the industrial part of the city.

New buildings on the site of Dangauerovskaya Sloboda (now part of the Lefortovo district).

Chronicle of the early 20th century: Dangauerovskaya Sloboda, the former appearance of the area, dilapidated wooden houses.

House with props.

The cabby gets into the carriage, takes off his hat and crosses himself.

New streets of Moscow.

A woman with a child on the balcony.

People walk past the houses, a car drives by.

Krasnopresnensky district.

New district on Khoroshevskoye Highway.

A bulldozer rakes the earth.

Construction of a new house, bricks are raised on a conveyor.

Workers put bricks on the conveyor.

Information boards on the wall of the house. F.D.Shavlyugin's team is working on the construction. F.D.Shavlyugin.

House under construction.

Traffic along the avenue.

Construction work in the city.

A welder works in a window opening.

House under construction by the road.

View of the avenue, on the left is the building of the Moscow Council of Workers' Deputies.

Fountain in front of the building.

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council is underway.

The meeting is chaired by the Chairman of the Executive Committee G.M.Popov.

Faces of the meeting participants. D.N.Chechulin reports on plans.

Meeting participants.

Drawings.

Models.

Assembly of trucks on the main conveyor of the I.V. Stalin Plant.

Assembly of ZIS-110 passenger cars.

Mechanic at the wheel.

A new car leaves the workshop.

A car is being washed.

The factory parking lot for new cars.

Factory emblems on Moskvichs.

Cars on the avenue.

A Moskvich stops in the parking lot.

Panoramas of the new industrial district, the former Sukino Bolot (now Pechatniki and Tekstilshchiki).

Workers in the workshops of the bearing plant (GPZ-1).

Automatic lines for the production of parts.

Workers assembling bearings.

Machine tool production on the automatic line of the Ordzhonikidze plant.

People walk down the street, sit down on a bench in the yard.

Veteran workers of the Vladimir Ilyich Moscow Electromechanical Plant.

The Kalachev family.

Electric motor shop, motor on a suspension.

The Kalachevs assemble the motor.

The motor is lowered to the floor under the control of a worker.

Workers of the Paris Commune shoe factory.

Women work on the machines.

Foreman V. Matrosov.

Members of the team.

The foreman talks to a woman at the machine.

The Kalibr plant, foreman N. Rossiysky.

Members of N. Rossiysky's team at the machines.

Trekhgornaya manufactory, weaving shop, weaver Z. Menshikova.

Weavers A. Shtyrova and N. Dubyaga. A. Shtyrova supervises the work of the machines.

View of Theatre Square.

Views from the roof of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Fountain in front of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism.

Monument to V.I. Lenin.

Interspersed: museum exhibits, visitors in the halls of the V.I. Lenin Museum.

A copy of the monument in the hall.

Children going to school.

Children climbing the stairs.

Students in class.

Children applauding at the ceremonial assembly.

Interspersed: presentation of medals for excellent studies, children's faces.

The old building of Lomonosov Moscow State University on Mokhovaya Street.

Monument to M.V. Lomonosov.

Monument to A.I. Herzen.

View from the university gates, a trolleybus passing along the road.

The doors to the lecture hall open.

Students greeting the teacher.

Classes are taught by N.S. Derzhavin.

Students' faces.

Bauman Institute, a chemistry experiment.

Students at their desks.

A teacher at the blackboard.

View of the lecture hall.

Scientific Institute of Organic Chemistry.

Specialists conduct experiments under the supervision of N.D. Zelinsky.

Experimental Design Bureau of A.S. Yakovlev. A.S. Yakovlev and S.V. Ilyushin talk in the office.

The Il-18 plane turns around on the airfield.

The plane takes off.

A car drives out of the gates of the Academy of Sciences.

Driveway to the building of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

View of the yard in front of the building. S.I. Vavilov speaking.

Faces of the audience.

General view of the hall.

Building of the Writers' Union.

Meeting of members of the USSR Writers' Union, A.A. Fadeyev and K.M. Simonov present.

Lenin Library.

Traffic in front of the metro station.

Shelves in the storage facility.

Pages of rare documents.

The librarian leafs through a book.

People work in the reading room.

A fresh issue of the Pravda newspaper comes off the press.

Printing shop, printing of periodicals.

Front entrance of Pravda publishing house.

Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky.

A student plays four hands with her teacher. V.I. Mukhina works on the monument to M. Gorky. S.D. Merkurov completes work on the monument to N.V. Gogol. S.M. Orlov makes a model of the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky.

Tretyakov Gallery.

Monument to I.V. Stalin in front of the entrance.

Alternation: visitors in the gallery halls, paintings.

Fountain for the 800th anniversary of Moscow.

People walking and relaxing in Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure.

People sailing on sports yachts.

An elderly man sitting under an umbrella from the sun.

A young man on a bench.

An elderly man, a girl playing with a ball.

A girl with a ball on the lane.

Small children.

Athletes rowing.

Adults and children riding park attractions.

The Moscow swimming pool, swimmers jumping into the water from the tower, spectators in the stands.

Swimmers releasing balloons into the sky.

Swimming competitions, motorboat racing.

Playing tennis.

Fragments of a football match at the Dynamo stadium.

Fans in the stands.

Palace of Culture of the I.V. Stalin Plant, view from the fence.

People climbing the steps.

People talking in the winter garden.

Veterans of the 1905 uprising talking with young workers.

Evening dances at the club.

View of Theatre Square.

The Bolshoi Theatre building.

Sculptural group on the pediment.

Boxes.

The curtain opens.

Polonaise by P.I. Tchaikovsky from the opera "Eugene Onegin".

View from the stage to the hall.

Sunset over the Kremlin.

Views of Moscow at dawn.

Shukhov Tower.

View of the Kremlin.

Soviet newspapers. I.V. Stalin on the podium.

Applause from the audience.

View of the podium.

View of the hall.

Speech by V.M. Molotov abroad.

Applause of conference participants.

Applause of people on Red Square. I.V. Stalin.

People greet the leader.

Parade of Soviet troops.

View of the square from under the arch.

Alternation: I.V. Stalin, participants of the demonstration.

View of the square from St.

Basil's Cathedral.

View of the square from the Spasskaya Tower.

Nikolskaya Tower.

View of the Historical Museum from above.

Monuments and the Spasskaya Tower.