About the construction of the Leningrad metro in the first post-war decade. Laying the first line from the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station to the Avtovo station. Tunnel boring, working mechanisms and inventions, laying rails, assembling escalators, decorating stations. Grand opening and the first train. Awarding of the builders in the Tauride Palace.
Leningrad – view from above – embankments, Palace Bridge.
Neva, Rostral Column, Stock Exchange building.
Road on the embankment, Neva.
Monument to Peter the Great.
Cars and buses drive along the street.
Traffic policeman.
Street, trolleybus and bus driving.
Entrance to the metro vestibule at Ploshchad Vosstaniya station.
Narva Triumphal Arch, people walking, flower bed.
Kr.pl. – entrance to the metro vestibule at Ploshchad Vosstaniya station.
Metro employees walking along Ploshchad Vosstaniya station.
View of Nevsky Prospekt and Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station from Moskovsky Railway Station.
Hand-drawn map of the first metro line.
Chronicle [1949-1954]: builders descend into a mine.
Tunnel.
A trolley is moving.
Builders crush soil with jackhammers, load soil into trolleys.
Machine for freezing soil.
The operator presses the levers.
Frozen pipes of the freezing installation.
Metro designers at the model of the mechanized tunnel boring machine.
Head of the Leningrad Metro Construction – Kuznetsov.
Kr.pl. – parts of the mechanized tunnel boring machine.
Metro builders at work.
Loading soil, monitoring the operation of the devices.
Hydraulic jack.
Installing the tubing ring.
Construction machine – tubing layer.
A specialist in geodetic surveys of mining operations takes measurements.
The mechanized tunnel boring machine drills in the tunnel.
The construction crews greet each other.
Volkov – the head of the Vladimirskaya station section.
Metro builders lay the rails.
Tunnel with rails.
Engineers near the train.
Depot with trains.
A worker assembles the mechanism.
Workers control the installation in the workshop using levers.
Assembling the escalator at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station.
Escalator parts are being fitted together.
Installer Nikolai Petrunin at work.
The escalator is moving.
Designer of the Krasny Metallist plant Shkolovsky Ya.E. and his colleagues are looking at a drawing.
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Sokolov, head of architectural and decorative design, is discussing sketches with a colleague.
Architect Aleksandr Kuzmich Andreev at work.
Builders are attaching a mesh to the ceiling in a metro station.
Construction of decorative elements of the station.
Workers are processing marble at the station.
Fragments of the decor of the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station.
Pushkinskaya station, a monument to A.S. Pushkin.
Architect Vasily Aleksandrovich Petrov and sculptor Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin are examining the monument and the architectural appearance of the station.
Narvskaya station.
Mosaic panel with Stalin.
High reliefs.
Awards, Engineer, Wagon, Scaffolding, Drawing table, Sketch
Kuznetsov is the head of the Leningrad metro construction.
Shkolovsky Ya.E. - designer.
Andreev A.K. - architect.
Petrov V.A. - architect.
Anikushin M.K. - sculptor.
1940s-1950s
Leningrad
Autumn
November 15, 1955 – opening day of the Leningrad Metro.
Vestibule of the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station – address plan.
Cars drive along Nevsky Prospekt, people walk along the sidewalks, people cross the road.
People enter the metro.
Vestibule of the Avtovo station.
People are standing on the steps near the metro.
Miner Ivan Mikhailovich Pastukhov and his family are gathering.
A queue to enter the metro.
People in the metro.
Greeting each other.
Miner Anatoly Vasilyevich Tarasov.
Installer Nikolai Ilyich Petrunin.
Plasterer Anna Yegorovna Ushakova.
People descend the escalator into the station.
Rally of metro builders.
First Secretary of the Regional Party Committee Frol Romanovich Kozlov makes a speech.
Rally participants applaud.
Speakers.
Kozlov F.R. cuts the red ribbon.
A metro employee hands over a ticket to the driver of the first train.
People board the carriages.
The station attendant sends the first train.
The train departs from the station.
The central power dispatch console of the metro.
Employees at work.
An employee is talking on the phone.
A metro station - filmed from a carriage window.
People are walking along the station.
Tekhnologichesky Institut station.
Decorative design.
Baltiyskaya station.
Passengers are moving up and down the escalators.
Evening.
Street.
Cars are driving along the road.
People are walking.
Kirovsky Zavod station.
Avtovo station.
People are looking at the glass columns.
Avtovo station lobby - filmed from the inside.
Passengers are buying tickets at the metro ticket office.
A ceremonial meeting in the Tavrichesky Palace dedicated to the awarding of metro builders.
The spectators are applauding.
In the presidium, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Voroshilov K.E., Kozlov F.R. Voroshilov K.E. presents the Order of Lenin to the head of Lenmetrostroy Kuznetsov K.A. Voroshilov K.E. speaks.
Leningrad – view from above – the Hermitage and Palace Square.
Traffic on Nevsky Prospect.
Monument to Lenin.
interior decoration of the station, metro launch, worker's room, family, children
Kozlov F.R. - first secretary of the regional party committee.
Voroshilov K.E. - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Leningrad
Autumn, Night