The film tells about the coat of arms, flag, anthem and capital of the USSR.
Flight over Leningrad, view of the cruiser Aurora on the Neva.
The flag of the USSR Navy on the bow of the Aurora.
Ship's gun.
Fireworks in the night sky.
People on Red Square in the evening.
Fireworks in the sky above the Kremlin towers.
Illumination, image of the USSR coat of arms on the building.
Panorama of the brass band musicians.
Faces of adults and children during the fireworks.
Illumination: "USSR" on the buildings of Novy Arbat.
Fireworks over the Spasskaya Tower.
View of the Mausoleum, line (from the top).
Panorama of the Spasskaya Tower, the clock says: 10-00. Newsreel 1918-1919: Post-revolutionary parade.
Lenin speaks on Red Square.
The red banner above the dome of the Kremlin building.
Newsreel 1926-1929: The first Soviet tractors leave the factory gates.
A tractor drives through a village.
The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman monument, driving over the hammer and sickle at the top of the sculpture.
Red flags on the Bolshoi Theater building.
Driving over the bas-relief image of the USSR coat of arms.
General view of Red Square during a demonstration.
The Lenin monument on the territory of the Kremlin.
A panorama of Moscow from above: the Moskva River, a bridge, the Rossiya Hotel.
The book "The Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics".
The film's presenter, actor Yuri Kayurov, talks about how Moscow became the capital against the backdrop of the Kremlin.
View of the Trinity Tower of the Kremlin.
The Manege building, people walking along the sidewalk.
Manezh Square, the National Hotel.
Driving through the Trinity Gate into the Kremlin.
Newsreel of 1918: View of the Kremlin, Moscow streets, pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages.
Lenin and Bonch-Bruyevich.
The train approaches the station platform.
Arrival of foreign diplomats, the first ambassadors.
Foreign diplomats in the Kremlin.
Moscow streets, pedestrians.
View from above of Theatre Square and the Bolshoi Theatre, zooming into the colonnade.
Newsreel from 1922: View of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Delegates of the First Congress of Soviets.
Izvestia newspaper with an article about the formation of the USSR. Building on the territory of the Kremlin, memorial plaque in honor of Lenin.
Lenin Museum in the Kremlin.
Excerpt from a feature film about Lenin (his conversation with Herbert Wells about electrification).
Interviews with citizens of the FRG about the USSR.
Lenin (Ulyanov V.I.) - Soviet political and statesman Kayurov Yu.I. - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor
People's Artist of the RSFSR Bonch-Bruevich V.D. - revolutionary
Bolshevik
Soviet party and government figure
1918-1919 1926-1929 1922
Leningrad Moscow Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)
Interviews with residents of Brazil, Italy, Sweden about the USSR. Interview with a Vietnamese about the USSR. Flying over a river, forest.
A space station flies against the backdrop of the Earth.
Cape Taran (the westernmost point of the USSR), lighthouse.
Cape Dezhnev (the easternmost point of the country), trees in the snow, the rising sun.
A boy, a resident of the Far East, walks on snow-covered land.
Ice floes float in the ocean, a polar bear on an ice floe.
A blossoming tree, a panorama of the garden.
A reservoir, a flock of swans.
Mountains in the snow.
Waterfall.
Rocks.
A kayak floats down the river.
People of different nationalities on the streets of Soviet cities.
Representatives of different nationalities and union republics: A girl at a desk.
A woman working at a table.
A man pruning grape vines.
Cotton harvesting.
A woman weaving a carpet.
A girl drawing.
Men in national costumes on camels.
A dam on a reservoir (from an airplane).
A hydrofoil sails along the river.
The Karakum Canal (above).
The Raketa motor ships on the canal.
The Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant in Chukotka: exterior, generator hall, automated control panel.
A bookstore, customers.
Writer Yuri Rytkheu talks to readers in a bookstore, gives autographs.
A political map of the world hangs on the wall.
A red banner with a hammer and sickle flutters.
Banners of different years in the museum.
A monument to victorious soldiers.
A field of red poppies.
Newsreel of pre-revolutionary Russia: Poor village houses, a family doing housework.
A peasant brings fodder to a horse.
The film "The Peasant Revolt of 1861".
A fragment of a feature film about the Paris Commune.
Newsreel from 1927: Pierre Degeyter, the author of the music for the anthem "The Internationale", in Moscow.
The conductor and a choir of women perform "The Internationale".
Newsreel 1917-1920: Lenin speaks at a rally.
Yakov Sverdlov speaks at a rally.
A truck with armed sailors drives down the street.
The First Cavalry Army attacks the enemy.
Newsreel 1941-1945: A commander kisses the banner, speaks in front of a line of soldiers.
Footage of WWII soldiers holding banners.
A soldier knocks down a sign with a German inscription.
Residents of a liberated city watch the flag being raised.
The banner being raised on the Reichstag.
Rytkheu Yu.S. -- Soviet
Russian and Chukchi writer Degeyter P. -- Belgian composer Lenin (Ulyanov V.I.) -- Soviet political and statesman Sverdlov Ya.M. -- Russian political and statesman
revolutionary
Bolshevik
1910-1917 1927 1917-1920 1941-1945
Brazil Italy Sweden Vietnam In space Turkmenistan Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Berlin
The film's presenter talks to Meliton Kantaria in the museum near the model of the Reichstag.
The Victory Banner is an exhibit of the USSR Armed Forces Museum.
Map of the country's northern regions.
Newsreel from 1929-1932: Expedition to develop northern lands, dogs pulling sleds with baggage.
Members of the expedition (geographer Ushakov, geologist Urvantsev, radio operator Khoder, hunter Zhuravlev).
Books by N.N. Urvantsev.
Interview with Urvantsev about wintering in northern latitudes (synchronously).
Photos of the expedition.
Newsreel from 1929-1932: Raising the flag on the mast.
Newsreel from 1937-1938: I.D. Papanin with his comrades during the polar expedition.
Newsreel from 1977: Nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika at the North Pole.
Raising the red flag.
Round dance around the mast with the flag.
Brass band playing, celebration of the opening of railway traffic. L.I. Brezhnev attaches an order to the banner, applause.
Red flag on the ship's mast.
Stormy sea.
French yachtsmen on a ship named Spasiba.
Meeting of yachtsmen with crew members of the ship Chernyakhovsk.
Awarding of Soviet sailors for rescuing French yachtsmen.
French and Soviet sailors at the table.
Farewell of French sailors to ours, hugs, photography.
Flight over fields, rivers, cities.
Monument on Kulikovo Field.
Sun behind the clouds.
Panorama of the painting: Battle of Borodino.
Monument to Kutuzov in front of the Borodino Panorama building in Moscow.
View of Smolny in Leningrad.
Leo Tolstoy's estate Yasnaya Polyana, the writer's grave.
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square.
Landscape: a pond, greenery around.
From above: a panorama of the city.
Pilot in the helicopter cockpit.
View of the ground from a helicopter: fields.
Memorial complex on Mamayev Kurgan.
Uzbek Kh.
Samatov.
Bowls are laid out on a patterned blanket.
A woman takes flatbreads out of the oven.
Tea is poured into a bowl (close-up).
Kh.
Samatov's large family is sitting at the table outdoors.
Samatov's children are of different nationalities: Uzbek, Tatar, Russian.
Samatov's wife, children, grandchildren.
View of Moscow from above.
A red flag over the dome of the Kremlin building.
Kremlin temples, Ivan the Great Bell Tower.
Newsreel 1935-1937: construction in Moscow.
Raising a star on the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.
Construction of houses on Gorky Street.
A bricklayer lays a brick wall.
Newsreel from 1931: playwright George Bernard Shaw arrives in Moscow, meeting him at the train station.
Urvantsev N.N. - Arctic explorer
Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Papanin I.D. -- Soviet Arctic explorer
Doctor of Geographical Sciences
Rear Admiral
twice Hero of the Soviet Union Brezhnev L.I. -- General Secretary of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU Shaw D.B. -- Irish playwright
writer
Nobel Prize laureate in literature.
1929-1932 1937-1938 1977 1935-1937 1931
Moscow Arctic Leningrad Volgograd
Newsreel from 1935: writer Romain Rolland in Moscow.
Newsreel from 1930: arrival of Rabindranath Tagore.
Newsreel from 1927: writer Henri Barbusse in the USSR. Newsreel from 1955: playwright B. Brecht is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
Newsreel from 1951: arrival of F. Joliot-Curie in Moscow, gets off the train car, greets those meeting him.
Newsreel from different years: foreign political figures (Ernst Thälmann, Dolores Ibárruri, Georgi Dimitrov) in Moscow.
Newsreel from 1933-1935: construction of the first line of the Moscow metro, miners working with jackhammers.
Finishing work at a metro station under construction.
Newsreel from 1941: anti-tank hedgehogs on a city street.
Red Square.
Two soldiers walk past the Bolshoi Theatre.
Volunteers are signed up for the front, weapons and grenades are issued.
A parade in honor of the holiday on November 7, columns of soldiers walk along the snow-covered Red Square.
Trucks with soldiers in the back on a Moscow street.
A column of tanks walks along the street.
Interview with Sergei Mikhalkov (synchronously) about the history of the creation of the Anthem of the Soviet Union.
Photo by G. El-Registan.
Photo of composer A. Alexandrov in military uniform.
Newsreel from 1944: Moscow at night, searchlights, a cannon raises its barrel, airships in the sky.
Demonstration on Red Square.
Hotel "Russia", view of the Kremlin, Red Square during the demonstration.
Workers are walking, carrying banners and flags.
View of the Kremlin from across the Moskva River, along which a motor ship is sailing.
The coat of arms is being stamped on the sealing wax.
A monument to Lenin near the building of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU. The presenter in the library tells (synchronously) the history of the creation of the coat of arms of the USSR. The folder contains texts of documents from 1918. The building of the printing house.
A photograph of the artist who was commissioned to draw the coat of arms.
The former coat of arms of Russia, elements symbolizing tsarist power.
Pre-revolutionary newsreel: Tsar Nicholas II with his retinue passing through the Kremlin.
Examples of foreign coats of arms: German (from the time of the Kaiser and the Third Reich), USA. The coat of arms of Russia during the period of the Provisional Government.
Cartoon: stages of creating the drawing of the Soviet coat of arms.
Newsreel of 1918: soldiers with weapons on the street, an armored car.
A train is moving, soldiers on the roof of the cars.
Intervention: the landing of American troops in the Far East.
Soldiers from different countries are marching.
Foreign armored cars, tanks, vehicles, and cavalry are driving.
A photo of Lenin.
Documents from 1918 with Lenin's notes and a resolution on the design of the coat of arms.
Rolland R. -- French writer
public figure
Nobel Prize laureate in literature. Tagore R. -- Indian writer
poet
composer
artist
Nobel Prize laureate in literature. Brecht B. -- German playwright
theatrical figure. Joliot-Curie F. -- French physicist and public figure
Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry E. Thalmann -- German politician and revolutionary
leader of the Communist Party of Germany. Ibarruri D.G. -- figure in the Spanish and international communist movement. Dimitrov G.M. -- figure in the Bulgarian and international communist movement. Mikhalkov S.V. -- Soviet poet
playwright.
1935 1930 1927 1955 1951 1933-1935 1941 1944 1918
Newsreel of 1918: The Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, delegates with a banner.
Yakov Sverdlov among the participants of the congress.
The guard checks the mandates of those going to the meeting.
Photo: Lenin walking along the sidewalk.
Lenin's letter is on the table.
An imprint of the first Soviet heraldic seal.
Coat of arms variants.
Coat of arms on the building of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Sign: "Main Directorate for the Production of State Signs (GOZNAK)".
Sketches for the coat of arms of the USSR. Interview (synchronously) with I.I. Dubasov about his creation of the coat of arms of the USSR. Drawings of preliminary versions.
Image of the Coat of Arms of the USSR in its final form.
View of the Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin.
Monument to Lenin in the Kremlin.
View of the Spasskaya Tower from the Kremlin.
Newsreel of the first five-year plans: construction of Magnitka, metallurgical plant, steel rolling.
Production of the first tractor.
Tractor plowing in the field.
A woman driving a tractor.
The automated control room of the nuclear power plant.
Synchrophasotron: general view.
Parking lot for tractors.
Production of various types: assembly of tractors, turbines.
The monument "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman".
The Moscow City Council building on Gorky Street, running over the USSR coat of arms.
Presentation of passports to young people, the passport has the image of the country's coat of arms.
Border post with the USSR coat of arms.
A plate with the coat of arms that was delivered to the Moon.
Launch of a space rocket.
Newsreel from 1980: the USSR coat of arms on the stands of the Luzhniki stadium during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Flight over Moscow in the Kremlin area.
General view of the hall where the CPSU Congress is taking place.
A meeting of the Supreme Council, everyone is applauding.
In the foyer, people are taking newspapers from the tables.
Assembly of trucks on a conveyor.
Scientists meet and talk (academicians A. Alexandrov, A. Prokhorov, N. Semenov, N. Basov and others), the building of the USSR Academy of Sciences on Leninsky Prospekt.
View of Manezhnaya Square and the Hotel "Moscow".
A panorama of the Kremlin.
A panorama of foreign flags.
Pianist Van Cliburn speaks (synchronously) in Russian about his love for our country.
Poster for the 7th International Tchaikovsky Competition Van Cliburn plays the melody of the song "Farewell, Beloved City".
The building of the Moscow Conservatory.
Monument to P. Tchaikovsky.
Driving along Gorky Street past the monument to Pushkin.
Newsreel from 1934: a sign about the First Congress of Soviet Writers.
Maxim Gorky meets a man on the street, they walk together.
Monument to M. Gorky in Moscow.
Newsreel from 1930: Vladimir Mayakovsky speaking.
Monument to V. Mayakovsky.
Newsreel 1925: Sergei Yesenin.
Monument to S. Yesenin Newsreel: Ilya Repin sitting at the table.
Monument to I. Repin Newsreel: Felix Dzerzhinsky speaking.
Monument to F. Dzerzhinsky.
Newsreel: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky at his desk.
Monument to K. Tsiolkovsky and stele to the conquerors of space.
State symbols
Sverdlov Ya.M. - Russian political and state figure
revolutionary
Bolshevik. Alexandrov A.P. -- Soviet physicist
academician
President of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Three times Hero of Socialist Labor. Prokhorov A.M. -- Soviet scientist
Nobel Prize laureate in physics. Basov N.G. -- Soviet scientist
Nobel Prize laureate in physics. Semenov N.N. -- Soviet scientist
Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry. Cliburn W. -- American pianist
the first winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Gorky A.M. -- Russian
Soviet writer. Mayakovsky V.V. -- Soviet poet. Yesenin S.A. -- Soviet poet. Repin I.E. -- Russian artist. Dzerzhinsky F.E. -- revolutionary
Soviet statesman
founder of the Cheka. Tsiolkovsky K.E. -- Russian and Soviet scientist
the founder of theoretical cosmonautics.
1928-1932 1934 1930
Moscow
View of Moscow from above.
People walking in the park.
Pedestrians on the street.
Muscovites on the streets of the city.
Fountain in the park.
View of Gorky Street from Manezhnaya Square.
Hotel "National", pedestrians.
Conversation of the host with the Chukchi writer Yuri Rytkheu about love for the Motherland.
Panorama of the People's Republic of China from above along the river.
View of the Dnieper and the monument to Bohdan Khmelnitsky in Kyiv.
Square in Minsk, transport going in a circle.
Architectural structures of various cities of the country: buildings, monuments, squares.
Pedestrians buying flowers.
Newlyweds walking along the street.
Industrial enterprise.
Happy face of a worker.
Hot shop: metal is being smelted.
Steelmaker at work.
Faces of workers of various specialties.
The nuclear-powered icebreaker "Arktika" is moving in the ice.
Waves of the stormy sea.
A trawl with fish dumps the catch onto the deck of the vessel.
A combine harvester in the field is harvesting.
Machine cotton harvesting.
View of Novy Arbat, the building of the Government of the RSFSR. The Kremlin from the air (helicopter photography).
Patriotism
Rytkheu Yu.S. -- Soviet
Russian and Chukchi writer.
Moscow Kyiv Minsk