The film was created based on newsreel footage from the studio's collection from the period 1910–2000, and shows the history of Russia and the world during the most critical moments of the 20th century.




River landscapes, small sailing and rowing vessels on the river.
Sailing yachts sailing by.
Spectators in the cinema during a showing (staged scenes).
Newsreel: people on the street during a folk festival in 1913, faces of students, high school students, officers, officials, panorama of a part of the park.
A ceremonial horse-drawn carriage passes by, newsreel alternates with shots of spectators in the cinema.
Arrival of a train to Moscow at the Belorussky railway station in 1928. Lenin V.I. speaking at a rally on Teatralnaya Square during the unveiling of a temporary monument to Marx and Engels on November 7, 1918. The face of a car driver.
Passengers boarding an overcrowded tram in Moscow in the early 1930s.
A traffic controller at an intersection.
A tram departing from a stop.
Faces of people meeting Gorky at the railway station.
Gorky talking to the people meeting him from the carriage window.
Cars on the streets of Moscow in the early 1930s.
Delegates of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on their way to a meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace in February 1934. Delegates' IDs are checked at the entrance to the palace.
View of a movie theater auditorium during a show.
Hands of a pianist.
Faces of moviegoers.
Musicians on the wings of a flying airplane play jazz in the USA. A man is lifted from the roof of a train car on a cable tied to an airplane.
A cameraman is filming.
The face of a traffic policeman.
A motorcyclist with a passenger passes along the road.
ZiS-101 cars drive along the road.
Nicholas II rides a horse during a troop review in Tsarskoye Selo in 1913. Lenin during the military parade in honor of the second anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1919. View of part of the demonstration in Leningrad in the late 1970s.
A ceremonial procession in one of the cities of Russia during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov, military personnel, officials, and representatives of the clergy are passing by.
KGB officers prohibit photojournalists from filming the rally.
The leaders of the RCP(b) walk along Red Square during the May Day celebrations in 1925-1926. Gorky A.M. on the tribune of the mausoleum.
Checking the mandates of the delegates of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) at the entrance to the Grand Kremlin Palace.
Delegates are walking to the session of the congress.
Residents of Moscow go to the polling stations on the day of the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1946. Spectators in the cinema hall applaud.
Meetings at the train station, spectators are watching a movie.
A meeting of polar explorers in Moscow on March 17, 1938, Schmidt O.Yu. in the back seat of the car.
View of part of the ceremonial rally on Red Square in Moscow in honor of the first manned flight into space in April 1961. Gagarin Yu.A. greets the rally participants from the mausoleum tribune.
The back of a traffic controller at an intersection in Moscow in the early 1930s.
People are standing behind a metal lattice fence.
Stalin I.V. on the mausoleum tribune.
Hitler arrives at a Nazi party rally, Goering and the party leaders greet him.
Faces of Berlin residents greeting Hitler.
Stalin in 1935 walks past the mausoleum wall, shakes hands with the military.
People enter the mausoleum.
Dzerzhinsky's face in profile.
Panorama of part of the demonstration on Palace Square in Leningrad in the late 1970s.
First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU Romanov G.V. greets the demonstration participants.
Gorbachev greets the May Day demonstration participants from the mausoleum tribune.
Public festivities at VDNKh in the 1930s.
The artist removes his makeup and bows.
Nicholas II with his wife during a ceremonial procession on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin in 1913. Lenin V.I. at the Column Hall of the House of Unions after the end of the congress on extracurricular education on May 6, 1919. Gorbachev and his entourage walk along the territory of the Kremlin in the late 1980s.
Yeltsin B.N. walks to the entrance to the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, turns around, and greets the assembled people.
Checking the documents of the delegates of the 13th Congress of the RCP(b).
Faces of the participants of the rally in March-April 1917.
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich -- statesman and political figure Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich -- statesman and political figure Gorky (Peshkov) Alexey Maksimovich -- writer
playwright
public figure Otto Yulievich Schmidt - geographer
mathematician
polar explorer Gagarin Yuri Alekseevich -- pilot-cosmonaut Hitler Adolf -- German statesman and political figure Goering Hermann -- German statesman and political figure Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich -- statesman and political figure
head of state security agencies Romanov Grigory Vasilyevich -- statesman and political figure Nicholas II (Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich) -- Russian emperor Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich -- statesman and political figure Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich -- statesman and political figure
1913 1917 07.11.1918 06.05.1919 07.11.1919 1924-1926 1928 02.1934 1935 1970s 1980s 03.17.1938
Moscow Leningrad Petrograd Berlin
Spring Summer Autumn




Newsreel: monument to Kirov S.M., view of part of a city block (top).
Lenin V.I. speaks on Red Square during the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on May 25, 1919. Faces of participants in one of the demonstrations on Red Square in the early 1930s.
Parade of Italian Bersaglieri.
Kalinin M.I. speaks from the rostrum at a rally in front of the soldiers of the First Cavalry Army in 1920. Budyonny S.M. speaks from the rostrum, Voroshilov K.E. stands next to him.
Faces of military personnel speaking at rallies.
Gorbachev M.S., surrounded by a crowd, talks to people, answers questions (top).
Newspaper sales on the streets of Moscow in the 1920s, people buy newspapers from hawkers and at kiosks.
Tram movement.
One of the streets of Moscow.
The party organizer of one of the factories reads Stalin's report to the workers, faces of female workers.
Voting at party and election meetings in the 1930s.
Hitler speaks from the rostrum in the Reichstag in 1933. Fidel Castro speaks at a rally.
Mussolini speaks from the balcony of the Royal Palace in Rome.
View of part of a fascist rally.
Faces of members of the Hitler Youth during a parade.
Faces of SS and Wehrmacht soldiers.
The face of Felix Kohn speaking at a rally.
Antselovich N.M. speaks from the rostrum on Red Officer's Day in 1918. A speaker giving a speech at a rally.
Tukhachevsky M.N. speaks from the rostrum of the mausoleum.
Faces of participants in a rally of the national-patriotic movement "Memory" in the late 1980s.
Yeltsin B.N. talks to participants in one of the rallies.
Faces of workers participating in a rally in the 1930s.
A speaker delivering a speech.
Kaganovich L.M. delivering a speech from the rostrum.
Mayakovsky V.V. reads his poems.
Ordzhonikidze G.K. delivering a speech from the rostrum at the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Congress delegates delivering speeches.
Workers reading newspapers during a lunch break.
Red Army soldiers marching along Red Square.
Faces of spectators on the guest tribune of Red Square.
A military orchestra conductor in the early 1920s.
Participants in the event raising their arms and doing squats in sync.
Newspapers sold on the streets of Moscow.
Two men reading newspapers in the backseat of a car.
Churchill delivering a speech to voters.
A girl’s face.
Faces of Soviet tank crews.
Faces of participants in a military parade.
Egorov A.I. delivering a speech from the rostrum.
An artillery piece being installed on a Moscow street in 1918. People watching the May Day demonstration from the Kremlin Wall.
Gorky on the rostrum of the mausoleum in 1935. Brezhnev L.I. speaks from the rostrum in 1972, behind him in the presidium are Kosygin A.N., Podgorny N.V. Khrushchev N.S. speaks from the rostrum.
Gorbachev M.S. speaks from the rostrum, gesticulating.
Yeltsin B.N. speaks from the rostrum.
Faces of the participants in the rallies of the 1930s.
Panorama of the revolutionary rally in 1917, the orator is speaking.
Stalin I.V. speaks from the rostrum at the Bolshoi Theater on December 11, 1937. Putin V.V., Sobchak A.A., Yeltsin B.N. among the participants of the meeting (panorama).
Faces of the participants in the rallies of the 1920-1930s.
A Red Army soldier blindfolds his comrade.
Red Army soldiers practice chopping "blindly".
A Red Army soldier dances to the accordion.
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich - statesman and political figure Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny - military leader Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov - state
political and military figure Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich -- statesman and political figure Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich -- statesman and political figure Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich -- statesman and political figure Hitler Adolf -- German statesman and political figure Mussolini Benito -- Italian statesman and political figure Castro Ruz Fidel -- Cuban revolutionary
statesman and political figure Koe Felix Yakovlevich -- statesman and political figure Antselovich Naum Markovich -- statesman and trade union figure Tukhachevsky Mikhail Nikolaevich -- military leader Kaganovich Lazar Moiseevich -- statesman and political figure Ordzhonikidze Grigory Konstantinovich -- statesman and political figure Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich -- poet
playwright Egorov Aleksandr Ilyich -- military leader Churchill Winston Alfred Spencer -- British statesman and political figure Khrushchev Nikita Sergeevich -- statesman and political figure Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich -- statesman and political figure Kosygin Aleksey Nikolayevich -- statesman and political figure Podgorny Nikolay Viktorovich -- statesman and political figure Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich -- statesman and political figure Sobchak Anatoly Aleksandrovich -- statesman and political figure
1917 1918 05/25/1919 1920 1933 02/1934 1935 12/11/1937 1972 1970s 1990s
St. Petersburg Moscow Berlin Rome USSR
Spring Summer Autumn




Newsreel: a flying machine-makhalet tries to take off.
The launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. Faces of women on the street.
Faces of peasants participating in the rally.
The monument to Lenin on the square near the Finland Station.
A shot from the new gun of the cruiser Aurora (fragment of the feature film).
Soldiers welcome the February Revolution of 1917. Plowing and harrowing the land with a tank in the early 1920s.
Wheeled tractors on the platforms of a moving train.
Tracked tractors on railway platforms.
Harvesting grain on collective farms in the 1930s.
Winnowing grain with shovels by hand.
Harvesting cotton.
Fishermen on the Volga take the catch out of their nets.
Harvesting cotton and grapes.
Apple picking.
Cows eating hay from feeders.
Faces of collective farmers.
Gathering of bread convoys (top).
Orchestra playing in stadium stands, orchestra panorama.
Earthworks during construction of one of the industrial enterprises, transportation of soil in hand wheelbarrows.
Tamping earth in a pit.
Preparatory work at construction site.
Compacting concrete with feet.
View of part of the earthworks.
Miners manually chipping away coal in a coal face.
Miners-dragsters at work.
Riveting.
The process of tying reinforcement bars for concrete.
Production processes in industrial enterprise workshops, workers’ faces.
View of the front of the Joseph Stalin locomotive.
The face of a military bugler giving a signal.
Panorama of a lathe for processing large-sized parts (top).
Construction of irrigation canals and dams in the 1950-1960s.
Blasting operations.
Kalinin M.I. presents awards in the Kremlin.
Athletes perform exercises synchronously on the stadium field (panorama).
A hot air balloon with a giant portrait of Stalin rises into the air.
A view of Red Square during the May Day demonstration in the 1970s.
May Day demonstration in Leningrad.
Jazz by Utesov plays.
People at the New Year's table raise their glasses.
A fragment of a musical film featuring Leonid and Edith Utesov.
A woman chooses fabric in a store.
People buy various goods in stores, sales assistants serve customers.
A woman tries on a fur coat.
The assortment of the sausage department.
The interior view of the sales area and the assortment of a grocery store.
Performance of the dance group of the Alexandrov Ensemble.
Sales assistants in the fruit and vegetable department behind the counters (panorama).
Sausages and meat of various types on the store counter.
A view of the sales area of a grocery store filled with customers.
Removing live fish with a net from an aquarium in the fish department of the store.
Performance of the dance group of the Alexandrov Ensemble.
Airplanes fly in formation in the shape of a fighter jet.
A queue for food on a street in Leningrad in the late 1980s, a panorama of a street market.
A farmer sowing a field by hand in the 1910s.
Cracks in the parched soil.
Kalinin Mikhail Ivanovich -- Performance of the dance group of the Alexandrov ensemble.
1910s 1917 1920s 1930s 04/12/1961 1970s 1980s
Moscow Leningrad Russia USSR
Spring Summer Autumn




Newsreel: girl showing off fashionable hat, girl's face.
Tug-of-war competition between students of girls' and boys' gymnasiums.
Girl running with a ball.
Participants of the rally at the Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad with a tricolor banner on the pedestal of the monument to M.I. Kutuzov.
View of Gorky Street in Moscow during a meeting of participants of the flight to the USA via the North Pole in 1937, leaflets flying from above.
Falling leaflets, view of the rally in Leningrad, portrait of Nicholas II in the hands of rally participants.
Parachutist with a tricolor banner descends onto Palace Square, interspersed with newsreel from the 1920s, children with a toy parachute.
Rides on the amusement park in the second half of the 1920s.
Steeplechase horse racing.
Girl's face.
Dances of the early 20th century.
Gymnastics classes in the German army in the 1910s.
A shot from a heavy German gun on a railway transporter.
A warship turns upside down, sailors in a lifeboat pick up drowning comrades.
Trucks with revolutionary soldiers on the streets of Petrograd during the February Revolution of 1917. A shell exploding.
OMON police hold back a crowd of protesters in Moscow in 1989-1990. A girl playing with a ball.
The Ferris Wheel amusement ride in the second half of the 1920s.
People riding the rides.
Inside the control room of an airship.
An airship in flight.
Skiing at one of the ski resorts.
Panorama of a rally in Leningrad during the perestroika era.
Lenin V.I. during the parade on Red Square on November 7, 1919. View of part of the rally in Leningrad.
A figure skater skating.
New Year's celebrations in Moscow in the 1930s, skating on a rink.
An airship in flight.
Molotov V.M., Mikoyan A.I., Beria L.P., Malenkov G.M. on the tribune of the mausoleum watching the air parade during the May Day celebrations.
A camel at the bazaar in Nizhny Novgorod.
Loading watermelons onto a barge, passing the watermelons along a chain.
A fight in the ring in the mud between three men in the USA. A girl's face.
Workers doing industrial gymnastics at their workplaces.
Figure driving of a tractor.
Demonstration of a light tank U-turn on Red Square.
A car crashes into an obstacle at speed, the driver flies out onto the pavement.
A rider on a horse jumps from a tower into a pool.
A horse jumps from a tower (from above).
A bicycle jump over parked cars, the cyclist falls.
A man dancing on a lawn.
Athletes performing synchronized movements with shovels, telephone operators in gas masks at the switchboard.
A motorcyclist's unsuccessful attempt to overcome a steep climb at high speed.
Performing synchronized movements during swimming training.
Car accidents during races.
A motorcyclist loses his motorcycle during a cross-country race.
Female athletes performing synchronized movements.
The Hindenburg airship sinking in flames on May 6, 1937. A hooligan smashing the windows of tram cars.
Dancing to the accordion during a party in the 1920s.
The Ferris Wheel ride.
A skirmish at a rally on November 7, 1989 in Leningrad on Palace Square, protesters snatch tricolor flags from each other.
The cruiser Aurora moves along the Neva for repairs.
A shot fired at a church dome.
People in India and Africa dunk each other in water.
Destruction of temples in the USSR in the 1920s.
Demonstration in Leningrad in 1989-1990, clashes with the police, detention of demonstrators.
Amusement rides, a carousel spinning.
A girl playing with a ball.
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich - statesman and political figure Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich - statesman and political figure
diplomat Mikoyan Anastas Ivanovich -- statesman and political figure Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich -- statesman and political figure
Head of the state security agencies Malenkov Georgy Maksimilianovich -- statesman and political figure
1910s 1917 11/07/1919 1920s 1930s 05/06/1937 11/07/1989 1989-1990
Moscow Leningrad Germany Western Europe Nizhny Novgorod USA
Spring Summer




Newsreel: soldiers of irregular units of the Abyssinian army.
Testing armored individual carts to protect soldiers from bullets and shrapnel.
A holiday in a kindergarten in the second half of the 1930s, children in Budyonnovka hats ride in a circle on pedal cars and tricycles.
Faces of girls dressed as nurses.
A boy with a toy rifle and in a Spanish cap at a demonstration in 1936-1938. Faces of young men shouldering rifles.
Athletes performing synchronized bayonet strikes during a sports festival.
Parade of Wehrmacht units.
Soldiers of the Cossack units of the Red Army demonstrate trick riding and saber chopping.
Hangar gates open.
View of a heavy artillery piece moving on a railway transporter (top).
Bringing the piece to combat readiness.
A column of British prisoners passes by during World War I. A camel harnessed to an armored car of the Russian army.
A French soldier during a rest.
British soldiers in a trench.
The British escort captured German soldiers.
A soldier carries a wounded comrade along the trench.
A shell explosion.
Russian soldiers in the trenches in the winter of 1915-1916. The Russian army conducts military operations in winter conditions.
Red Army sappers build bridges in a blizzard in the winter of 1943-1944. A prayer service on the front line in one of the regiments of the Russian army during World War I (panorama).
Panorama of a soldier's cemetery, a blizzard is sweeping.
Dancing in an African tribe.
Wehrmacht soldiers in formation.
Faces of marching German soldiers during the summer offensive of 1942, soldiers with bicycles.
Faces of Red Army soldiers taken prisoner in the first months of the Great Patriotic War.
Red Army soldiers in a prisoner of war camp.
German armored vehicles moving east.
Burning peasant houses.
The face of a German soldier.
Red Army rifle units on the march during the spring thaw.
Panorama of a destroyed firing position.
Combat operations between Soviet and German troops.
German tanks on the offensive.
German soldiers eating food.
Red Army units moving through snow and mud, bare feet of an artilleryman.
Pulling vehicles out of the mud.
Combat operations at sea during World War II. Soviet troops crossing water obstacles during the offensives of 1943-1944. A German soldier smoking a cigarette.
A Red Army soldier takes a girl raped by German soldiers to a medical battalion in one of the liberated cities of the Moscow region in the winter of 1941-1942. Street fighting in one of the populated areas.
People near the ruins of a burnt house.
Residents of Moscow walk past shop windows covered with sandbags.
Barrage balloon moving to the takeoff point.
Barrage balloon taking off over Leningrad.
German bomber dropping bombs.
Ground target hit.
Air battles.
Face of German pilot.
Panorama of bombed and burnt out settlement.
Child among ruins.
Combat actions and atrocities of American troops in Vietnam in 1960s.
Explosion of hydrogen bomb.
Nuclear weapons tests.
Soviet soldiers dancing to accordion on the street of one of German cities in 1945. Faces of German prisoners of war.
Distribution of bread to Berlin residents.
Faces of German girl and prisoner of war.
Combat actions in the Far East, light tank falls from cliff.
Ritual dance of African tribe.
Red Army commander presents New Year gifts to children.
Children during New Year celebration.
Members of Hitler Youth beat drums.
1914-1916 1930s 1936-1938 1941-1945 1960s
USSR Berlin Vietnam Moscow region Moscow Leningrad
Winter Spring Summer




Newsreel: view of Palace Square in Leningrad washed by rain in the early 1990s (top).
Festive fireworks over Leningrad, people's faces.
Faces of participants in a rock-punk festival (panorama).
Gagarin Yu.A. in the bus after arriving at the launch pad on April 12, 1961. Participants in the May Day demonstration in Moscow dancing in the street and playing accordions.
View of a wheat field.
The face of a tractor driver.
Participants in the World Festival of Youth and Students on the streets of Moscow in 1957. Meeting delegates returning from Moscow at the train station.
Seeing off those leaving for the virgin lands.
Church holiday.
Faces of people drinking from glasses and shot glasses at a wedding.
Newlyweds at the table, guests congratulating them.
Dance evening in a club.
Children watching a newsreel with Stalin.
Father takes the newborn in his arms, kisses his wife.
Kindergarten children on a walk, children's faces.
Lunch in the junior group of the kindergarten.
Riders on horseback.
Citizens of the USSR during their vacation in sanatoriums of the Crimea, the Caucasus and the Krasnodar Territory.
Relaxing on the beach.
Swimming in the sea.
Pioneer holiday, children's faces.
Faces of drunk teenagers during one of the rock events.
Dances of the peoples of Oceania.
The face of Mamlakat Nakhangova.
Faces of the delegates to the congress of collective farm shock workers in 1935. M. Nakhangova next to Stalin, Stalin signs and hands her his photograph.
Night festive fireworks.
Faces of the participants in the meeting of I.D. Papanin in Moscow on March 17, 1938. Papanin responds to greetings from Muscovites from an open car.
Germans greet Hitler.
Hitler with his hand raised in a Nazi salute.
View of the stadium stands, hands raised in a Nazi salute.
Red Army soldiers and commanders say goodbye to their families before leaving for the front in 1941. German soldiers ride amusement rides.
Faces of young men and women riding in transport.
Faces of men and women.
The face of a girl.
A puppet show about Kolobok.
Couples on a walk.
Sledding down a hill.
Ice skating.
Kissing generals and politicians.
A cat on the barrel of a ship's gun, a sailor picks it up.
Members of the Imperial Family dance on the deck of a yacht in the 1910s.
Distribution of wine on board the imperial yacht "Shtandart".
The heir to the throne walks around the yacht's crew.
Young people hug while sitting on the steps.
Festive fireworks in the sky over Leningrad.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich -- statesman and political figure Hitler Adolf -- German statesman and political figure Papanin Ivan Dmitrievich -- polar explorer
1910s 1935 03/17/1938 1941 1990s
Moscow Leningrad Germany USSR
Autumn Summer Spring




Newsreel from the 1900s: the inventor of the parachute suit on the parapet of the Eiffel Tower before jumping.
A parachutist falls.
A parachutist makes a long jump in the 1970s.
The coffin with the body of L. N. Tolstoy is carried into the train station in 1910. The procession with the coffins of the victims of the revolution moves along one of the streets of Petrograd on March 23, 1917. People take off their hats.
View of the frozen surface of the bay.
Busts of party figures being loaded onto trucks in the 1990s.
A bust of Stalin stands on the ground among the autumn leaves.
Faces of peasants during a funeral.
A queue to the Column Hall of the House of Unions on the streets of Moscow during the days of farewell to Lenin in January 1924. Lenin in a coffin.
Dzerzhinsky F. E. in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin.
Faces of pioneers standing in the guard of honor.
Children walk into the Hall of Columns to say goodbye to Lenin.
Faces of children passing by the coffin.
People on the streets of Moscow warming themselves by fires.
Stalin I.V. in the guard of honor at Kirov's coffin in December 1934. Tankers replace each other in the guard of honor next to Voroshilov K.E. Funeral whistle of a steamship.
Faces of grieving people.
People with shovels and wooden crosses on their shoulders pass by.
Funeral artillery salute on the territory of the Kremlin.
Subway car doors closing, faces of passengers.
A Red Army unit on the march during the Great Patriotic War.
Podgorny N.V. and Brezhnev L.I. during the wreath-laying ceremony at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery.
Gorbachev M.S. and his wife go to lay flowers at the monument.
Khrushchev N.S. lays a wreath at the monument.
Gorbachev and his wife at the monument after laying flowers.
Yeltsin B.N. straightens the ribbons of the funeral wreath.
The sun behind the clouds.
An elderly man feeds pigeons.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich - statesman and political figure Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich - statesman and political figure
head of state security agencies Voroshilov Kliment Efremovich -- state
political and military figure Khrushchev Nikita Sergeevich -- statesman and political figure Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich -- statesman and political figure Podgorny Nikolai Viktorovich -- statesman and political figure Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich -- statesman and political figure Yeltsin Boris Nikolaevich -- statesman and political figure
1900s 1910s 03/23/1917 01/1924 12/1934 1970s 1980s 1990s 2001
Leningrad Moscow Petrograd USSR
Spring Autumn Winter Summer