The Road to Happiness (1977)

Night views of the Spasskaya Tower, St.

Basil's Cathedral, and the monument to Minin and Pozharsky.

Filming the cathedral using a camera crane.

View of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Eternal Flame burning.

Sentries at Post No. 1 at the entrance to the mausoleum.

The national flag of the USSR over the Kremlin.

The ruby star glows in the night darkness.

Arctic landscape.

An icebreaker moves through the ice.

Panorama of the rocky seashore.

A crane operator climbs the ladder to the tower crane cabin.

Fishermen at work.

A welder at work.

The production process in a foundry.

The face of a steelmaker.

Reindeer herders drive a herd of deer.

A sunflower field.

The face of a combine operator.

Threshed grain pours out of the combine's sleeve.

The national flag of the USSR flutters.

The cruiser "Aurora" on the Neva.

A monument to V.I. Lenin on the square of the Finland Station.

A supersonic passenger airliner takes off.

Newsreel from 1913: a ceremonial procession in the Kremlin with the participation of members of the Imperial family, Emperor Nicholas II passes by with the empress and heir.

Ministers and officials of the Retinue of His Imperial Majesty pass by, interspersed with photographs of the life and everyday life of Russian peasants at the beginning of the 20th century.

Nicholas II kisses the cross, receives the blessing of the metropolitan.

Heavy artillery on the fronts of World War I. Wounded soldiers are led and carried to a hospital train, a carriage of a hospital train.

Loading the wounded into a carriage.

A memorial service at the graves of Russian soldiers.

War invalids walk to the Moscow City Duma in March 1917. Soldiers' demonstrations on the streets of Moscow and Petrograd in March 1917. Streets of Petrograd in the March days of 1917, rallies.

Members of the Petrograd Soviet at the entrance to the Tauride Palace in the summer of 1917. Kerensky A.F. gets into a car.

Kerensky in the back seat of a driving away car.

Portrait of Lenin.

Fragments from the feature films "October" and "Lenin in October" staging the preparation and storming of the Winter Palace.

Lenin proclaims Soviet power (feature footage).

Newsreel from 1917: fraternization at the front, faces of German and Russian soldiers.

Faces of participants in a soldiers' rally in the trenches, alternate with anti-Bolshevik posters.

Japanese naval officers on the deck of a warship during the intervention in the Far East in 1918. French troops march in parade formation, a photograph of Admiral Kolchak with Russian and English officers during visits to the front lines.

The interventionists shoot captured communists.

Lenin V.I. speaks on Red Square at a memorial service for Sverdlov's funeral on March 18, 1919. A tram with artillery pieces on platforms passes by, interspersed with fragments of posters from the Civil War period.

Training of new recruits in the Red Army.

A Red Army unit passes by.

Sailors on one of the streets of Petrograd.

The armored train crew takes its places at the bugler's signal.

Sailors load ammunition onto the platform, a photograph of Lidiya Mokievskaya among the Red Army soldiers.

Artillery crews on the armored platforms of a moving armored train.

Faces of the gunners.

The armored train fires on the move.

Attack of the Red Cavalry in the winter steppe.

Budyonny S.M. and Voroshilov K.E. on horseback during the parade of units of the First Cavalry Army in 1920. Red Army soldiers in formation.

Photo portraits of Oleko Dundich, F. Platten, underground fighter Zhanna Laborbe.

Newsreel from 1919: Lenin on a truck platform during the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on May 25, 1919. Red Army units march across Red Square.

Newsreel from the early 1920s: participants in the May Day demonstration on the streets of Moscow.

View of a Moscow street.

Starving people on city streets and at railway stations in 1922. Street children.

Fragment of the demolished monument to Alexander III. A child stands by the remains of the monument.

Delivery of street children to the reception center.

Children with bowls in their hands stand in line for food.

Faces of street children.

Faces of children at a New Year's party.

Toys on a New Year's tree.

Children dance during a New Year's party with Father Frost and Snegurochka.

Dance on stage around the New Year's tree.

Faces of children.

Newsreel: Lenin V.I. speaks at a rally on the occasion of the opening of the monument to Marx and Engels on Theater Square in Moscow on November 7, 1918. Peasants plough the land with the help of a captured English tank.

Faces of peasants.

Kalinin M.I. walks behind a plough, making a furrow.

Plowing the land with ploughs.

Windmills in operation.

A peasant in a field near a plough.

Panorama of a peasant rally in the late 1920s.

People dig the land with shovels.

Collective farmers go to a ceremonial meeting.

Tractors make the first furrows.

Faces of peasants.

View of a passing tractor column (above).

Combine harvesters harvesting grain.

Heavy wheeled tractors drive through the territory of the Kirov Plant in Leningrad.

Panorama of the assembly line.

Another tractor heads for the exit from the workshop.

Newsreel from 1924: the funeral procession behind Lenin's coffin on the way from Gorki to Gerasimovka station on January 22, 1924. People enter the Column Hall of the House of Unions to say goodbye to Lenin's body.

Dzerzhinsky, Kalinin in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

People pass by the coffin.

Faces of representatives of the peoples of the USSR (panorama).

Views of the funeral meeting on Red Square on the day of the burial of Lenin's body in the mausoleum on January 27, 1924. The clock on the Spasskaya Tower.

Funeral rifle and artillery salute.

Funeral horns of locomotives, factories and plants.

Construction of industrial enterprises during the first five-year plans.

Construction of a railway.

Legs of concrete workers compacting mortar.

A miner in a coalface.

Panorama of one of the industrial enterprises.

Production processes in a foundry.

A new crawler tractor heads for the exit from the workshop.

Tractors en route on railway platforms.

View of a lock.

The rise of the stratospheric balloon USSR-1 in September 1933. Tanks pass through Red Square during the May Day parade of 1935, the Maxim Gorky airplane flies over the square.

The airplane lands at an airfield above the Arctic Circle.

Pilots meet at the airplane.

The airplane in flight.

Landing of Chkalov's airplane on June 20, 1937 in Vancouver, USA. Chkalov V.P., Baidukov G.F and Belyakov A.V. at the airplane.

The raising of the stars on the Kremlin towers in 1935, people watch the raising.

One of the installed stars.

People enter the mausoleum.

The face of the English writer Bernard Shaw.

Shaw talks to peasants during his visit to the USSR in 1931. Gorky A.M. and the French writer Romain Rolland during a conversation at a dacha in Gorki.

Rolland and Gorky during a walk.

The face of Gorky talking to Rolland.

French writer Henri Barbusse speaking in the Hall of Columns of the House of Trade Unions in 1927. Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore.

Photograph of Tagore among the Young Pioneers.

Panorama of the Kremlin wall.

Clock on the Spasskaya Tower, star on the spire.

Views of Moscow streets and avenues.

Professor and ophthalmologist Fyodorov S.N. performs an operation to replace the lens of the eye.

Fyodorov reads letters of gratitude from his patients, examines a drawing of a child who regained his sight.

Souvenirs and gifts on the shelves.

Fyodorov does an exercise with a weight.

Fyodorov during another operation.

Apple blossoms on the branches.

A taxi driver from Sochi, on whom Fyodorov performed an operation, is behind the wheel.

The taxi drives along the streets of Sochi.

People on Red Square, view of the Spasskaya Tower.

A young father takes his wife and child from the maternity hospital.

The baby's face.

View of part of Kalinin Avenue.

View of the oncology center under construction in Moscow.

Newsreel from the early 1920s: workers repairing a locomotive during a subbotnik.

A repaired locomotive, decorated with flowers and banners, on a turntable.

Lenin V.I. on a truck platform during the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on Red Square in Moscow on May 25, 1919. Workers on a repaired locomotive.

Construction of one of the industrial enterprises.

Workers of one of the plants work on a subbotnik.

Faces of workers - participants in the All-Union Communist Subbotnik.

A meeting in the plant shop on the occasion of the Communist Subbotnik.

The production process in the foundry, steelmakers at the furnaces.

Faces of the steelmakers.

Issuance of melts.

A pipe rolling mill operator at the control panel.

Metallurgists of Cherepovets, members of the team led by I. Durnev with their families are relaxing in a restaurant, dancing.

Members of the team at the table.

Durnev talks about his life and work (synchronously).

Durnev's wife, Nina, talks about her survival from execution during the Nazi occupation (synchronously).

Members of the brigade at the table.

Newlyweds are photographed against the backdrop of St.

Basil's Cathedral.

Newlyweds lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The Eternal Flame is burning.

Faces of the newlyweds.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Luftwaffe planes in the sky.

German warships on the march.

Parade of Wehrmacht units.

German bombers are flying.

German artillery is firing.

The advance of German tanks and infantry in June 1941. Goering H. inspects the guard of honor.

German troops steal cattle in the occupied territory.

German soldiers lead peaceful Soviet citizens under escort.

People are loaded into carriages.

A train with labor is sent to Germany.

A woman is crying.

A Red Army unit marches through the streets of Moscow in the autumn of 1841. Distribution of weapons and ammunition to the people's militia division fighters.

A rally at a factory, faces of Leningrad militiamen.

A speaker delivering a speech at a rally in June 1941. Faces of the people's militia fighters marching in formation.

Germans bombing Soviet territory, shadow of a bomber.

A column of German troops advancing.

Villagers near burning houses.

A woman with a child on their backs.

Troops march past the mausoleum during the parade on November 7, 1941, the USSR leadership is on the mausoleum tribune.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy during the Battle of Moscow.

Soviet troops on the offensive.

A sign in German.

Corpses of German soldiers covered in snow.

Panorama of a German soldier's cemetery.

Panorama of burning Stalingrad in the summer of 1942. Soviet troops fighting in the streets of Stalingrad.

Red Army soldiers defending a residential building.

Salvoes of Soviet rocket launchers.

Tanks and infantry attack.

The face of a machine gunner.

A medical orderly bandages a wounded man.

Artillery fires during street fighting in Berlin in April 1945. A group of soldiers with a red banner rushes to the Reichstag building.

The Victory Banner over the Reichstag, soldiers and officers salute with small arms fire.

Frontline5 cameramen film the inscriptions on the walls of the Reichstag made by Soviet soldiers.

Residents of one of the liberated cities of Europe welcome the Soviet troops.

A soldier returns home, his relatives embrace him.

Faces of participants in the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. The clock on the Spasskaya Tower.

The parade commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K., rides out of the Spassky Gate on horseback.

Participants of the parade in formation.

The battalion of captured banners marches along Red Square.

Stalin I.V. and Budyonny S.M. on the mausoleum tribune.

German banners are thrown at the foot of the mausoleum.

Blacksmith Shomakhmudov at work.

Shomakhmudov and his wife at the dastarkhan with the orphaned children they adopted.

The children's faces.

Shomakhmudov's wife rocks the baby in the cradle.

The grown-up Shomakhmudov children at the table during a visit to their mother in Tashkent.

A memorial plaque in honor of Shomakhmudov on the wall of a building.

Newsreel of 1966: the earthquake in Tashkent.

Destruction left by the earthquake, views of the destroyed streets of Tashkent.

A monument to the victims of the earthquake.

Children sit on the edge of the fountain.

Views of the streets and new buildings of Tashkent.

Panorama of the new city block (above).

Landscapes of the north of Kamchatka.

Reindeer herders of the Koryak National Okrug graze their reindeer.

A herd of reindeer runs by.

A shaman dances around a fire during a national holiday, faces of the holiday participants.

A performance of a national Koryak dance, faces of the dancers.

Local radio station announcers broadcast.

A panorama of part of a village, a loudspeaker on a pole.

Shepherds drive a collective farm herd of reindeer.

View of a new village of reindeer herders.

Children go to an exam at a music school.

Pages of an advertising brochure for a Koryak national ensemble.

Newsreel from the 1930s: cameramen film Koryaks in one of the camps.

Koryaks listen to the radio.

Faces of Koryaks.

A girl performs a polka on the piano during a lesson at a local music school.

The face of an elderly Koryak.

A satellite dish for radio and television broadcasting.

A Koryak family in front of a television.

A performance by a Russian dance ensemble.

Construction of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station on the Yenisei.

A bus passes along the road.

View of the Lenin House Museum in the village of Shushenskoye.

Interiors of the house where Lenin lived.

Portrait of Lenin.

View of the machine room of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station.

Panorama of the hydroelectric power station dam.

Panorama of the embankment dam in the Vakhsh Valley.

Construction of a hydroelectric power station in the Vakhsh Valley in Nurek, faces of workers and engineers.

American specialists during a visit to the construction of the Nurek hydroelectric power station.

Faces of Americans.

Tunnels punched to the turbines of the hydroelectric power station to provide water access.

View of a part of the gas field on Samotlor, a flare bursts out of the ground (above).

The face of a driller.

People at a gas flare.

An all-terrain vehicle goes through the snow.

Landing of a transport plane.

The face of a surveyor.

Unloading equipment from an airplane.

Panorama of the construction of a bridge on one of the sections of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

Laying the railroad bed.

Faces of track layers.

A helicopter rotor spins.

Panorama of a part of one of the BAM sections under construction (top).

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, mason T. Vasina reads letters from voters.

A party of surveyors goes through the taiga.

A train with sections of the railway passes.

A poster by the railway.

Faces of BAM builders.

BAM builders answer the question about what features are dear to them in a contemporary (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1961: Gagarin Yu.A. before his flight into space.

Gagarin's farewell at the cosmodrome.

Gagarin climbs the stairs to the spacecraft, Gagarin's pre-flight interview is played in the background.

View of the cosmodrome from the elevator cabin.

View of the lower part of the spacecraft.

Gagarin in the pilot's seat of the spacecraft before the launch.

The launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. The national flag of the USSR over the Kremlin.

Views of the demonstration on Red Square in honor of the successful completion of Gagarin's flight into space.

Faces of people greeting Gagarin.

Residents of the USSR and foreign countries greet Gagarin.

Gagarin's motorcade on the roads of Egypt.

Camel riders.

Gagarin at the statue of the Sphinx.

Gagarin with a child in his arms.

Gagarin responds to greetings from the car.

Faces of tourists who arrived in Leningrad.

The Lenin monument at the entrance to Smolny.

Fragments of the feature film "October".

Dispersal of a demonstration in one of the Asian countries.

Faces of African partisans.

A ceremonial procession on Cuba, with Castro in the front rank.

Castro greets the participants of the demonstration from the rostrum.

Views of a rally of solidarity with the USSR in one of the European countries.

Panorama of the meeting hall of the 25th Congress of the CPSU (from above).

Brezhnev L.I. delivers a report from the rostrum, faces of the congress delegates.

The delegates applaud standing up.

Brezhnev meets foreign guests, talks with them.

The face of Kadar J. View of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant.

Panorama of the control room.

NPP employees at work.

The work process in one of the computing centers of the Central Statistical Office, printing out data.

Operation of the computing center equipment.

Young architects discuss new urban development projects using building models as examples.

Faces of architects.

Sketch of the interiors of the new Youth Palace.

Views of Kalinin Avenue in Moscow.

Views of residential areas of Moscow.

Views of new buildings and streets in Ashgabat.

Visitors in the Ashgabat city library.

Students of technical schools and higher educational institutions of the USSR during practical classes and lectures.

Faces of students, a teacher at the blackboard explains the subject.

Faces of girls in the library.

Covers and pages of foreign illustrated publications with articles devoted to the easing of international tension.

Launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Monuments in Khatyn.

Brezhnev delivers a speech from the rostrum about the struggle for peace (synchronously).

People in the hall listen to Brezhnev’s speech.

Demonstration on Red Square.

Text of the Decree on Peace.

Portrait of Lenin.

Revolutionary soldiers on the streets of Petrograd in 1917 (newsreel).

Portrait of Lenin.

View of Red Square during the demonstration (from above).

Panorama of the conference hall in Helsinki in 1975. Brezhnev signs the Final Act of the Conference.

Photojournalists take pictures.

Brezhnev applauds, Tito J.B. sits next to him.

The clock and the star on the spire of the Spasskaya Tower.

Views of Red Square during the May Day demonstration.

Brezhnev, Tikhonov N.A. and Suslov M.A. on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Views of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (above).

Evening festive fireworks over Moscow.