Leningrad – the city of peace and friendship (1988)

View of the Winter Trench in Leningrad.

The tram goes on the Staro-Kalinkin Bridge over the Fontanka River.

Boat on the Fontanka River.

Performance of the bagpipe ensemble during a banquet in the House of Friendship.

The younger group of the kindergarten on a walk on one of the streets of Leningrad.

Scottish journalist Margaret Henderson looks at a plaque on the wall of a building outside the city.

Portrait of the Leningrad artist A. Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

Photos of Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

Henderson passes through the kronverk of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Self-portrait of Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

Ostroumova-Lebedeva's watercolors, created during the siege of Leningrad and sent to Scotland as greetings from the fighting Leningrad.

Newsreel of 1941-1942: a man carries a coffin with the body of a relative who died of starvation on a sledge.

People on one of the streets of besieged Leningrad.

Passers-by pick up a woman who has fallen from hunger.

People on the bridge, a woman carries a corpse wrapped in matting on a sled.

View of the Winter Neva River.

Henderson walks across the square.

Sheets of the album sent by the women of Great Britain to the residents of the besieged Leningrad.

Henderson talks about the reasons for creating the album (synchronously, in English).

Henderson, along with other visitors, examines photographs of the period of the siege of Leningrad.

Henderson's face.

Watercolors from the album sent to the women of Scotland from Leningrad.

Concert in the House of Friendship.

Participants of the event sing, holding hands.

Album cover sent from the UK.

Participants of the Peace March on the streets of Leningrad, the faces of the participants of the march.

Presentation of bread and salt to a black American marcher.

Soviet and American participants of the march go in an embrace.

Marchers and Leningrad residents standing on the sidewalks greet each other.

Participants of the Peace March plant a Friendship Tree.

A column of tourist buses passes by the monument to Peter the Great.

Representatives of foreign countries in the lobby of the House of Friendship before the start of the solemn event.

The ceremony of laying wreaths at the monument at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery.

Panorama of the event.

Laying a wreath, V. V. Tereshkova among the participants of the ceremony.

Faces of foreign guests.

Foreigners lay flowers on the mass graves of Leningrad residents who died in the siege.

President of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship D. Randolph speaks about the importance of the meeting of representatives of different countries in the House of Friendship (synchronously).

View of the meeting hall.

The faces of the participants of the meeting, among them - Tereshkova.

Tereshkova talks about the participants of the meeting, their role in strengthening the friendship of foreign countries with the USSR (synchronously).

A motorcade passes by the House of Friendship.

Chinese delegates during a tour of the Peter and Paul Fortress, view of the bell tower of the Peter and Paul Cathedral.

Chinese language lesson in a Soviet school, children answer the teacher in Chinese.

The student writes hieroglyphs with chalk on the blackboard.

A teacher talks with Sinologists from Leningrad University.

Chinese guests during a tea party.

The chairman of the Chinese People's Society for Friendship with Foreign Countries speaks about the development of Soviet-Chinese friendship (synchronously, in Chinese).

View of the Neva River and the cruiser "Aurora" in Leningrad (top).

people on Nevsky Prospekt.

Samples of products of the Leningrad Porcelain Factory.

Master Kireev paints porcelain dishes.

Artists at work.

View of the main square of Meissen.

Kireev, as part of the Leningrad delegation, watches the work of the masters of the porcelain factory during the Days of Leningrad in Dresden.

The artist paints a porcelain figurine.

Leningrad guests get acquainted with the work of German colleagues - masters of porcelain products.

The chairman of the Dresden District Office of the German-Soviet Friendship Society, Professor G. Muziol, speaks about the high level of German-Soviet relations,

Leningrad guests during a visit to the industrial enterprises of the GDR.

The delegates of Leningrad listen to the explanations of one of the engineers.

Views of the new quarters and streets of Dresden.

Views of the central historical part of Dresden.

Performance of an opera singer.

Panorama of the square in Dresden.

Choir performance.

Physicist Wolfgang Dreyer shares his impressions of Leningrad (synchronously, in German).

Views of Leningrad from a pleasure boat on the Fontanka River.

View of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The face of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.

A. Lindgren during a visit to Petrodvorets, panorama of the cascade of fountains (top).

Interior view of the main hall of the Catherine Palace.

Lindgren during a tour of the halls of the palace.

Leningrad schoolchildren during a meeting with Astrid Lindgren.

Lindgren gives an interview about his friendly and warm attitude to Russia and the Russians (synchronously).

Faces of children and A. Lindgren.

The audience in the hall applauds.

A fragment of the performance of the Leningrad Drama Theater based on the book by Lindgren "Pippi Longstocking".

The actors accompany Astrid Lindgren to the stage.

Lindgren on stage with a Russian edition of her book presented to her, the audience applauds.

Cuban landscape.

Locals ride in a two-wheeled cart pulled by a mule.

Views of the city of Santiago de Cuba and its surroundings.

Leningrad guests on the streets of the city communicate with the Cubans.

Weaver Elena Yegorova talks with the workers of the local textile factory.

Yegorova works on a loom in one of the workshops of the factory.

Leningrad weaver Elena Egorova shares her experience with her Cuban colleagues.

Yegorova works on the loom together with the Cuban weavers.

The faces of the Cuban and Leningrad weavers, the girls give interviews.

Performance of the Leningrad children's folk ensemble in front of the Cuban pioneers.

Cuban pioneers dance a group dance.

New Year celebrations in Santiago de Cuba, fireworks.

View of the Palace Square in Leningrad (from above).

Types of Nevsky Prospekt.

Finnish architects inspect the stands with building projects and models of new buildings at the exhibition dedicated to the modern construction of Leningrad.

Director of the Hermitage Boris Piotrovsky during the discussion of options for the restoration of old buildings in Leningrad with representatives of Finnish construction companies at the symposium of architecture and construction.

Arrival of Finnish Prime Minister Harri Holkeri at the restoration of the Astoria Hotel.

Holkeri and his entourage listen to the explanations of the architects and work managers.

Holkeri inspects one of the hotel rooms.

Holkeri and Finnish specialists during a tour of the Hermitage halls.

View of the exhibition part of one of the halls.

Service in the church of the Leningrad Theological Academy, the faces of saints on icons.

Internal view of the church during the service (panorama).

The Rector of the Academy delivers a welcoming speech to the Catholic delegates from Florence (synchronously).

The Choir of Seminarians performs before the Italian guests.

Interior view of the temple.

Bishop Vivaldi speaks about the main purpose of contacts between the clergy of Russia and Italy (synchronously).

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War on Nevsky Prospekt on May 9.

Foreign guests give interviews, share their impressions, and talk with veterans.

Children's faces.

A military brass band is walking along Nevsky Prospekt.

An American cameraman is shooting.

Veterans walk along Nevsky Prospekt.

Leningrad residents on the Anichkov Bridge greet passing veterans.

View of Nevsky Prospekt during the march of veterans (top).

Leningrad residents standing on the balconies greet the veterans.

View of the Nevsky Prospekt and the Kazan Cathedral during the march of veterans (top).

View of the bell tower of the Peter and Paul Cathedral.

Festive evening fireworks in the sky of Leningrad, view of the Neva River and the Peter and Paul Fortress.