Sofia, Russian Boulevard (1981)

Movie №8551, 2 parts, Duration: 0:19:47

Studio CSDF (RCSDF)

On request: Sovinfilm, Time (NRB)

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The film is dedicated to the Bulgarian revolutionary R. Avramov, a comrade-in-arms of V. I. Lenin.

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The film tells about the Bulgarian revolutionary R. Avramov and his activities, which are inextricably linked with the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Photographs of R. Avramov over the years. Photographs of Bulgarian revolutionaries. Historian A. Velov talks about R. Avramov’s cooperation with the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper. The text of R. Avramov’s letter on V. I. Lenin’s letterhead. Avramov’s daughter talks about her family (synchronously). Avramov’s son, L. R. Avramov, talks about his father’s book, which includes his memoirs of three meetings with V. I. Lenin in 1918 (synchronously). Bulgaria, Sofia. Russian Boulevard. The former royal palace. A monument to Soviet soldiers on Russian Boulevard. Svishtov. Streets of the city. A monument to the writer A. Konstantinov. The house where R. Avramov’s family lived. The film uses footage from newsreels: views of Sofia in the 1910s, a market in Svishtov in the 1910s, a camp of the Bulgarian army during the Balkan War of 1912-13, a governor speaking to the army, captured Turks; street children, hungry children, on the streets of Moscow in 1921; distribution of bread and food to hungry children.