Archival documents tell the story (1984)

Red Square – general.

St.

Basil's Cathedral – wed, Poland.

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky – kr, Poland.

Architectural monuments of the cities of our country – wed.

Monument to Peter the Great – wed, zoom in.

Monument to Pushkin (shot through the fountain) – wed.

Ancient book – kr, wed.

Repositories of state archives – map of connections of archival institutions – wed, kr.

Newsreel from 1972: The building where the 7th International Congress of Archives was held in August 1972 – kr, wed.

Congress audience; speaker speaking – wed.

Photographs of Soviet and foreign archivists – wed.

Opening of the exhibition dedicated to the State Archival Fund of the USSR at VDNKh – wed, kr.

Exhibition hall; books on a stand; documents (decrees of the Soviet government) – wed.

The exhibits include: seals of Tallinn craft guilds, Stefan Batory's charter to Vilnius University, Dmitry Donskoy's charter, the first printed book, "Apostle", a 12th-century medical manual, the first primers – wed, cr.

Magnitsky's arithmetic, the first Russian newspaper, medallions with portraits of political figures of the Great French Revolution, tin miniatures by the artist Kosmolinsky – wed, cr.

B/w: Historical books and documents (Radishchev's will, investigative files of Kibalchich, Dostoevsky, "surveillance diaries" of Mayakovsky) – wed, cr, Poland.

Photo: L. N. Tolstoy with his family, S. Yesenin.

Newsreel of the 10s-20s: S. Yesenin.

Visitors examining the exhibits – wed, Poland.

Archival documents – cr, Poland.

Workers laying rails on the BAM (archival drawings were used).

Photo: rockets, Yuri Gagarin – short, fade-in.

Newsreel from the 1910s-20s: V. I. Lenin and the manager of the Council of People's Commissars V. D. Bonch-Bruevich are standing on the square – medium.

Soldiers at Smolny – medium.

Leaders of the Soviet state, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, S. M. Kirov – medium.

Military leaders: M. F. Frunze with soldiers; M. N. Tukhachevsky on horseback; V. I. Chapayev – medium.

Bolshevik sailor Nikolai Markin (he published rare archival documents) – medium.

B/w: Archive workers sitting – medium, small.

Restorers – medium.

Photographs of destroyed and restored Petrograd – general.

Meeting of archivists with cinematographers; listeners, presidium, cameraman A. A. Lebedev speaking – Wed, cr.