The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Helsinki.




Political map of Europe.
General view of one of the settlements in Finland.
People on the streets of Helsinki, workers repair the road surface.
Monuments in Madrid.
Excursion to Peterhof, general view of the cascade of fountains.
People on the streets of European cities.
A girl playing with a dog, children in the park, cleaning up autumn leaves.
Children with parents on an excursion to Peterhof, a girl's face.
An American military transport plane is landing.
A policeman pushes people away from the fence of a US military base in Europe.
A protest demonstration at the gates of a military base, demonstrators are detained by the police.
Clashes between demonstrators and the police.
Anti-war demonstrations and rallies in European cities.
A tank column of NATO troops moves along the road.
Reconnaissance unit exercises in the forest.
NATO planes at the airfield.
A carrier-based fighter landing on an aircraft carrier.
View of a cathedral in one of the cities of West Germany.
Historical monuments on the streets of European cities.
Views of museum exhibits and art galleries in Europe.
The face of a girl.
Panorama of the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome.
Examples of bladed weapons on a museum stand.
Armor, weapons and battle paintings in museum exhibits.
Examples of smooth-bore and rifled firearms, battle paintings reflecting the history of European wars.
Newsreel of 1915-1917: a heavy artillery gun fires, soldiers in a trench during World War I. French light tanks break through enemy positions, infantry attacks with the support of tanks.
A heavy tank on the offensive, a gun fires, shells explode.
Infantry rises after artillery shelling.
French soldiers in gas masks.
Painting by V.V. Vereshchagin "The Apotheosis of War".
Cover and illustrations of the book "Alexander I".
Newsreel of 1919: arrival of representatives of the Entente and the Triple Alliance in Versailles to sign a peace treaty in June 1919. Panorama of the conference room during the negotiations, participants in the negotiations during the meeting.
A copy of the Treaty of Versailles, signed and sealed.
Hitler A. speaking from the rostrum in the 1930s, participants in Nazi events salute Hitler (shots against the background of the swastika).
German bombers flying.
Fires after the bombing of England in 1940. German soldiers in the occupied city lead arrested people in 1939-1941. The face of a German soldier.
Views of destroyed buildings on the streets of Nuremberg in 1946. View of a destroyed city block (from above).
Panorama of part of the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in Leningrad.
People lay flowers on the graves, people's faces.
Monuments to the victims of World War II in the cities of the USSR and Europe.
Newsreel from 1975: a view of a street in Helsinki, with flags of the member states of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe fluttering.
General view of the conference hall (top).
President of Finland U. Kekkonen speaking.
The face of one of the participants in the Conference, a panorama of the conference hall, photos and television reporters filming.
Representatives of the member states converse with each other and sign copies of the Final Act of the Conference.
View of the press box.
Participants in the conference leave the building after the conference.
Meetings in Geneva of representatives of the member states to discuss ratification of the signed documents.
Participants in the meeting in Geneva during the session.
Hitler Adolf - German statesman and political figure Kekkonen Urho Kaleva - Finnish statesman and political figure
1915-1917 06.1919 1930s 1939-1941 1946 1975
Western Europe Helsinki Switzerland France
Summer Autumn




Newsreel from 1980: view of one of the squares in Madrid.
View of the building and the conference hall of the next Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Representatives of the participating countries speak from the rostrum and applaud during the meeting.
Panorama of part of the hall and the building where the Conference was held.
Views of new buildings in Madrid (from above).
Signing of joint documents.
People in the square greet the participants of the Madrid meeting who have come out to the balcony.
The military observe the progress of NATO troop exercises in Europe.
A speaker speaks at one of the meetings, faces of the participants in the meeting, including S.P. Kapitsa.
One of the meetings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, members of the Soviet delegation during the meeting.
Panorama of the conference hall.
The participants in the Conference talk on the sidelines.
Unloading a ship in the port, a crane operator in the cabin of the port crane.
Unloading pipes for the construction of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.
Construction of the gas pipeline.
The face of one of the builders.
Siberian landscape.
Panorama of the gas workers' settlement.
Meeting of Soviet and foreign workers' delegations.
Opening of the gas pipeline valve.
Signing of one of the agreements on cooperation between the USSR and European countries.
Participants in the signing of the agreement give interviews (synchronously), sheets of documents with signatures.
Map with the threads of future gas pipelines to Europe marked on it.
Paintings by European artists of different eras depicting international trade.
French flag on the mast of a passenger ship.
Tourists go up and down the gangways.
Foreign tourists on Red Square in Moscow.
Tourists take pictures of Moscow architectural monuments and landmarks.
General view of Sverdlov Square from the pediment of the Bolshoi Theater, quadriga above the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.
People at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater, flags of European countries on the columns of the theater building.
Tourists get off the bus.
General view of the Rossiya Hotel building, people stand at the entrance.
Faces of tourists.
The work of foreign photo and television reporters in Moscow.
Journalists transmit information to newspaper editorial offices via teletypes and long-distance telephones.
People buy foreign newspapers and magazines at a kiosk on Kalinin Avenue.
Passers-by on Kalinin Avenue give interviews (synchronously).
People in the Moscow House of Books look through foreign editions.
Old engravings reflecting the emergence and development of book printing in Europe.
Pages of old books printed in European printing houses.
An old edition of Shakespeare's works in English.
Foreign books on the counter of a Moscow store.
People look through books.
Books about the struggle for peace in foreign languages.
Store employees make a list for purchasing new books.
1980
Madrid
Summer




An old engraving depicting a library hall.
Astronomical instruments from different eras, a view of an old globe and compass.
An engraving depicting the geographer Ptolemy drawing a map.
A stand with a diagram of the Venus-Halley project.
Examples of spacecraft of joint development for studying the surface of other planets in the exhibition hall.
An employee of the Mission Control Center (MCC) at the controls.
The head of the MCC at the controls.
A view of a part of one of the MCC halls.
The launch of a spacecraft.
Astronauts in outer space.
Dispatchers at the controls.
Animation demonstrating the action of space weapons.
Newsreel from 1983: US President Reagan R. gives a speech on the need to implement the Strategic Defense Initiative program.
Anti-war demonstrations in Europe, people stand in pickets, overturn police cars.
Clashes between demonstrators and police.
Anti-war rallies at American military bases.
Collection of signatures against the deployment of American missiles in Europe, anti-war demonstrations in European cities.
Anti-war rally in Moscow, the speaker speaks into the microphone.
Participants of the rally listen to the speaker.
The speaker's speech, general view of the rally.
View of part of Paris (from above).
Gorbachev M.S. goes to the Elysee Palace to meet with French President Mitterrand F. in October 1985. Gorbachev and Mitterrand during negotiations.
Gorbachev's motorcade drives through Paris.
Gorbachev visits the Peugeot plant.
People on the streets of Paris, decorated with Soviet and French flags.
Triumphal Arch on the Place de l'Etoile.
Views of the neighborhoods and streets of Geneva.
Gorbachev and Reagan during a meeting in Geneva in November 1985. Television reporters film on the steps of the palace.
Reagan and Gorbachev during negotiations.
Reagan and Gorbachev sit in chairs before signing the Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Nuclear War.
Shevardnadze E.A. signs the declaration, Gorbachev and Reagan stand nearby.
People on the streets of European cities read newspapers, faces of tourists.
Parents take their children to school on September 1. Schoolchildren before the start of the ceremonial assembly.
People at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, the eternal flame burns.
General view of part of the Moscow Kremlin (above).
The face of a girl.
Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich - statesman and political figure Shevardnadze Eduard Amvrosievich - statesman and political figure Mitterrand Francois Maurice Adrien Marie - French statesman and political figure Reagan Ronald - American statesman and political figure
1983 1985
Moscow Paris Switzerland Washington
Summer Autumn