USSR: time of change (1988)

View of the Moskva River near the Kremlin.

Pedestrians on Arbat and other streets of Moscow.

Selling flowers.

Interviews (synchronously) of Russians about the situation in the country, democracy, perestroika.

Plant director Valerian Kuramzhin talks to workers, his interview (synchronously and off-camera) in his office at a table about the country's development path.

Plant workers toil at their workplaces.

A meeting at a table at the Vnedrenie firm.

A shop at the Kolomna Diesel Locomotive Plant, a metal processing machine in operation.

The plant's hot shop, smelting metal.

Steelworker A. Filippov speaks (synchronously) about the implementation of his invention at several plants with the assistance of the Vnedrenie firm.

A meeting of Vnedrenie managers.

The city of Leningrad, a monument to Peter the Great, traffic on the streets.

A shop at the Lenvest shoe factory.

A conveyor belt, workers at shoe sewing machines.

Samples of the plant's products: boots and shoes of various styles.

Joint management of production by the USSR and West Germany.

Interview (synchronously) with Gerhard Gins about the joint venture of the Leningrad Shoe Factory and the Salamander company (FRG).

A box with the inscription "Lenvest".

A signboard "Biocor international".

A meeting at the company.

A girl with diabetes is undergoing treatment using a new method on Dr. A. Kuzin's apparatus.

Interview (synchronously) with a patient about improving her health.

The organizer and director of the Biocor company A. Kuzin speaks (synchronously) about new opportunities for organizing work during the perestroika period.

View of the Turkey cafe.

Inside the cafe, visitors are sitting at tables, a waitress is carrying a tray.

Interview with Zoya Korchava (synchronously and off-screen) about her opening of a family cafe.

Work in the kitchen: cutting vegetables, pots on the stove, cutting up chickens, baking flatbreads in a tandoor.

The granddaughter of the cafe owner dries the dishes.

Serving customers at the tables.

Foreign guests of the cafe.

Entrance to Moscow cooperative cafes.

Premises of the cooperative cafe "Razgulyay".

Customers at the tables.

The waiter brings the order.

The city of Pärnu, streets, pedestrians.

A car drives along a country road.

Agricultural enterprise, work in the field, harvesting fodder.

A herd of cows.

Combine harvester repair.

Building of the village store.

Houses of collective farmers.

The building and interior halls of the cooperative store.

A panorama of the clothing sales department.

Customers in the store.

A fashion show on the catwalk.

Passers-by near paintings put up for sale.

Artists on Arbat paint portraits from life.

Paintings are displayed on the grass in the capital's Izmailovsky Park.

Passers-by.

Sale of icons and wooden nesting dolls.

Historical buildings, restoration construction work.

People work on the restoration of architectural monuments, passing bricks in a chain.

Views of the Kuskovo Estate Museum.

A panorama of the central building from the park with sculptures.

Sailing boats.

High-rise workers working on a brick wall of a residential building with insurance.

Interview (synchronously) with a rock climber.

Fans of air flights assemble hang gliders.

Preparation for takeoff, motorized hang gliders in flight.

Landscape plans: a forest, a field with flowers, a haystack in a field, a pond, a bee on a flower.

The city of Tallinn, pedestrians.

Queue at the Soyuzpechat kiosk, buying newspapers.

People are reading the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper on a street stand, discussing it.

A man with the Pravda newspaper in his hands is standing in line.

People at newspaper stands.

Interviews (synchronously) of citizens about perestroika.