Moscow 1971 archive footage

Описание: Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USSR, probably in late 1971

It contains stock footage of Moscow:

0:00: pedestrians and traffic lights
0:03: Soviet Gosplan headquarters (now the Russian State Duma)
0:19: the billboard of the XXIV Congress of the CPSU held in 1971
0:27: people walking in the street and car traffic
0:39: a shoeshine near the cinema. On the right side, the poster of the movie “The White Bird Marked with Black” (in Russian «Белая птица с чёрной отметиной»). That movie won the Golden Prize at Moscow Film Festival in July 1971; the wide release of it in Moscow cinemas began on January 1 1972
0:43: Maly Theatre
0:46: Bolshoi Theatre
1:03: a policeman directing traffic
1:24: trolleybus 20 on Gorky Street
1:27: trams 3 and A on Chistye Prudy Boulevard at the tramstop of Yauzsky Boulevard, on the crossroad with Vorontsovo Pole Street (camera zoom on houses 11-1, 13 with Stalinist skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in the background)
1:50: Okhotnik (a Hunter) shop and Praga Restaurant in Arbat Street
2:17: people walking in the street along Kalinin Prospekt (now Novy Arbat Street) near the bus stop next to Charodeyka Beauty Salon and opposite to Oktyabr Sinema
3:09: Kremlin's Kutafya and Troitskaya Towers shot from Kalinin Prospekt at Lenin State Library building
3:18: the Red Square and people waiting in front of Lenin Mausoleum
4:44: the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden
5:02: people visiting the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy trade show
5:09: “Agriculture’ and ‘Corn’ pavilions
6:31: Kalanchyovsky viaduct
6:35: Griboyedov square and its monument, then the same tram route as on 1:27;
7:08: Smolensky metrobridge
7:13: the arch of the main entrance of VDNKh and the poster ‘Russian Winter’
8:03: Vestibule of Arbatskaya (Line 3) metro station (built in 1953); in the 1980s, it was demolished and moved into the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces new building)
8:13: view to the side of the Kremlin near Gostiniy Dvor in Stepan Razin (Varvarka) Street
8:24: the granite composition "The Death of a Leader" by sculptor Sergei Merkurov in the museum-estate Gorki Leninskiye: one of the masterpieces in the art of Leniniana, made under the influence of Auguste Rodin and Constantin Meunier
8:27: Kalinin Prospekt and the Church of Simeon the Stylite in Povarskaya Street; as there is no snow, the footage was probably shot weeks after the first part
8:34: the Square of the 50th Anniversary of October (Manezhnaya), National and Intourist hotels, Asia-Africa Institute of MSU
8:48: Moscow State University skyscraper and Lomonosov Monument
9:13: Red Square and the Kremlin shot from Raushskaya Embankment
9:41: the entrance of the Kremlin
11:32: the Church of the Transfiguration and Smolensky Cathedral at Novodevichy Convent
13:12: the east side of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign, in today's Zaryadye Park
13:19: St Basil’s Cathedral in the Red Square

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