Moscow 1979 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an Austrian filmmaker while touring USSR in 1979.

It contains stock footage of Moscow: 

00:00 - The Kremlin (view from Sofiyskaya Embankment of the Moskva River, then Maurice Thorez Embankment)
00:48 - Red Square (Saint Basil's Cathedral under restoration, Spasskaya Tower, Lenin Mausoleum, State Historical Museum, GUM Store; Honor Board at Mausoleum)
Views from the window of a bus 
Manezhnaya Street:
01:44 - The Pashkov House - part of Lenin's Library complex), Manezhnaya Square (from 1967 to 1991 renamed after the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution Square)
01:48 - building of State Duma now, but then the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) 
01:50 - Hotel "Moskva" (destroyed and rebuilt) 
Gorky Street (Tverskaya): (01:51) building of Mossovet (Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies) at Tverskaya, 13, the House of Moscow Governor-General, (01:57) Triumfalnaya Square with Mayakovskiy monument, (02:02) Hotel Pekin (Beijing)
02:04 - Novodevichy Convent
02:22 - Moscow State University
Taras Shevchenko Embankment: (02:27) Hotel Ukraina and the under construction building of The House of the Soviets of RSFSR (White House), (02:30) Kalinin Prospekt (now Novy Arbat Street) on the other side of the Moskva River 
02:33 - the building of COMECON (The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
02:36 - a conference-hall (now Concert Hall of Moscow Government)
02:44 - Oktyabr' Cinema with the movie "Cleopatra" (1963) poster
02:47 - Church of St. Simeon Stylites (built between 1676 and 1679)
02:49 - Two buildings of nowadays' Rossotrudnichestvo (The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation): the residence (the Shakhovskies, the Krause, the Osiposovskies Minor and The Arseny Morozov House - then The House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries)
02:56 - Borovitskiye Gates of the Moscow Kremlin
03:01 - The Moscow Manege (on the left) and Manezhnaya Square with Hotel Moskva
03:14 - The House of the Unions
03:10 and 03:17 - The Bolshoi Theatre
03:25 - Tsum Store & Maly Theatre on Teatral'ny Proyezd (then part of Prospekt Marx)
03:27 - Dzerzhinsky monument on Lubyanka Square (overturned in August 1991, but survived and set up in the Cental House of Artists near Park Kultury now)
03:28 - Komsomol'skaya Square, aka "The Three-Railway-stations" Square: Leningradskiy (on the left of the shot at 03:29), Yaroslavskiy (on the right and further) and Kazansky Railway Station (at 03:37 as well)
03:46 - a wedding ceremony in Aleksandrovsky Garden near The Kremlin Wall at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
03:59 - the KREMLIN (Sobornaya Square with the churches on it, the Tsar-Bell, the Tsar-Cannon; overview of Arsenal, Troitskaya Tower, The State Kremlin Palace)
05:24 - Hotel Rossiya (destroyed)
05:32 - overview near the hotel on Varvarka (then Razina) Dtreet: Church of the Theotokos of the Sign (Znamensky Monastery), Сhurch of St. George on Pskov Hill 
05:49 - Church of Saint Maximus the Confessor

VDNKh (All-Russian Exhibition Center):
06:00 - Main Entrance
06:06 - Main Exhibition Hall
06:12 - Soviet Press Pavilion
06:18 - Soviet Culture Pavilion
06:22 - Tu-154 (destroyed), Yak-42 and "Vostok 8K72K" Rocket near Cosmos Pavilion
06:33 - The Stone Flower fountain
06:46 - The Friendship of Nations fountain

A Moskva River cruise:
06:54 - The Kremlin Wall
07:03 - Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
07:30 - administrative building at Frunzenskaya Embankment, 20
07:39 - Luzhniki sport complex (still under construction for 1980 Olympic Games)
07:42 and 07:48 - Lenin Stadium (now "Luzhniki") at that time under reconstruction
07:45 - "Leninskiye Gory" (now "Vorobyovy Gory" metro-bridge-station)
07:57 - Krasnoluzhsky Railway Bridge (later moved 2 km up the Moskva River and turned into a pedestrian bridge)
08:06 - Moscow State University
08:09 - Novodevichy Convent (at that time under reconstuction for 1980 Olympic Games).

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