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Soviet army in military maneuvers with infantry, lancers, field artillery, and tanks.

Red Army troops training with camouglaged 76K/02 field guns. View of gunner using gun sight behind the shield of a 122 mm howitzer M1910/30, as another gun crew member inserts a round into it. The gun is fired. View of the breech area including the gun sight. Russian lancers on horseback, canter in formation past the camera. Soviet MS-1 (T-18) light tanks and some infantry move past the camera. A twin-turreted armored gun railroad car is in the background. Brief glimpse of a British-manufactured Russian Mark 4 Female tank, number 9085. Scene shifts to the 76K/02 field artillery battery firing again. Next, infantry are seen practicing along with the previously seen Mk 4 tank (No. 9085) and another similar tank.

Date: 1920
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053621
Various gatherings of soldiers and civilians being addressed by leaders and politicians in Red Square, Soviet Union.

Contingent of Soviet Army soldiers walking informally, before a crowd in Red Square. The Kremlin walls are seen in background. Two of the soldiers pull very small wheeled guns behind them. Closeup of a uniformed military band playing. A prize banner for a military unit is displayed. Leon Trotsky, head of the Red Army, speaks following the presentation of the banner (presentation not seen). The commander of the awardee unit speaks in turn. A politician speaks to a crowd of mostly civilians. Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet champion of women's causes, speaks from a wooden stand erected beneath the Kremlin wall.

Date: 1924
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053623
German troops attack Soviet Union (WW2)

World War II on the Russian Front. View as German troops advance near bombed out buildings. fight on streets. View of destroyed city and a bridge over water. Smoke rises up in the sky due to explosions. German soldiers stand on hills. Ships in water. German Tank moving across wheat fields. Smoke and explosion due to bombardment. German bombers in flight. Aerial view of the Russian villages. Bombs being dropped on city. German Pilot in cockpit of aircraft. Soldiers, jeeps and tanks move along a road. German artillery fires. Damaged villages. Russian women mourn for soldiers killed in battle. Dead bodies of Russian soldiers.

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053676
Horticultural activities in Georgia and Tajikistan, USSR

A Soviet horticulturist conducts outdoor classes demonstrating how to prepare small sapling fruit trees for planting. His audience is a group of villagers in the Georgia, USSR. Trees in full flowering bloom are seen in background. The scene shifts to Tajikistan, USSR, where men work with pickaxes preparing irrigation channels and planting trees in a vast, otherwise barren region. Farmers carry sapling trees to the project and plant them in the bottom of a deep (dry) irrigation channel.

Date: 1949
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675054030
Extracting salt from Lake Lake Baskunchak in the Soviet Union (USSR)

Salt being extracted from the surface of Lake Lake Baskunchak, 270 km North of the Caspian Sea, USSR. Narrator says it is sufficient for the needs of the entire Soviet Union. View of waves rippling over salt deposits in a part of the Russian lake. A dredging-type tool spins as it grinds and extracts salt from the lake surface. A conveyer system carrying the extracted salt to rail cars. A woman inside a control shack, on a railroad car, controls the speed of the conveyer with a large wheel. Salt is seen clearly deposited on the conveyer panels as they rise. View from below, of the control shack and water being discharged back into the lake from a pipe. View of the conveyer, mounted on its rail car, emptying salt into a train of open rail cars on a parallel set of tracks. At the same time water flows from its discharge pipe, on the opposite side, back into the lake. Finally, a locomotive is seen pulling rail cars filled with salt.

Date: 1946
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054036
Opening of fountains at Peterhof (Petrodvorets) on August 25, 1946, after their restoration from destruction in World War II

Film opens showing devastated snow-covered remains of Peterhof Palace and its fountains, in Leningrad, after the Russians ended the siege of that city in January, 1944 of World War II. The next scenes show crowds gathered on 25 August, 1946, to celebrate the newly restored fountains, which are seen spraying water again. (Narrator notes that Russians now call the place Petrodvorets, meaning Peter's Palace.) An official speaks, at the ceremony, about the architecture of Petrodvorets and its cultural masterpieces still to be restored. Glimpse of statuary and array of fountains. Closeup of several young women holding flowers. Another shot of the fountains spraying along both sides of a central pond, with spectators crowded along the extreme sides near lines of trees.

Date: 1946, August 25
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054039