A Russian science fiction film depicts the return of a proposed reusable space ship vehicle in the Soviet Union. A satellite gives signals about the space vehicle. Civilians listen to the news about the space vehicle at the conclusion of its trip to the moon. The manned space vehicle returns, flying in for an aircraft style water landing. Officers watch the landing through their binoculars. A boat moves towards the space vehicle. The astronauts aboard the boat. (An early concept for what became the future Space Shuttle program of NASA).
Austria is liberated to independent self rule by the occupying nations, post World War 2. Exterior of Upper Belvedere Palace building in Vienna, Austria. Troops of the occupying nations parade. A large crowd gathers for celebrating the independence after Austrian State Treaty agrement. The flags of the big four occupying powers, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union, being lowered from the flag poles and the flag of Austria is raised. Officials stand amidst the crowd, including brief close up views of Theodor Körner, the President of Austria, and Julius Raab, the Chancellor of Austria. People cheering and celebrating.
37th anniversary of Soviet Army and Navy celebrated on February 22nd at Central Soviet Army theater in Moscow. Exterior of 2nd Soviet Army theater. Soviet Army and Navy Marshals, Generals and Admirals attend this event and are seated in the theater. Presiding committee include Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev , Marshal Vasilevsky and other ministers. The meeting is opened by USSR Defense Minister, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who congratulates Soviet Army and Navy on their 37th anniversary. Soviet Army and Navy were established by Congress party. The audience applaud. Speeches of Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the communist party, Ivan Marchenko; by the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League, and by Hero of Socialist Labor and chairman of the Lenin Collective Farm, Ivan Yubanov. At the end of the event, Marshal Zhukov delivers thanksgiving speech.
The first Cold War era USSR two-stage hydrogen bomb, the RDS-37, detonates at the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site. Multiple thin mushroom clouds form before a larger, thicker ring-shaped cloud forms in dark red sky.
Soviet Cold War nuclear bomb testing at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh SSR. Mushroom cloud forms from pillar of thick smoke following test blast of nuclear weapon.