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Events on the Eastern front early in World War II; Nazi Germany battles Russia

Goosestepping German troops on the march and German Panzer I tanks moving in formation across a field in World War 2. A formation of German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch airplanes in flight overhead, accompanied by two He-111 bombers. German paratroopers jumping from Ju-52 aircraft. Grand Admiral Erich Johann Albert Raeder head of the German Navy, making a statement. Bucolic scenes of European farm country and grape vineyards, with local people harvesting crops and grapes. Soviet troops marching on parade to a military band on the sidelines in Red Square, Moscow, soviet Union. Soviet motorcycle soldiers armed with light machine guns. Soviet T-26 light tanks in formation. Glimpse of Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral and other famous buildings. Soviet troops crossing a river on inflated boats. A long column of T-26 tanks moving along a dirt road. Sky filled with variety of Soviet warplanes, including four-engine bombers (with fixed landing gear) to bi-wing aircraft. Soviet paratroopers jumping from a Tupolev ANT-6 bomber. They climb out on the huge corrugated wing and slide off. View out past the tail of an ANT-6 bomber. Soviet Union and Japan conclude a neutrality pact. Views of the pact being signed by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov for the Soviet Union and by Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka and Ambassador Yoshitsugu, for the Japanese, in Moscow on April 13, 1941. Joseph Stalin is observing in the center of the scene.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072841
Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev congratulates cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Moscow following 1st manned space flight

A welcome for Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Moscow, Russia after his successful first voyage into space by a human, orbiting the earth in his Vostok spacecraft. Yuri Gagarin arrives at an airfield in Moscow. Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev greets Gagarin. A large crowd holds pictures and banners. Gagarin reports to Premier Khrushchev. The Premier greets and congratulates Gagarin . Then Gagarin greets his wife. Gagarin and the Premier move through the streets in a motorcade as people of Moscow, Russia, line the streets to cheer his achievement. A helicopter showers flowers on the motorcade, celebrating the Russian achievement during "space race" between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Date: 1961, April
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675055826
Battle of Stalingrad during Christmas and New Year, 1942, and continuing until February 2, 1943

The final struggle for Stalingrad during World War Two. Christmastime, 1942 in Moscow. Russian civilians obtaining fir trees for Christmas celebrations. A large beautifully decorated Christmas tree set up in the Hall of Pillars, in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Men and women couples dancing in the hall to music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Smiling Russian children at play indoors, on slides, on a carousel ride, and playing hand games with one another. New Year's eve is different. World War 2 Soviet war production workers in a munitions factory greet each other but continue working without stopping. On the Stalingrad front lines, the Soviet Army marks the New Year, 1943, by launching artillery barrages, through the night and continuing unabated well into the next day. Russian Sukhoi Su-2 light bombers drop incendiaries on German positions. Brief partial glimpse of a Russian Sherman tank. Soviet Army soldiers using flame throwers. Soviet troops moving across ice and snow on armed Aerosan ice gliders. Batteries of Soviet Katusha rockets fire barrages. Soviet infantry and tanks advance across vast barren snow-covered terrain. Animated map depicts Nazi German military forces being pounded on several fronts. A solitary horse standing in midst of Stalingrad destruction and ruins. Scene from February 2, 1943 as Soviet soldiers, symbolically, fire the last shot in the Battle of Stalingrad. A smiling Soviet soldier then places a cover over the muzzle of the field artillery piece. Scenes of the battle's aftermath. Russian officers hug one another. The Soviet Union flag is hung from a city building. Numerous German soldiers surrender under a white flag of truce. Many surrendering German Generals are seen.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041529
Construction of a new Subway Line in Moscow, Soviet Russia.

Post-war subway condtruction in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Brief view of cars driving along street, followed by scenes of subway workers in tunnel, 165 feet below the surface. The tunnel ceiling and walls are reinforced by shoring structures. A power shovel dumps dug out rock and earth into an open rail car where a worker packs it with a long-handled tool. Drillers at the tunnel face use pneumatic tools to dig through sedimentary layers of material. A man and woman push a rail car full of diggings through the tunnel. A surveyor uses a transit suspended from the ceiling by a wire. A woman fastens a thin rope to a light cable. Back at the face of the excavation, drillers stop and one calls out to others drilling from the opposite end (unseen). The drillers then commence again, and break through the remaining wall separating the two ends of the tunnel. Drillers from the opposite sides greet one another and celebrate the completion of this 12 mile segment of the subway tunnel.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054035
The Nikolskaya Tower, the Spasskaya Tower, Lenin's Tomb and former Soviet Parliament building at Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

Tourists visit Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of the Nikolskaya Tower, Kremlin Arsenal and the Spasskaya Tower at the Moscow Red Square (Red Square, 3, Moscow, Russia, 109012). The tourists stand in front of Lenin's Tomb (Red Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 109012). Former Soviet Parliament building in the background.

Date: 1970
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073445
Trio of musicians including David Oistrakh during a musical concert at Lomonosov State University in Moscow, Russia

Postwar Russian in 1946. Musicians perform at the Lomonosov State University in Moscow, Russia. Violin master and virtuoso David Fyodorovich Oistrakh plays together with a pianist and a young man violinist. Views of the trio as they play part of the Allegro movement from the J.S. Bach Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo in D Minor, BWV 1043. Views of the pianist and his sheet music. Close-ups of David Oistrakh as he plays, and of the boy playing violin beside him.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675056632