A Russian science fiction film depicting the history of early rocket club experiments in Russia. Scientists watch equipment on which pictures related to the space appear. Three men are sent into the space in a rocket.
A Russian science fiction film depicting the history of early rocket club experiments in Russia. A huge manned scientific space station assembled above the earth shows the facilities for and work of the people aboard. People aboard the space station work and look out into the space. A man and a woman talk. A woman enters a room. She switches on a television like equipment and watches women dancing ballet. A cat seated on a table. Two women astronauts tour a greenhouse room filled with living plants in the spaceship.
Construction of a dam on the Volga River in Russia. The dam is constructed for undertaking the Volga Hydroelectric Project. Men working at the construction site. Large pyramid shaped concrete blocks are dumped into the river.
Activities of German soldiers in Russia during World War II. A map shows places. German infantry advance towards a front. The soldiers move into trenches. Smoke rises due to firing and bombardment. German soldiers fire rifles from a trench. A soldier watches enemy action through binoculars. Trees in the foreground. Artillery is fired at advancing Russian infantry tanks. Self propelled guns are moved up.
Russian cosmonaut Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov enters space capsule of Voskhod-2 rocket in the Soviet Union. The spacecraft launch as it leaves the launching pad. Animation (only) depicts the activities of the cosmonaut and the co-pilot, and Cosmonaut Leonov on first manned spacewalk with the help of a life line attached to the spacecraft. No actual spacewalk images are shown. Narrator alludes to 1960's "space race" between astronauts of the United States and the Soviet Union, saying, "If this spectacular accomplishment is all that is claimed, Russia has moved ahead of the U.S. once more in the race for the moon."
Group of Russians swim in a swimming hole around icy surface in Russia. Russian men and women swim in a swimming hole on the surface of a frozen river. They splash water and swim across the hot water. Spectators watch them.